All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2015 // Liability costs involving food contamination are soaring, and a globalized supply chain has made risk management much more challenging.In a new report, Swiss Re says that the number of annual food recalls have nearly...
Jul 15 2015 // “Food manufacturers operate in a vast, globalized supply chain, where one mislabeled product or contaminated ingredient can cause sickness, death, multi-million dollar losses and massive reputational damage for the...
Jul 13 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has named Natasha Wally as Country Manager for South Africa. She will head up the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Advisors South Africa Pty. Ltd.Wally will...
Jul 7 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions announced that it has opened an office in Madrid, Spain, to reinforce its presence in the Iberian Peninsula. It will offer the company’s range of products and customized services via a...
Jun 24 2015 // The global insurance industry gained momentum in 2014, with total direct premiums increasing by 3.7 percent to $4.778 trillion after having stagnated the previous year, according to Swiss Re’s latest...
Jun 19 2015 // Swiss Re AG Chief Investment Officer Guido Fuerer said the world’s second-biggest reinsurer would invest as much as 5 percent of its funds in infrastructure if securities used to fund projects were more easily...
Jun 16 2015 // Swiss Re has issued a statement, following a meeting with senior private and public sector market participants on June 16, entitled “Financial repression – the unintended consequences.”The statement said that...
Jun 2 2015 // Swiss Re AG, which has had an African presence for more than 60 years, said it’s in talks with Nigerian insurers to buy minority stakes and benefit from growth in the continent’s largest...
Jun 2 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has named Jennifer Knox to its North America regional sales team as senior vice president and sales leader of the West region.Knox will be based in Santa Ana, Calif. She is responsible for...
Jun 2 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has added Michael Kwan to its North American leadership team based in Santa Ana, California. Kwan joins the Casualty North America leadership team as senior vice president and head of Excess...
May 20 2015 // De-globalization and political conflict, large natural catastrophes, financial repression and the challenge posed by the “Internet of Things” are some of the risks identified in this year’s “New...
May 12 2015 // A new sigma report –”M&A in insurance: start of a new wave?” – from Swiss Re points out that “merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the insurance industry is rising although the number...
Apr 30 2015 // Swiss Re, Europe’s second-biggest reinsurer, said regulators should prevent catastrophe bonds from being repackaged like subprime mortgages.“It’s important for traditional players like us and regulators...
Apr 30 2015 // Swiss Re reported strong results for the first quarter of 2015, with net income rising 17 percent to $1.4 billion and ROE of 16.1 percent, “driven by profitability across all Business Units and strong investment...
Apr 23 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions joins forces with IBM Security to provide advanced cyber risk protection products and services to companies worldwide, aiming to help businesses defend themselves against increasingly...
Apr 6 2015 // Major European reinsurers have posted very strong full-year results for 2014 and continue to be well capitalized, with profitable underwriting results due to the absence of sizable natural catastrophes and ongoing reserve...
Mar 26 2015 // A study, – “Financial repression: The unintended consequences -” released by Swiss Re, notes that “seven years after the financial crisis, central banks are still keeping interest rates at historically...
Mar 25 2015 // Swiss Re has just released its sigma report on catastrophe losses for 2014, which confirms that total global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were around $110 billion, compared to global...
Feb 25 2015 // In a new sigma report, the first for 2015 Swiss Re concludes that “demand and expectations for better healthcare services are rising in the emerging markets,” and that as a result it expects “premiums for...
Feb 23 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions announced that its new wholly-owned subsidiary, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Advisors South Africa Pty Ltd, is now licensed by the South African Financial Services Board to operate in the...