The InSight
Building a resilient workforce
HR professionals are looking for ways to increase ROI from existing benefits programmes, be it through improving employee engagement, enhancing benefits data management, and amplifying employee wellbeing.
Building a resilient workforce
Investment in wellbeing has risen in APAC in the recent years, but employers are introducing initiatives that do not align with what their employees need or want.
Navigating new forms of volatility
Understanding how climate phenomena affect weather is essential for predicting future conditions which can help the (re)insurance industry anticipate financial losses.
Building a resilient workforce
An inadequate focus on the right people strategy may compromise the success of M&A deals. HR teams must address the key people challenges that arise throughout the process.
Navigating new forms of volatility
Understanding the opportunities, benefits and limitations of captive mechanisms can help organisations make better decisions around strategic risk finance.
Navigating new forms of volatility|Rethinking access to capital
Credit solutions can enhance liquidity, improve transaction returns, and facilitate capital-efficient deal closures. Post-acquisition, credit solutions can also drive private equity value creation through working capital initiatives.
Building a resilient workforce
Effective succession planning is crucial for business continuity and long-term success, but many organisations neglect to invest in developing future leaders, only addressing the issue when a vacancy arises.
Navigating new forms of volatility
Regulation has the potential to influence product and service innovation as organisations seek to meet their climate-related financial risk management obligations.
Navigating new forms of volatility
With the capital markets continuing to be quiet compared to past years, private companies should consider using this time to do preparatory work for becoming publicly listed entities.
Navigating new forms of volatility
Natural disasters in the Asia Pacific region in 2022 amounted to a total loss of USD 80 billion. The extreme weather across the year highlights the continuing need to strengthen resilience to better protect our communities for the future.
Building a resilient workforce
With the ESG reporting landscape rapidly picking up pace, creating new risks and opportunities, organisations and boards need to ensure ESG preparedness and disclosure plans are on track to drive long-term sustainable growth.
Building a resilient workforce
Employers are struggling to align wage increases with inflation. However, with valuable insight into employees’ needs, compensation and benefits managers can make more informed decisions that support both the workforce and the organisation.
Building a resilient workforce
Offering diverse and inclusive employee benefits has become crucial for attracting and retaining sought-after skills from a wide talent pool. Build a more resilient and engaged workforce with the right mix of employee benefits.
Building a resilient workforce
In order to attract top talent in today’s unpredictable market, benefit plans need to offer flexibility, options and personalisation, while also addressing diverse needs.
Building a resilient workforce
A clear employee benefits strategy is vital for ensuring your benefits offer is competitive, compliant and valued by employees. However, a lack of data is making strategy development and decision making a challenge for many employers.
Building a resilient workforce
While ESG is often seen as a boardroom matter, HR professionals are in a unique position to deliver on the ‘social’ aspect, as investors want to know how companies are addressing issues such as employee health and wellbeing.
Building a resilient workforce
To compete for talent and remain authentic, HR teams need to leverage data to inform and update the employee value proposition.
Building a resilient workforce
As healthcare costs and medical inflation rise, employers are weighing up employee health and wellbeing benefits.
Building a resilient workforce
While the skills shortage and inflation are driving salaries up, there’s also a need to contain costs. Robust data is the key to a balanced and competitive compensation strategy.
Navigating new forms of volatility
Our expert panel discusses key market movements, cyber loss trends and expected conditions in 2023 in the Asia Pacific region.
Navigating new forms of volatility
High certainty in global warming science should not be confused with the inherent uncertainty in modelling the impacts of climate change on business operations. Read more
Navigating new forms of volatility
By treating disclosure as one important outcome from a broader exploration of climate-related risks and opportunities, organisations can realise far greater value. Read more
Navigating new forms of volatility
The complex inflationary environment is set to impact Asian economies in different ways, and in some instances may exacerbate underinsurance risks.
