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Swiss Re
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Swiss Re is a leading and a highly diversified global reinsurer. It was set up in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863. It has been providing risk and capital management solutions to clients all over the world for the past 144 years. It has carefully built a reputation for strength, expertise, innovation, and reliability that gives a competitive edge in reinsurance and risk management over its competitors. The core business activities of Swiss Re are risk transfer, risk finance and proprietary asset management. It is also a leader in risk securitization and trading.

 
 
 

Swiss Re is further consolidating its leading position in the risk transfer industry through enhancing its ability to seize profitable opportunities across the risk landscape, where risk- taking has become essential to achieve positive growth in the present day business scenario. Its ability to provide best-in-class customer service and higher sustainable returns for shareholders basically rests on four building blocks of the group's strategic direction.

The Group aims to be the partner of choice for clients and brokers, providing a reliable and integrated resource for insurance needs. Based on its long-standing experience in a broad range of (re)insurance and specialized capital market solutions, Swiss Re is ideally positioned to deliver new solutions across the entire risk landscape and expand its successful partnerships with clients.

Reduce Earnings Volatility: On the basis of disciplined underwriting practices, Swiss Re utilizes a wide variety of tools, such as issuing insurance-linked securities and hedging of financial market risks to reduce earnings volatility.

Enlarge Market Scope: Solvency II requirements, insurance risk trading, the demographic shift, and climate change are some of the most prominent developments that allow Swiss Re to grow new markets to work with new clients and develop innovative solutions.

 
 
 

Swiss Re, Risk Management, Capital Management Solutions, Proprietary Asset Management, Risk Securitization, Economic Profit Growth, Organizational Excellence, Insurance Risk Transformation, Norwich Union employees, Financial Services Products, Administrative Reinsurance.