Asian insurers recoil from structured products

Institutional and regulatory barriers blamed for poor take-up of derivatives by life companies

hong-kong
Life insurers in Hong Kong are conservative

Asian insurers are put off investing in structured products by a deep-seated suspicion of the asset class among their boards of directors and by high regulatory capital charges, delegates heard at the Structured Products Asia conference in Hong Kong.

Recommending such investments can even be a career risk for employees, according to one speaker.

Board members still remember the heavy losses some of the region's insurance companies suffered on their portfolios of collateralised debt obligations

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