Navigating new forms of volatility
Climate change ambition without clear disclosure is no longer an option. Investors, stakeholders, and regulators are looking to understand how organisations are addressing climate-related risks.
Navigating new forms of volatility|Rethinking access to capital
A common reason for delays or failures for infrastructure projects is poor alignment on risk between stakeholders and inadequate risk allocation. Credit and political risk insurance can support success in sustainable development.
Navigating new forms of volatility
To complement traditional indemnity programs and to match capital to climate risk more adequately, organisations such as AboitizPower, are increasingly turning to parametric insurance solutions.
Navigating new forms of volatility
Can the new generation of catastrophe loss models present a truly holistic physical climate risk solution? Read more.
Building a resilient workforce
As COVID-19 becomes endemic and a new world of work is adopted across economies, how can leaders champion mental resilience within the business?
Navigating new forms of volatility|People & Organisations
As the scale of ESG-related expectation, opportunities and risks continue to expand, organisations would benefit from a transformational change rather than an incremental change. Learn more.
Navigating new forms of volatility
As catastrophic events increase in severity, how can you build your climate risk resilience and make the right decisions for your future?
Navigating new forms of volatility
The lack of risk management in M&A and divestiture planning could expose businesses across various industries to unnecessary risk. Learn more.
Navigating new forms of volatility|Rethinking access to capital
How can your business successfully adopt environmental, social, and governance (ESG) measures?
Navigating new forms of volatility
With business interruption being the top current risk in Asia, how can companies make better decisions to navigate and thrive in an increasingly complex environment?
Navigating new forms of volatility
With no end to the pandemic in sight, businesses must adopt refreshed risk management strategies to remain resilient amid prolonged uncertainty. Learn more.
Addressing the underserved|Risk & Innovation|Technology, Media, and Telecommunications|Financial Services
Digital-only banks are increasingly meeting the demand for innovative products and better customer experience for the digital age.
Navigating new forms of volatility|Building a resilient workforce|Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
How can banks ensure that their investment in digital transformation has a faster run rate on savings?
Building a resilient workforce|People & Organisations
Voluntary benefits can form a crucial part of employer value propositions and address the needs of a diverse workforce.
Building a resilient workforce|People & Organisations|Financial Services
APAC’s financial services organisations look to health benefit trends to manage rising costs in the new normal.
Addressing the underserved|Risk & Innovation
In a post-pandemic world shaped by digitisation, innovation, and social responsibility, how can business leaders prepare?
Rethinking access to capital|Capital & Economics|Financial Services
How are credit insurers supporting financial institutions in financing the green economy?
Building a resilient workforce|People & Organisations|Financial Services
How can businesses balance both the digital and people aspects of digital transformation in the “new better”?
Navigating new forms of volatility
How can businesses make workforce decisions to drive the Future of Work agenda while foreseeing how other parts of the organisation may be impacted?
Addressing the underserved|Risk & Innovation
One year on, have businesses in APAC reprioritised risk and resilience in the post-pandemic new world of work?
Navigating new forms of volatility|Risk & Innovation
What is the marine insurance position of the m/v EVER GIVEN and the vessels whose passage has been hindered?
Navigating new forms of volatility|Capital & Economics
How can oil producers start managing risk and building resilience today to succeed in a post-pandemic era?
Building a resilient workforce|People & Organisations
As economies across Asia begin to reopen, how can business leaders drive economic and employee value in the workplace of the future?
Building a resilient workforce|People & Organisations
As economies begin to reopen after the COVID-19 lockdowns, how can businesses prepare for the future of pay in a new world of work?
Rethinking access to capital|Capital & Economics
How can risks can be negotiated to create successful M&As in the dynamic energy industry?
Building a resilient workforce|People & Organisations
In a post-pandemic economy, how can businesses achieve an optimal pay structure that delivers maximum value for organisations and workers?
Navigating new forms of volatility
How can leaders in the Philippines address pandemic business challenges as a result of tiered quarantine measures?
