Conventional policies accounted for approximately 80% of total new foreign currency business.
Taiwan’s life insurance industry recorded a 39% year-on-year increase in new foreign-currency-denominated policy premiums to $10.4b (NT$330.9b) as of end-July 2026, up from $7.5b (NT$238.19b) a year earlier.
Traditional insurance products accounted for $8.3b (NT$265.01b), or about 80% of total premiums, marking a 31% increase from $6.3b (NT$202.49b) in the same period last year.
Investment-linked insurance products generated $2.1b (NT$65.89b) in premiums, up 85% from $1.1b (NT$35.7b) a year earlier.
These products represented about 20% of total new foreign-currency-denominated policy premiums.
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