Financial investments

The in­sur­ance in­dus­try's fifth sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port pro­vides in­for­ma­tion on the wide range of mea­sures tak­en by the in­dus­try in the ar­eas of en­vi­ron­men­tal, eco­nom­ic and so­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

The fifth pri­vate in­sur­ers’ sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port shines a light for the first time on the sus­tain­abil­i­ty gov­er­nance of the com­pa­nies sur­veyed and re­veals that two thirds of these in­sur­ers al­ready

Im­proved min­i­mum stan­dard for sus­tain­able fi­nan­cial prod­ucts and ser­vices strength­ens the cred­i­bil­i­ty of the fi­nan­cial cen­tre.

The self-reg­u­la­tion to pre­vent green­wash­ing in sus­tain­abil­i­ty-re­lat­ed unit-linked life in­sur­ance poli­cies will come in­to force on 1 Jan­u­ary 2025.

Fo­cus on fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of self-reg­u­la­tion and di­a­logue with the au­thor­i­ties 

The fourth sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port of the in­sur­ance in­dus­try pro­vides in­for­ma­tion on the in­dus­try's wide-rang­ing mea­sures in the area of en­vi­ron­men­tal, fi­nan­cial and so­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

In its fourth year now, the pri­vate in­sur­ers’ sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port has demon­strat­ed that sus­tain­abil­i­ty is tak­en in­to ac­count at all stages in the val­ue chain.

With their six in­di­ca­tors, the Swiss Cli­mate Scores cre­ate trans­paren­cy and pro­mote in­vest­ment de­ci­sions that con­tribute to achiev­ing cli­mate goals.

The pro­por­tion of fi­nanc­ing so­lu­tions, as­sets and pre­mi­ums com­mit­ted to the net-ze­ro tar­get is in­creas­ing.