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On March 9, 2009, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (“IAIS”) released an Issues Paper on Group-Wide Solvency Assessment and Supervision (the “Issues Paper”).  The purpose of the Issues Paper is to serve as a framework for the development of future papers providing guidance on group-wide solvency assessment and supervision on a global scale. 

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John Hughes and Machua Millett of EAPD have recently released an updated version of their whitepaper entitled Venture Capital, Private Equity and Hedge Funds: Structure and Risk Exposures.  The whitepaper leads the reader through the structure and characteristics of venture capital, private equity and hedge funds, presents the latest market trends in these areas and then discusses the risk exposures for such funds and related entities. 

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In addition to the requirements for an insurer to be authorised to carry on insurance (whether general business or long term business and whether as a direct insurer, composite insurer, reinsurer or captive insurer) in or from Hong Kong (as described in our companion guidance note on the “Authorisation of insurers in Hong Kong”) there are a number of continuing regulatory requirements that the insurer will need to satisfy on authorisation and thereafter. 

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An insurer involved in a dispute or proceeding outside China but in which a Chinese witness may need to give a deposition or statement cannot obtain that deposition or statement in China. China does not permit the taking of depositions or witness statements (even from willing witnesses) in China for a case pending overseas. However, such depositions and witness statements may be taken in Hong Kong. …

PwC published a report in September 2008, which gives an insight into how foreign insurance companies within the Chinese market view industry trends, the challenges they are facing and how they consider the insurance market in China will grow and evolve over the next three years. 

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