Investments

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 

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.

De­spite the pan­dem­ic and a sum­mer marred by bad weath­er, the Swiss in­sur­ance in­dus­try once again suc­ceed­ed in mak­ing the var­i­ous as­pects of sus­tain­abil­i­ty an even firmer com­po­nent of its busi­ness.

Cli­mate change is ac­cel­er­at­ing and now af­fects all ar­eas of our lives. Gun­thard Nieder­bäumer ex­plains what in­sur­ers can and should do to slow down this trend.