insurance

SINGAPORE (Apr 25): Despite long-running investor expectations of a spike in volatility, professional fund buyers are remaining split over the consequent impact on their portfolios.

SINGAPORE (Apr 11): Financial services provider Allianz says it has invested US$35 million ($45.8 million) in Indonesian ride-hailing platform Go-Jek through its digital investment unit, Allianz X.

SINGAPORE (Jan 2): DBS Bank and Chubb, the world’s largest publicly-traded property & casualty insurance company, have launched a 15-year regional general insurance distribution partnership agreement in Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

SINGAPORE (Sept 26): Maybank Kim Eng is maintaining its “hold” recommendation on OCBC Bank with an unchanged price target of $11.05 pending further details of reduced stakes in the Malaysian business of its 87.9%-owned insurance arm, Great Eastern Hol

SINGAPORE (Sept 19): Singapore’s Great Eastern Holdings is said to have engaged at least one Malaysian bank to explore selling its stake in its Malaysian operations for as much as US$1 billion ($1.35 billion).

(July 20): Overseas insurers including Prudential Plc are pursuing plans to sell stakes in their Malaysian units, in deals that could raise at least a combined US$2 billion ($2.74 billion) and help them comply with foreign ownership limits, people with kn

SINGAPORE (July 11): Overseas Assurance Corporation (OAC), the general insurance arm of OCBC’s 87%-owned subsidiary Great Eastern Holdings, has been rebranded as Great Eastern General Insurance (GEG) in Singapore. 

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (June 27): Senate Republicans’ plan to replace Obamacare will increase the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million, raise costs for many people currently enrolled in private insurance and slash Medicaid by billions of dollars, ac

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (June 15): China’s billionaires are learning yet again that wealth and power are no longer enough to keep them out of trouble.