Baloise Holding AG News

Pressure Grows on Swiss Insurer Baloise to Change Voting Rules

Shareholder pressure is growing on insurer Baloise to change its voting rules, with influential proxy adviser Glass Lewis backing one investor’s bid to remove a 2% ceiling on voting rights, saying it would make the Swiss group more attractive. Baloise …

Efma-Accenture Innovation Awards Offer View of Insurance Industry’s Transformation

Daniele Presutti, Accenture’s Insurance lead in Europe, and Silvia Milián, Accenture’s Insurance lead for strategy and consulting in Iberia discuss how the submissions to 2021’s Efma-Accenture Innovation in Insurance Awards demonstrated the extent that the insurance industry has been developing …

Winners Announced for 6th Annual Efma-Accenture Innovation in Insurance Awards

The winners of the sixth annual Innovation in Insurance Awards have been announced by Efma and Accenture, which jointly established the awards in 2016 to recognize technology innovation. At a virtual ceremony, Generali was a big winner, receiving four out …

Baloise Shopping for Insurers at Home and Abroad in Europe

Martin Strobel, CEO of Baloise Holding AG, said the insurance company may consider buying firms in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. “If more opportunities arise in our core markets we will examine these,” Strobel said in an interview at the …

Baloise of Switzerland Profit Jumps on Life Insurance Sales

Baloise Holding AG, Switzerland’s third-biggest insurer, said first-half profit jumped 43 percent, boosted by earnings from life insurance. The shares rose on expectations for a higher dividend. Net income increased to CHF349.9 million ($383 million) from CHF244.8 million [$268 million] …

Baloise Jumps as First-Half Profit Boosted by Life Insurance

Baloise Holding AG, Switzerland’s third-biggest insurer, rose the most in nearly three years after saying profit increased more than 40 percent in the first half. Profit will reach more than CHF 340 million ($375 million), the Basel-based insurer said today …

Baloise Germany Agrees to Eliminate 400 Jobs Over Four Years

Basler Versicherungen, the German unit of Swiss insurer Baloise Holding AG, reached an agreement to cut 400 jobs by the end of 2017 to reduce costs. The company, based in Bad Homburg, has “a framework agreement with the employee representatives’ …