All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2014 // Swiss Re, the world’s second – largest reinsurer, agreed to buy a Chinese unit of RSA Insurance Group Plc as it shifts capital to regions with higher premium growth prospects.The Zurich-based company is buying...
Jul 2 2014 // ACE Group has appointed Cora Klena as senior vice president, North American Marketing and Communications. Klena will be responsible for marketing and communications for the company’s North American businesses...
Jun 19 2014 // When it comes to the use of evolving technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas production one big question insurance companies are faced with is: to insure or not to insure?That is a key...
Jun 12 2014 // Swiss Re’s Admin Re unit has agreed to acquire individual and group pension and related annuity policies from HSBC Life (UK) Limited. Swiss Re said the transaction is scheduled to close in the second half of...
Jun 5 2014 // Swiss Re has published a report on the updates it has made in its Corporate Responsibility and Risk Framework applications. “Risk management is at the core what Swiss Re does and as a result, the company updated one...
May 19 2014 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Jeff Summerville to be head of Financial and Professional Services in North America. In this managing director role, he will lead underwriting teams for corresponding lines of...
May 15 2014 // Technology is changing the way insurers and consumers interact and giving insurers access to considerable data so they can better understand their customers, says Swiss Re in its latest sigma study.The study concludes that...
May 9 2014 // Swiss Re’s new Chief Financial Officer, David Cole, said high yields for insurance-linked securities [ILS], such as catastrophe bonds, may lure inexperienced buyers not prepared for the risks they carry.“The...
May 7 2014 // Swiss Re and Hannover Re, the world’s no. 2 and 3 reinsurers, said they saw lower prices in natural disaster reinsurance and April renewals, as they beat profit expectations in the first quarter.Fewer serious natural...
May 7 2014 // Swiss Re reported group net income of $1.226 billion for the first quarter of 2014, compared to $1.38 billion in the first quarter of 2013. The bulletin noted that the 11 percent drop should be seen in light of the...
Apr 1 2014 // The lack of structural measures in large economies including France and Italy present the biggest threat to growth in the euro area, Swiss Re Ltd.’s Chief Economist Kurt Karl said.The region’s economy will...
Mar 31 2014 // Swiss Re announced the appointment of Walter Eraud as General Director Swiss Re, France. He joined Swiss Re in July 2010 and currently works as Head of Client Management in Swiss Re’s Paris office. Eraud covers the...
Mar 26 2014 // Swiss Re’s latest sigma report highlights the 308 disaster events in 2013, of which 150 were natural catastrophes and 158 man-made. Almost 26 000 people lost their lives or went missing in the disasters.The biggest...
Mar 18 2014 // Swiss Re announced that its upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 11 April 2014, will include proposals from the Board of Directors to pay its ordinary dividend of CHF 3.85 [$4.40] per share and an additional special...
Mar 12 2014 // Swiss Re has issued a short statement, that “contrary to market speculation,” it is “not in discussion with the Agnelli family or any of its investment vehicles regarding the possible acquisition of a...
Mar 10 2014 // Meadowbrook Insurance Group, based in Southfield, Mich., has struggled with many challenges during the past couple of years but the “strong remedial measures” implemented to correct unacceptable results are...
Feb 26 2014 // Meadowbrook Insurance Group, based in Southfield, Mich., has struggled with many challenges during the past couple of years but the “strong remedial measures” implemented to correct unacceptable results are...
Feb 21 2014 // Reinsurance rates, particularly for natural catastrophe coverage, probably won’t increase this year, said Swiss Re Ltd.’s chief financial officer.Prices will only begin to rise again when there is some...
Feb 20 2014 // Swiss Re posted net income of $4.4 billion for 2013. The earnings report said the “result was driven by sustained, high profitability in Property and Casualty Reinsurance and very good performances by Corporate...