The 12th Annual Middle East Insurance Forum will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2016 at the Gulf Hotel Bahrain with the strategic support of the Central Bank of Bahrain and in partnership with the leading insurance companies of the region. The Forum will gather over 400 insurance professionals from across the world comprising of policy makers, dignitaries, central bank representatives, heads of insurance supervision, CEOs of the largest insurance operators, thought leaders and experts in research, bankers, academia and Shariah scholars.

The regional insurance industry’s flagship platform announced today the nominees for the MEIF Institutional Excellence Awards.

The MEIF Institutional Excellence Awards have been designed on the basis of a robust methodology which takes into account key financial metrics and provides industry participants an objective peer-to-peer ranking. The data employed in creating the assessment framework has been collated from the Thomson Reuters EIKON database. The categories of the awards include: 3 Middle East Awards (Overall, Life and Non-Life) and 2 Regional Awards (Overall GCC, Overall Levant).

The MEIF Institutional Excellence Awards represents MEIF’s commitment to provide an objective and quantitative approach in assessing insurance performance.

The nominees for the 12thannual Middle East Insurance Awards are:

Best Performing Insurance Company – Middle East (Overall)

Al Ahleia Insurance Co SAKP – Kuwait

Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik AS – Turkey

Bahrain National Holding Co BSC - Bahrain

Qatar General Insurance and Reinsurance Co SAQ - Qatar

Qatar Islamic Insurance Co QSC – Qatar

Best Performing Insurance Company – Middle East (Life)

Al Dhafra Insurance Co PSC

Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik AS

Bahrain National Holding Co BSC

Euro Arab Insurance Group PSC

Ras Al Khaimah National Insurance Co PSC

Best Performing Insurance Company – Middle East (Non-Life)

Qatar General Insurance and Reinsurance Co SAQ

Al Ahleia Insurance Co SAKP

Qatar Islamic Insurance Co QSC

Dubai Insurance Co PSC

Arabian Scandinavian Insurance Co PLC

Best Performing Insurance Company – GCC (Overall)

Al Ahleia Insurance Co SAKP - Kuwait

Bahrain National Holding Co BSC - Bahrain

Dubai Insurance Co PSC – UAE

Qatar General Insurance and Reinsurance Co SAQ - Qatar

Qatar Islamic Insurance Co QSC - Qatar      

Best Performing Insurance Company – Levant (Overall)

Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik AS – Turkey

Euro Arab Insurance Group PSC - Jordan

First Insurance Co PSC - Jordan

Islamic Insurance Co PSC - Jordan

Jerusalem Insurance Co PSC - Jordan

The Awards will be delivered at a high profile Gala Luncheon in the Gulf Hotel in Bahrain on the 2nd of February.

To find out more about MEIF, visit www.meif2016.com.