Guy Carpenter’s CEO Forum 2026 in Hong Kong brought together nearly 50 C-suite leaders from across APAC to discuss the region’s evolving risk landscape.
This article from (Re)in Asia describes a clear message emerging from the forum: APAC’s growth story remains strong, but risks are evolving faster than organizations can develop resilience. For insurers and reinsurers, this creates urgency and opportunity. The challenge is not only to respond to individual threats but also to help clients navigate a more complex environment, shaped by climate volatility, technological disruption, changing workforce expectations, and geopolitical fragmentation.
Jeremy Goodman, Guy Carpenter’s Chief Client Growth Officer, pointed out how four themes are shaping the risk environment in the region:
Capital: Economic and geopolitical tensions, as well as accelerating changes in the climate, are creating stress on organizations’ capital. Competing political interests are causing geopolitical fragmentation around the world.
Technology: Advances in technology and the adoption of artificial intelligence will create winners and losers. The need to adapt and evolve with AI will accelerate.
People: As the workforce’s composition evolves, changing expectations and mobility are reshaping talent recruitment and retention strategies. Demographic shifts across Asia are also affecting skills availability and workforce planning.
Partnership: A significant protection gap and softening market conditions in the region create opportunities for businesses and the insurance industry to forge strong partnerships to solve risk challenges.