All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 19 2008 // Swiss Re appointed Walter A. Bell as chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corp. Bell, whose appointment with Swiss Re is effective Sept. 2, is currently insurance commissioner of the Alabama Department of Insurance, a...
Aug 13 2008 // Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance group has introduced Errors and Omissions (E&O) agency umbrella coverage in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.“The insurance policy offering was developed in...
Aug 6 2008 // Swiss Re joined the ranks of European insurers and reinsurers, who have been impacted by the global financial crisis. The world’s biggest reinsurer reported a 53 percent drop in second quarter net income to CHF 564...
Aug 5 2008 // Swiss Re has agreed to acquire Barclays Life Assurance Company Ltd. for £753 million ($1.472 billion). “The transaction will provide further scale and infrastructure for Swiss Re’s Admin Re® business...
Jul 7 2008 // Swiss Re’s latest sigma study reports that the global insurance industry’s results from 2007 show that insurance premium income grew 3.3 percent in real terms to $4.061 trillion. The growth was “primarily...
Jul 1 2008 // Swiss Re announced that it has obtained $150 million worth of protection against North Atlantic hurricanes, European windstorms, Californian earthquakes and Japanese earthquakes and typhoons through a natural catastrophe...
Jun 23 2008 // Swiss Re’s CEO Jacques Aigrain has signed the climate change recommendations of the Group of Eight (G8) leaders. “The document outlines a new, more environmentally effective and economically efficient long-term...
Jun 13 2008 // A new study from Swiss Re examines the rising impact of natural disasters, which is “driving up the cost of disaster relief and reconstruction for the public sector, especially in developing countries where insurance...
May 27 2008 // Swiss Reinsurance America Corporation and Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. have been officially recognized as admitted reinsurers by Susep, the Brazilian insurance regulator, with the ability to sell reinsurance in the newly...
May 7 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has said that its ‘AA-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Swiss Re “are unaffected by its disclosure, as part of its...
Apr 28 2008 // Conning Asset Management (Europe) Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of Swiss Re, has been appointed to manage a pioneering €125 million ($195.5 million) post 2012 Carbon Credit Fund. The fund is currently investing in...
Apr 16 2008 // Swiss Re announced today that it will finance a new Chair for Integrative Risk Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). “The Chair will be established to create a world-class...
Apr 3 2008 // Swiss Re announced it has received approval to establish a consulting company in China to provide comprehensive third party administrator (TPA) and related consulting services to hospitals, insurers, policyholders and...
Apr 2 2008 // Swiss Re announced that David Blumer has been appointed as Head of Financial Markets and as a Member of the Executive Committee, effective from May 2008. He will succeed Roger Ferguson, “who will accept a senior...
Mar 21 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has removed from under review with negative implications the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa” of Swiss Reinsurance Company and...
Mar 20 2008 // Swiss Re is honoring “International Water Day” on March 22 by making a CHF 1 million ($99.2 million) donation to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for an infrastructure project in Ethiopia...
Mar 12 2008 // Swiss Re’s latest sigma study – “Natural Catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2007” – examines catastrophe-related economic losses from natural and man-made disasters last year, which...
Mar 7 2008 // Swiss Re has participated in a workshop in New Delhi – “Integrating Earthquake Risk Mitigation into Hospital Facilities Planning” – organized by US-based NGO GeoHazards International and the Delhi...
Feb 29 2008 // Swiss Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer, made better than expected 2007 net profit, as it escaped further subprime writedowns in the fourth quarter, and gave a confident earnings outlook.It reported on Friday a...
Feb 20 2008 // Swiss Re announced that it will become an admitted reinsurer in Brazil with a representative office in São Paulo. The world’s largest reinsurer joins Lloyd’s and Munich Re in accessing the Brazilian market...