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Ageing, durians and epidemic: Swiss Re’s Murray has plenty on his mind
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Fifteen years ago, when Mr Paul Murray arrived in Asia, insurance markets in the region were in a development phase.
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In the years he used to live in Singapore, Mr Paul Murray would often watch the elderly move around Ghim Moh Market, one of his favourite haunts in the city. Over the years, there seemed to be more of the aged folk – an observation relevant to his work as CEO for the life and health division at reinsurance giant Swiss Re.
Mr Murray was not wrong. Singapore’s old-age support ratio
