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De­spite its high­ly de­mand­ing en­vi­ron­ment, the Swiss in­sur­ance in­dus­try suc­cess­ful­ly man­aged to hold its ground in 2015. Non-life pre­mi­um vol­ume was high­er year on year.

The Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SVV has nom­i­nat­ed Vice-Chan­cel­lor Thomas Hel­bling to suc­ceed Lu­cius Dürr as its CEO.

The Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SIA has ap­point­ed Gun­thard Nieder­bäumer to head its prop­er­ty and ca­su­al­ty de­part­ment. He will as­sume his new po­si­tion on 1 Jan­u­ary 2017.

In the com­plex eco­nom­ic en­vi­ron­ment of 2016, the Swiss in­sur­ance in­dus­try once again fur­nished tan­gi­ble ev­i­dence of its eco­nom­ic im­por­tance. Pre­mi­um vol­ume in non-life in­sur­ance rose once more as com­pared to the pre­vi­ous year. With in­ter­est rates at a record low and ever-in­creas­ing reg­u­la­tion, life in­sur­ance pre­mi­ums for the same pe­ri­od came in at a low­er lev­el than in 2015.

«The re­sults of the study are very il­lu­mi­nat­ing for the in­sur­ance in­dus­try. The study pro­vides in­for­ma­tion on the cur­rent state and the past de­vel­op­ment of the in­sur­ance in­dus­try in Switzer­land as well as on its fu­ture prospects,» says Urs Berg­er, Chair­man of the SIA.

The Swiss pri­vate in­sur­ance in­dus­try can look back on a suc­cess­ful year in 2013: de­spite chal­leng­ing frame­work con­di­tions and per­sis­tent­ly low in­ter­est rates, the in­sur­ance sec­tor con­tin­ues to grow and has pro­duced an­oth­er grat­i­fy­ing per­for­mance.

Switzer­land's fi­nan­cial mar­kets pol­i­cy is head­ing in the right di­rec­tion. How­ev­er, there is still a lot to do.

Two Swiss in­sur­ers rank among Eu­rope’s largest in 2016.

With a pre­mi­um vol­ume of USD 58.4 bil­lion in 2016, Switzer­land stand on rank eight among Eu­rope's largest in­sur­ance mar­kets.

Pre­mi­ums and mar­ket share 2016

Pre­mi­ums and mar­ket shares 2016

An in­ter­view with Matthias Stet­tler, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of the VBV-AFA, about con­tem­po­rary trends in ad­vanced Train­ing for in­sur­ance spe­cial­ists.