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Definitive non-life insurance market intelligence

Axco Insurance Market Reports offer a uniquely detailed and comprehensive insight into the global non-life (P&C) insurance industry, combining the legislative and regulatory requirements, insurance market developments, and insurance market statistics of over 170 territories worldwide. Reports are set out market by market and follow an easy to navigate, consistent format for ease of use.

Provide detail on compliance requirements and facilitate risk assessment

Axco's Insurance Market Reports contain essential insurance regulation and tax compliance information, including non-admitted positions, compulsory insurance classes, insurance taxes, tariffs and charges, and the fines and penalties that may apply for contraventions of local legislation and regulation.

Information is also provided on company registration and operating requirements, including types of licence, capital requirements, limits on foreign ownership and solvency margins. Focused line of business information is supplied to assist in the assessment of risk, with detailed information on ratings and deductibles, scope of cover, loss experience, and trends in court awards. Data on natural hazards is also provided.

A comprehensive guide to the global life insurance industry

Axco's Life & Benefits Insurance Market Reports provide a uniquely detailed and comprehensive overview of life and health insurance markets across the globe, combining the legislative and regulatory requirements, insurance market developments, and insurance market statistics of over 170 territories worldwide. Reports are set out on a market by market basis and follow an easy to navigate, consistent format for ease of use.

Compliance requirements, social security and local benefits practice

Axco Life & Benefits reports offer essential insurance regulation and tax compliance information as well as detail on company registration and operating requirements, including types of licence, capital requirements, limits on foreign ownership, and solvency margins. Reports also supply information on social security schemes, mandatory schemes and local benefits practice.

Detailed global insurance data

Axco's Global Statistics database presents detailed statistical information on the insurance markets and insurance companies of over 180 territories worldwide.  Both current and historical insurance statistics are provided for non-life (P&C), life and benefits, personal accident and healthcare markets, and Global Statistics can be used on its own or in conjunction with other Axco products to give a comprehensive picture of insurance markets across the globe.  

Market Statistics

Axco Global Statistics supplies data on written premiums, year on year growth, technical results including loss ratios and combined ratios, and more.  Both current and historical statistics are provided, with current figures shown on a quarterly basis where available and over 20 years of historical data presented for many territories. 

Global Statistics covers non-life (P&C), life and benefits, personal accident and healthcare insurance markets, detailing all classes and subclasses where available and providing full market breakdowns according to supervisory reports.  Axco standardises figures and translates information to provide consistency for subscribers' ease of use, and all statistics are delivered in a clear and accessible format that allows subscribers to easily compare and contrast insurance data across markets.

Delivering global non-life (P&C) insurance regulations and taxes at a glance

Axco's Compliance Online database supplies insurance professionals with key regulatory and tax compliance information for all major lines of non-life business in over 170 territories across the globe.

The database offers a comprehensive, customisable compliance overview of multiple markets, with the facility to view line of business-specific regulation.  Using a Question & Answer structure with topics compiled from clients' most frequently asked compliance questions, Compliance Online gives users the essential information relevant to their individual regulatory requirements.

Time-saving efficiencies and concise, focused information

Compliance Online has been developed to deliver business-critical insurance data in a timely and user-friendly way, allowing subscribers to customise and filter data according to their needs.  Information is provided on a line of business basis and can be viewed by territory or regulatory topic.  Up to three different lines of business can be compared simultaneously, including:

• Accident & Health
• Casualty
• Environmental Liability
• Professional Liability
• Auto Liability
• Credit
• Fidelity
• Property
• Aviation
• Directors' & Officers' Liability
• Financial Lines
• Surety
• Boiler & Machinery
• Employers' Liability
• General liability
• Workers' Compensation
• CAR/EAR
• Energy
• Marine

The definitive compliance solution for the international insurance industry

Compliance Point combines Axco's established expertise in insurance regulation with an intuitive taxes and charges calculation tool to help insurers, reinsurers, brokers and insureds assess the compliance status and mandatory taxes and charges of their unique insurance programmes. 

Compliance Point informs users as to whether they can write or place business in a particular location and automatically calculates the taxes and charges that will apply to do so, outlining who pays which charges and to whom.  

Accuracy and time-saving efficiencies

Ensuring that insurance programmes are fully compliant is a necessary part of doing insurance business today, but while keeping track of the many legislative, regulatory, supervisory and tax requirements across the globe can be both a challenging and time-consuming task, Compliance Point eases the burden and can help to improve workflow and enhance productivity. 

Compliance Point brings together all relevant compliance and tax data for over 260 territories and highlights any contradictions to provide insurance professionals with a single, regularly updated source of reliable compliance and tax information.  

Focused overview of clinical trials environments worldwide, with a dual delivery approach

Clinical Trials gives quick and easy access to up-to-date market-specific clinical trials information for over 170 territories around the world.  Concise information is provided on the insurance aspects of clinical trials, including details of legislative requirements, regulatory considerations, insurance coverage and procedural information. 

