Latest Swiss Re Headlines

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New Swiss Re Sigma Study Predicts Impact of E-business

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...

Hi-Tech Systems Vulnerable To “Space Weather” Effects Says Swiss Re Report

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...

New Swiss Re Study Examines Emerging Markets

Jun 27 2000 // Swiss Re has issued a new Sigma study which examines the expansion of the international insurance community into the “emerging markets” of Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia. Published as “Emerging...

CIGNA to Sell Units To Swiss Re

Jun 26 2000 // CIGNA Corp. has agreed to sell its U.S. individual and group life reinsurance and U.S. accidental death reinsurance businesses to Life Reassurance Corp. of America, a subsidiary of Swiss Reinsurance Co. CIGNA expects to...

Swiss Re “Sigma” Study Focuses on Structural Changes in European P/C

May 29 2000 // Swiss Re’s latest “Sigma” Report focuses on the structural changes that have taken place in the European Property/Casualty insurance sector, and confirms that mergers, acquisitions, deregulation and the...

Fitch Publishes Report on Swiss Re Mexico

Jan 5 2000 // 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...