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With record issuances and strong Mainland Chinese support, Hong Kong is emerging as a global powerhouse for insurance-linked securities.

Hong Kong is positioning itself as a market leader for insurance-linked securities (ILS), leveraging its financial infrastructure, regulatory support and connectivity to Mainland China.

Taiping Reinsurance's issuance of Asia's first dual-perils, dual-triggers catastrophe bond represents not just a milestone transaction, but signals the dawn of a more sophisticated approach to disaster risk transfer in the region.

The pension fund assigned a $50 million allocation into the alternatives asset class in December, and appointed three companies to operate it.