AM Best Briefing at 2023 Singapore International Reinsurance Conference to Deliver Insights on Global and Regional Markets

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AM Best’s Insurance Market Briefing - Singapore International Reinsurance Conference (SIRC) will explore the state of the global and Asia-Pacific reinsurance markets on Tuesday, 31 October 2023 as part of the 19^th annual SIRC event.

The market briefing will take place at 2:00 p.m. (SGT) in the Heliconia Ballroom at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, the same location as the overall conference. During the briefing, senior analytical leaders from AM Best’s international offices will provide (re)insurance market insight. Discussion topics will include a global market update of reinsurance developments and reviews of Northeast and Southeast Asia reinsurance markets. In addition, National Scale Ratings, which AM Best recently introduced to Egypt, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, will be discussed. The National Scale Rating is a relative measure of the financial strength of insurers and reinsurers that are domiciled in the same country, and over time allow for greater differentiation among them. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.ambest.com/conference/SIRC2023/index.html.

The panel will be chaired by Rob Curtis, chief executive officer of AM Best’s Singapore operations. Panelists for the market briefing include:

• Greg Carter, managing director, analytics – EMEA & Asia Pacific;
• Stefan Holzberger, chief rating officer;
• Christie Lee, senior director, analytics – Northeast Asia; and
• Chris Lim, associate director, analytics – Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

AM Best’s market development team for Asia Pacific will be attending SIRC. To arrange a meeting at the conference to learn more about AM Best, its role in the insurance industry and the resources it offers to insurance professionals, including Best’s Credit Ratings, please contact Curtis, who also is head of market development for the Asia-Pacific region, at [e-mail], or KaiJun Chan, market development associate, at [e-mail].

SIRC, which is organised by the Singapore Reinsurers’ Association, is one of the leading annual global reinsurance industry events. This year’s event runs from 30 October to 2 November and is themed as “(Re)Insurance Reset.” For more information about the conference, please visit the event page and agenda.

AM Best is a contributing broadcast partner to the event, and AM BestTV will provide coverage of the conference. For daily reports and interviews, look for the SIRC-related playlist under the “Event Coverage 2023” tab at www.ambest.tv or visit www.ambest.tv/sirc23.

AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit www.ambest.com.

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