After a decade of low interest rates and loose money supply, asset managers within Asia’s insurance businesses now have to face the unknown perils of quantitative tightening. The prospect of rising US interest rates, the Fed shrinking its balance sheet and the ECB ending its bond buying spree look set to impact almost every asset class the world over.

Already 2018 is looking like the worst year for credit markets since the global financial crisis – with US corporate bond yields reaching an eight-year high. Meanwhile equity markets are being rattled by the fall in the price of oil and the prospect of a US-China trade war.

The Asia Insurance Review investment summit will look at winning strategies and asset classes to make sure that the asset managers of the region’s insurers have the tools to be prepared for whatever else quantitative tightening might bring.