All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2001 // Swiss Re published the following preliminary estimates of the losses caused by natural and man-made catastrophes in the year 2000: 17,000 lives were lost, direct losses were around $38 billion, and $11 billion in insured...
Jan 5 2001 // Fitch rating agency has published a report affirming the ‘AAA’ rating of Swiss Re Mexico S.A., and its subsidiary Reaseguros Alianza Panama, S.A., which is in runoff, at ‘A.’ The brief announcement...
Dec 19 2000 // The world’s two largest reinsurers, Munich Re and Swiss Re, whose combined premiums total over $25 billion, have teamed up with Internet Capital Group, a leading B2B provider, and Andersen Consulting to launch...
Dec 14 2000 // A new Swiss Re Sigma study gives an in depth look at the global insurance market based on 1999 premium figures from 134 countries. The industry, paced by booming life insurance sales, posted a 4.5 percent gain last...
Dec 7 2000 // Swiss Re announced that it will host a “Year-end Economic and Insurance Industry Review and Outlook at its New York offices on Tuesday, December 12, 2000, from 8:30 – 10 a.m.” It has invited...
Nov 29 2000 // Swiss Re New Markets and Ambac Assurance Corp. have teamed up to provide $290 million in financing to the Arby’s restaurant chain, best known for its roast beef sandwiches. In an innovative structuring for the...
Nov 16 2000 // Swiss Re announced that it had opened “a new platform for discussion and debate about leading-edge developments in the fields of risk and capital management” in Ruschlikon, a small town near its Zurich...
Nov 15 2000 // Swiss Re announced that it has completed the acquisition of the remaining 65 percent interest it didn’t already hold in Società Italiana Cauzioni (SIC), a Rome based bond and credit insurer, which employs 163 people...
Nov 14 2000 // Swiss Re’s new Sigma 8/2000 report, “Japan’s Insurance Markets—A Sea Change,” examines the industry in depth and discusses the uncertainties and the future outlook. “Financial market...
Oct 31 2000 // Swiss Re has published a new “Sigma” study, that examines the state of the credit insurance industry, and finds that “growth prospects for traditional credit insurance remain positive and, in addition,...
Oct 31 2000 // So found a recent Swiss Re sigma study “Trade Credit Insurance.” The study also found the products that will likely boost revenue include: credit lines for commercial internet purchases, information services...
Oct 27 2000 // Swiss Re and the French Bank Société Générale (SocGen) announced that they have jointly concluded the financing of a line of credit up to $1.075 billion for Compagnie Financière Michelin (CFM), the holding company for...
Sep 13 2000 // Swiss Re posted a surprising 28 percent gain in net profits of SwFr 3.26 billion ($1.85 billion) for the 1st half of the year compared to SwFr 2.56 billion ($1.45 billion) in 1999. Although gross premiums written did rise...
Sep 6 2000 // Swiss Re New Markets (SRNM)and Houston based energy giant Enron have combined their expertise to create a new and innovative risk management product for “financing of a specific portfolio of natural gas...
Sep 6 2000 // Dr. Kurt E. Karl has joined Swiss Re as head of the company’s Economic Research and Consulting in New York. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Karl was chief international economist at WEFA, Inc., an economic forecasting...
Aug 18 2000 // Swiss Re announced that it “has experts available to speak on the risks and costs associated with natural catastrophes and other important topics impacting individuals, businesses and the environment around the...
Jun 30 2000 // The release by Swiss Re of a Sigma Study entitled “The Impact of E-business On the Insurance Industry: Pressure to Adapt–Chance to Reinvent,” is the third major report the company has issued in the last...
Jun 29 2000 // Catastrophes and intense competition can effect even the largest companies. Moody’s Investors Service provided graphic proof of this on Wednesday when it announced that it had changed its rating outlook on Swiss Re...
Jun 29 2000 // Online sales in personal lines insurance will have cornered a market share of 5-10 percent in the U.S. and 3-5 percent in Europe by 2005; e-business will enable U.S. personal lines insurers to cut costs by up to 12...
Jun 28 2000 // “Space Weather – hazard to the Earth?”, a new 41 page study from Swiss Re, examines the effects of solar activity and related interstellar phenomenon on earth’s weather, and on high tech...