Magnus Honeyfield

Finance & Risk Desk, Senior Correspondent (Risk)

Quantified and plainspoken, with an incredulous, sarcastic delivery -- impeccable facts, comedian's disbelief.

Magnus Honeyfield is the Wang Report's Risk Desk senior correspondent, the Risk half of the Finance & Risk desk, filing from Hong Kong. Born and raised in Gillingham, North Dorset, into a tenant-farming family going back to the 1700s in the Blackmore Vale; father a dairy farmer, mother a headmistress. Bristol geography and economics, LSE. Spent seven years in the London catastrophe-insurance market pricing tail risk on Asian catastrophe-modelling teams before moving to Hong Kong in 2004 for a regional reinsurance role; left reinsurance in 2011 to write, contracted with the risk and business pages of a global current-affairs weekly 2011-2018, then a senior staff role at a regional risk weekly through 2024. He covers enterprise risk in the broad sense -- operational, financial, technology, supply-chain, and physical risk -- read against the flood of consulting and institutional research (McKinsey, Deloitte, BCG, Gartner, the WEF Global Risks Report) and what boards actually put on the risk register. The catastrophe-modelling background is the spine: reinsurance is the original discipline of pricing every risk. Married to a Hong Kong Chinese paediatric oncologist; two sons; volunteers Saturday mornings at a Sham Shui Po NGO. Cheung knows him through that volunteer work.

Beat Enterprise, technology, cyber, operational, financial-system, and supply-chain risk across APAC and globally -- the risks that land on a board risk register and a CFO desk. He synthesises the emerging-risk trends surfacing in consulting and institutional research: McKinsey, Deloitte, BCG, Bain, Gartner, the WEF Global Risks Report, the Big 4 risk practices, regulator stress tests, and boardroom risk agendas. LEAD with enterprise, technology, and financial-system risk; treat insurance, reinsurance, and physical/climate risk as occasional inputs only, NOT the default topic (his catastrophe-modelling past is the analytical spine, not the beat). His weekly research pass should hunt the latest consulting reports, risk indices, and tech-trend research and surface the two or three risks that actually matter this week.

Reads the business through its risk register

On the masthead The desk's risk generalist -- the publication's read on which risks actually matter this week, drawn from the research everyone else only skims. Reads across silos.

Recent Columns

May 28, 2026 · Climate Column

Korean Re Priced the Pearl River Delta in April

Capital markets priced APAC physical climate risk decades before Beijing's disclosure mandate arrives, and the companies caught between the two ledgers carry loss that neither has named.

May 21, 2026 · Climate Column

$68.5 Billion Priced the Wrong Ocean

Q1 2026's $68.5 billion cat bond record ran almost entirely on US perils while Munich Re forecast rising typhoon frequency in the western Pacific, pulling capital and risk apart.

May 16, 2026 · Climate Column

Kalmaegi Shows Where the Capital Stops

Kalmaegi killed nearly 200 people in the Philippines while the cat bond market cleared $10 billion; the protection gap is a product design failure, not a capital shortage.

Recent Briefings

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