Overview – China’s Insurance Industry In Jan-Nov 2005 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News)
China’s insurance industry raked in premiums totaling 454.813 billion yuan (US$56 billion) in the first eleven months of 2005, up 13.83 per cent year-on-year, according to statistics published by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC).

Long-term care is hub of insurers’ next pitch (The Charlotte Observer)
Insurers are ramping up efforts to sell long-term-care insurance, offering new products and forging alliances with employers to make the policies more widely available in the workplace.

Inverted yield curve: good for insurers? (CNN Money)
Possible recession, but there may be more investors, some industry mergers, according to analysts.

ING, Manulife Concerned About China’s Pension Plans (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — ING Groep NV, Manulife Financial Corp. and other overseas insurers are concerned they may be shut out of China’s corporate pension industry, a nascent market expected to grow by 100 billion yuan ($12 billion) a year.

OVERVIEW – CHINA’S INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN JAN-NOV 2005 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
Health / Pharmaceuticals China’s insurance industry raked in premiums totaling 454.813 billion yuan (US$56 billion) in the first eleven months of 2005, up 13.83 per cent year-on-year, according to statistics published by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC).