Increased market volatility linked to rising trade tensions, elevated geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty and weaker corporate creditworthiness weighed on global financial conditions in the first half of 2018, according to Moody's Investors Service.
Saving, investing, and planning for retirement can be an exercise in futility if an individual lacks the know-how that is required to be successful, according to the seventh annual Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey.
Unhappy agency leaders from Prudential Singapore has sent a formal petition to the insurer's headquarters in Asia and to the British insurer's London office.
Sixty-nine percent of consumers in Asia expressed confidence in being able to retire and live the lifestyle they wanted, while only 50% of American consumers had that level of confidence, according to LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute (LIMRA SRI) which recently compared consumers' retirement readiness in Asia and the US.
Remember the day you made up your mind to enter the insurance industry? What were the promises you made?
There is no one-size-fits-all for the globally prevalent problem of providing security for ageing populations, according to a discussion by a panel of experts at the Global Insurance Forum in Berlin.
To gain the most out of MDRT membership, it should not be viewed as just an achievement of a production requirement. Rather, members must embody the essence of MDRT and embrace its mission and core principles. New members that understand how to "Be MDRT" are at the start of a successful future, said James D Pittman, CLU, CFP, President of MDRT, in an interview with Asia Advisers Network.
BetterTradeOff, a technology service company founded in Singapore in 2015, walked away with the DIAmond award at Digital Insurance Agenda, Amsterdam. It one of 6 winners among more than 50 participating insurtechs.
Stand a chance to win an exclusive trip to meet Spurs players and watch a match live at Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium in London.
Career or family often feels like a choice forced upon us. This is especially true for females, and even more so mothers, said Agnes Ng, Rookie Insurance Agency Leader of the Year 2018.
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