Sun Life insures future in Asia with digital rollout

The Canadian insurer is hiring data analysts, sealing partnerships and taking lessons from Chinese fintech firms in ways to embed itself into people’s lives.

Sun Life Financial’s chief executive Dean Connor and his right-hand man in Asia, Kevin Strain, went earlier this year to sit down with China’s Tencent, one of the biggest internet and gaming companies in the world, to talk about selling insurance to China’s burgeoning middle class.

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