Media releases

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

At the ‘In­sur­ers’ Day’ event in Bern, SIA chair­man Ste­fan Mäder ap­pealed for per­son­al ac­count­abil­i­ty and called on the guests from the fields of pol­i­tics and ad­min­is­tra­tion to ad­vo­cate for a mar­ket

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

In 2023, Swiss pri­vate in­sur­ers’ pre­mi­um vol­ume once again ex­pe­ri­enced pleas­ing growth, ac­cord­ing to pro­jec­tions by the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SIA. 

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

The del­e­gates of the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SIA elect­ed Ste­fan Mäder, chair­man of the Board of Di­rec­tors of Mo­bil­iar, as their new chair­man at their An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing in Basel.

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.

The Prin­ci­ples for Sus­tain­able In­sur­ance serve as a glob­al frame­work for in­sur­ers for in­te­grat­ing ESG cri­te­ria in­to their busi­ness process­es. 

Pri­vate in­sur­ers in most branch­es record­ed a mod­er­ate in­crease in pre­mi­um vol­umes in 2022, ac­cord­ing to the SIA’s pro­jec­tions.