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Life Report

Product Insurance Market Reports Life Rev Brunei

Key Highlights

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  • Key insights and explanations of market developments in life insurance, healthcare and pensions
  • Details Brunei's insurance, social security, pensions and healthcare regulatory framework and company and personal tax considerations
  • Current legislation and upcoming changes
  • The latest developments in Brunei's economic and political environment
  • Demographic information
  • Market statistics and company performance

Report Overview

Independent strategic insight, line of business detail, regulatory information & market data for the non-life (P&C) insurance market of Brunei

The Brunei life and benefits market report provides a comprehensive, impartial analysis of the life insurance market of Brunei.  Information extends to extensive detail on healthcare (public and private), pensions and benefits, and social security. Specialist researchers visit Brunei and interview local professionals working across the local market. The report is updated with new information and data regularly throughout the cycle of country visits.

The report provides information about Brunei’s demographic profile and assesses its economic, political, climate, operational, and security risks. Key data on the investment environment in Brunei is available.

Axco’s report describes the regulatory framework that applies to the Brunei domestic life insurance sector, including whether non-admitted insurance is permitted in Brunei; as well as the legislation necessary to know regarding Brunei’s healthcare, pensions and social security.

Statistics include five years of life insurance market performance indicators, including gross written premiums, premium growth and penetration rates. Company statistics show who are the leading life insurance companies in Brunei with local life insurance company premiums, market share and year on year growth.

Life Insurance

Axco provides details on the life insurance sector including Bruneian market participants, reinsurance and distribution channels. The reports describe classes of business from both individual and group life such as whole life, endowment, term life and unit-linked.
Information on non-life classes for example critical illness and private medical insurance.

Healthcare

The report describes the public and private healthcare system in Bruneian, the scope of cover, accessibility financing and provides an analysis of how the public and private systems complement each other.

Pensions

Axco reports on the three pillars of Bruneian pension provision.

  • State pension benefits including benefit calculations and eligibility criteria 
  • Workplace pension provision; types of schemes calculations eligibility and; tax implications
  • Voluntary individual pension provision, type of products and tax implications

Social Security

The Brunei report provides an in-depth analysis of the regulatory framework governing social security as well as details on financing and eligibility. Information includes but is not limited to

  • state pensions,
  • permanent disability benefit
  • occupational accident and disease
  • maternity and paternity payments 

Brunei Life and Benefits Report Extract

Below are brief extracts of information from the Brunei Life & Benefits Report; more updated information may be available in the latest published report.

Life Insurance

Brunei's economy remains based on energy and the depressed price of oil has a direct negative effect on that sector. This, in turn, impacts on the government's revenues and has a knock-on effect on local companies and individuals, resulting in little or no growth of the insurance exposure base.

Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic has had only a minor effect on the local insurance market in terms of claims, as there have been only a small number of infections, the wider economy has suffered. This has resulted in lower sales revenues for many local companies and consequent ....

Pensions

The levels of benefits provided by the TAP provident fund (Employees' Trust Fund) and SCP, are such that very few private company pension schemes have been established and there is no private pension legislation. A separate scheme takes care of government employees.

Expatriate workers and, in some cases, senior local staff employed by foreign companies, are likely to be covered by pension plans placed offshore, having no impact on the domestic life market.

Healthcare

The state healthcare system is comprehensive and almost free: there continues to be little demand for individual private medical insurance (PMI). Most of those who do take out PMI cover are expatriates, who may prefer to look to Singapore or further afield for medical treatment.

In all, private healthcare plans are estimated to represent just over 1% of all private healthcare spending. Local sources suggest that most wealthy Bruneians who need private treatment prefer to pay for ....

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