All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 16 2018 // Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore described it as “the first taste of a bitter cup that will be proffered to us over and over again.”That devastating event killed more than...
Jul 16 2018 // Global insurance premiums continued to rise in 2017 with emerging markets leading the way, according to a study published by Swiss Re Institute’s sigma, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of market...
Jul 12 2018 // There’s a surefire way to get more people to believe in global warming.Just crank up the heat. A larger percentage of Americans say there is “solid evidence” of global warming than at any time since 2008,...
Jul 11 2018 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has named Allen Kwan head of sales for the West region. Kwan will be responsible for the growth of the Western region, particularly within Los Angeles. Currently based in San Francisco, he will...
Jul 11 2018 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has named Diane Link as head of Excess and Surplus (E&S) Casualty for North America. Link will oversee North American E&S casualty business. Based in Chicago, Link succeeds Mike Kwan,...
Jul 6 2018 // Global insurance premiums continued to rise in 2017 with emerging markets leading the way, according to a study published by Swiss Re Institute’s sigma, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of market...
Jul 3 2018 // Swiss Re announced it no longer is providing re/insurance to businesses with more than 30 percent exposure to thermal coal across all lines of business.The thermal coal policy applies to both existing and new thermal coal...
Jun 27 2018 // Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li is laying the groundwork for a potential initial public offering of his insurance company FWD Group after five years of building the business through acquisitions, people familiar with the...
Jun 14 2018 // Underwriting performance in global engineering insurance has deteriorated over recent years – on declining premiums and rising claims in some construction sectors due to poor quality control, according to Swiss Re in its...
Jun 4 2018 // Monica Ningen has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Swiss Re Canada and English Caribbean. Ningen succeeds Veronica Scotti, who has been named chairperson for Global Partnerships. Ningen has 20 years...
May 28 2018 // Swiss Re AG said it would continue to welcome an anchor investor after Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group Corp. ended its pursuit of a stake in the world’s second-largest reinsurer.The collapsed talks mark the end...
May 4 2018 // Swiss Re said it was still in discussions with SoftBank on Friday about the Japanese group potentially taking a stake in the reinsurer but that a deal was not a sure thing.Swiss Re and its competitors have been under...
May 2 2018 // Talks between billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group Corp. and Swiss Re AG about buying a stake in the world’s second-biggest reinsurer have come to a standstill, people familiar with the matter said.The...
May 2 2018 // Swiss Re’s reinsurance business unit has a newly-approved license for property/casualty business in South Africa. The move completes Swiss Re’s pan to re-domicile its Southern African P/C business onto the...
Apr 30 2018 // Corporate risk managers are buying parametric insurance policies to supplement, not replace, their indemnity-based policies.The parametric products worked well with customers hit by the 2017 hurricanes, according to Robert...
Apr 27 2018 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has announced the creation of a standalone excess and surplus (E&S) business unit in North America.This unit will include Swiss Re’s traditional E&S property and E&S casualty...
Apr 24 2018 // Last year was the second-costliest year for disasters since 1970, according to a new analysis from reinsurance firm Swiss Re AG. Global economic losses from these events reached $337 billion in 2017, behind only...
Apr 12 2018 // QBE Insurance Group Ltd. announced a reshaping of the senior management team with the appointments of Inder Singh as group chief financial officer, replacing Michael Ford who is leaving QBE; Peter Grewal as group chief...
Apr 10 2018 // Global insured losses from natural catastrophes were US$144 billion in 2017, the highest-ever recorded in a single year, according to the latest sigma study from the Swiss Re Institute.The biggest losses came from...
Apr 4 2018 // Who wouldn’t want the attention of a billionaire like Masayoshi Son? The SoftBank founder is Japan’s third-richest man, with interests from ride-hailing app Uber to shared-office firm WeWork. So when he was...