Takaful presents unique ALM challenge for insurers in Asia

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Meeting sharia requirements means the role of an insurer in the takaful market is a very different animal from conventional insurance. “We’re not really insurers, we’re operators. We operate the takaful fund on the behalf of the policy holders,” says Bert Paterson, chief executive of Sun Life Financial’s Indonesian operations in Jakarta.

What Paterson refers to here is that the insurer effectively becomes a takaful administrator – arranging unit-linked vehicles, which are typically composed of

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