All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 19 2015 // Swiss Re AG, swimming in excess capital after several years of lower-than-expected disaster claims, plans to shift to share buybacks to return cash to investors after three years of paying a special dividend.The...
Jan 23 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has strengthened its Cyber & Technology team with the addition of two new senior executives. Francois Brisson and Richard De Piero have been appointed Global Head and North America Head,...
Jan 22 2015 // Swiss Re AG Chief Executive Officer Michel Lies called for the creation of a special infrastructure asset class to allow insurers to invest in projects such as roads and bridges.“If you take all the insurance...
Dec 17 2014 // According to Swiss Re’s preliminary sigma estimates, total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were $113 billion in 2014, down from $135 billion in 2013. Out of the total economic losses,...
Dec 15 2014 // Underserved populations and market niches are ripe with potential for insurance innovators who are willing to take on the challenge of creating opportunities in areas that may seem unprofitable at first glance, says the...
Dec 1 2014 // Underserved populations and market niches are ripe with potential for insurance innovators who are willing to take on the challenge of creating opportunities in areas that may seem unprofitable at first glance, says the...
Nov 26 2014 // Swiss Re’s Chief economist, Kurt Karl and his colleague, Senior Economist Roman Lechner, presented a somewhat cautious scenario for the global economy over the next two years. As detailed in Swiss Re’s...
Nov 17 2014 // Underserved populations and market niches are ripe with potential for insurance innovators who are willing to take on the challenge of creating opportunities in areas that may seem unprofitable at first glance, says the...
Nov 7 2014 // Swiss Re AG, the world’s second- biggest reinsurer, said third-quarter profit rose 14 percent, beating analysts’ estimates, following lower-than-expected losses from natural catastrophes.Net income rose to...
Oct 27 2014 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions opens an office in Frankfurt, Germany, to reinforce its presence in the German commercial insurance market. The office will initially focus on property and surety products for corporations in...
Oct 20 2014 // Swiss Re Ltd., the world’s second- largest reinsurer, said better models and oversight will prevent substantial losses as the industry struggles with a price slump.“Earnings in the reinsurance industry are...
Oct 20 2014 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has partnered with UK-based crisis management consultancy The RQA Group to launch comprehensive Contaminated Products Insurance for the food and drink industry in the United Kingdom, Ireland...
Sep 26 2014 // Edouard (Eddie) Schmidt is responsible for Swiss Re’s Property and Specialty Sectors around the world, which covers around a lot of ground. He explained how much, and what some of the difficulties he encounters are...
Sep 22 2014 // Over the past 13 years Swiss Re’s Chief Economist, Kurt Karl has been through a succession of reinsurance market ups and downs, but the current situation is somewhat new, and, as he told the IJ at the Reinsurance...
Sep 18 2014 // Swiss Re Ltd., the world’s No. 2 reinsurer, is cutting back on catastrophe coverage and moving into new lines of business as low interest rates and fewer natural disasters undercut prices.“The super profits...
Sep 16 2014 // The world’s biggest reinsurers, pushed by rising competition in existing markets, are preparing to insure against Dutch floods, a peril that centuries of experience have warned most in the Netherlands against.Swiss...
Sep 15 2014 // Claims severity and demand for liability insurance will increase as economic growth accelerates and because of technological, social and regulatory changes, according to a new report from Swiss Re.Cyber risk, hydrofracking...
Aug 27 2014 // According to preliminary estimates in a sigma report from Swiss Re, total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters reached $44 billion in the first half of 2014. The global insurance industry...
Aug 25 2014 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions announce the appointment of Kuno Linder as Country Manager Germany. He will be based in Munich and be in charge of the company’s interests in the German commercial insurance market,...
Aug 19 2014 // Fosun International Ltd., the investment arm of China’s biggest closely held conglomerate, is in talks to acquire a U.S. life insurance arm of Swiss Re Ltd., people with knowledge of the matter said.Fosun is seeking...