Information is set out market by market, using a dual delivery approach that allows subscribers to access data through Axco's Compliance Online database as well as to download extended clinical trials PDF reports.

Crucial compliance information

Clinical Trials provides essential insurance regulation and tax compliance information on non-admitted positions, insurance taxes, tariffs and charges, retentions, premium reserves, and dictates on policy language and currency.  Data is also provided on compulsory local pools, limits of indemnity and scope of cover, insurance certificate and coverage conditions, current and projected legislation, regulatory considerations, rules on multi-year policies, and standard reporting periods.  

Comprehensive and detailed analysis of employee benefits markets across the globe

Axco's Employee Benefits Reports form a comprehensive and reliable source of online insurance market intelligence for 69 territories worldwide.  Focusing on both developed and developing employee benefits markets, the reports provide a detailed overview of all key benefits in each of the territories covered, as well as vital emerging market information including political, economic and demographic developments.

Crucial compliance information

Reports deliver essential information on social security and 'typical practice' in each market, and help to identify potential shortfalls or over-provision in benefits by providing detail on: social security provision; mandatory schemes; employer-sponsored retirement; ill-health, medical, dependants' provision; and other plans or benefits, including stock options, company cars and more.

Benefits data is supplemented with detailed reference to plan types, eligibility, retirement ages, contribution rates, vesting requirements, taxation and other essential data.

Concise and current information on state and compulsory benefits and typical employer practice

Axco Country Benefits Profiles provide concise, focused information on employee benefits markets worldwide.  Covering 69 territories, the reports follow a clear and consistent format, allowing users to view mandatory benefits and typical employer practice side by side for each topic. 

Timely updates ensure that Axco supplies the most current information on employee benefits markets worldwide, and subscribers are assured of their access to the most relevant and accurate market data available. 

Crucial compliance information and key benefits

Profiles help subscribers to identify market-specific compliance requirements through the delivery of essential information on state and compulsory benefits and typical employer practice in each territory.  The details provided on: mandatory schemes; social security provision; employer-sponsored retirement; ill-health, medical, and dependants' provision; and other plans or benefits, can also assist users in detecting shortfalls or overprovision in the markets under review. 

As summaries of Axco's extended Employee Benefits Reports, Country Benefits Profiles cover topics including mandatory contributions, retirement, death in service benefits, short-term sickness, long-term disability, medical benefits, workers' compensation and termination indemnities. 

Focused information on non-life (P&C) and life and benefits insurance markets

CIMS Market Profiles deliver a summary of the Axco Non-Life and Life & Benefits Insurance Market Reports for over 170 territories. 

Profiles are researched, written and updated by experienced Axco consultants who regularly visit local supervisors, insurance associations, insurers, reinsurers and brokers in each of the territories covered, to secure vital information and provide market analysis.

Crucial compliance information and market facts

Profiles supply concise information on local insurance regulation and tax compliance and company registration and operating requirements, including non-admitted positions, compulsory insurance classes, taxes and charges, types of licence, and company financial criteria.  Reinsurance, distribution channels, captives, pools and multinationals, policy terms and conditions, natural hazards, social security schemes and local benefits practice are also covered.  

Key regulation, legislation, supervision and premium taxation developments

Axco Regulatory Alerts deliver monthly updates on recent and proposed developments in regulation, legislation, supervision and premium taxation.  The service includes both non-life and life market sectors and covers all territories included in Axco Insurance Market Reports. 

Written by experienced insurance specialists

Regulatory Alerts are written and verified by Axco's specialist consultant writers and in-house team of experienced research analysts.  The information provided draws on the most recent Insurance Market Report republications and updates, summarising changes and proposed changes in areas of compliance for subscribers' convenience. 

Monthly email alerts

Regulatory Alerts are delivered directly to subscribers on a monthly basis using an email service to alert subscribers to the territories that have been updated.  Subscribers can follow a link to access the information online, where an overview of all regulatory alerts for the current month is presented by territory and topic. 

Regulatory alerts can be viewed by territory or by month of occurrence, as users can select to view regulatory alerts dating back to January 2005. 

Subscribers can also easily switch between non-life and life and benefits market sectors and all alerts are delivered in a consistent format, categorised under key headings such as legislation, projected legislation, regulation, projected regulation, supervision, taxation, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and court rulings. 

Access to the Axco Regulatory Alerts archive

Subscriptions to Regulatory Alerts also include access to Axco's online archive of alerts, which dates back to 2005 for most territories.  Using the archive, subscribers can view all the key regulatory, legislative, supervisory and taxation developments that have occurred in any given territory in preceding years. 

A list of the most recently updated territories is presented alongside the archived information, and subscribers can also follow a link to the full Axco Insurance Market Report for a more comprehensive market overview. 

Axco does not undertake to include all international compliance developments as they occur.