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The VBV-Ver­sicherungslexikon (VBV Dic­tio­nary of In­sur­ance) con­tains about 1’000 key in­sur­ance terms in Eng­lish, Ger­man, French and Ital­ian.

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

The test checks the port­fo­lios of fi­nan­cial com­pa­nies for their cli­mate com­pat­i­bil­i­ty in a cur­rent po­si­tion as­sess­ment us­ing the PACTA method. The re­sults of the third edi­tion are now avail­able.

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

Peak Rein­sur­ance AG has now be­come a mem­ber of the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion (SIA). The SIA would like to wel­come this rein­sur­er to the in­dus­try as­so­ci­a­tion for Swiss pri­vate in­sur­ers.

At the ‘Day of In­sur­ers’ in Lucerne, the chair­man of the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SIA called for more sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

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.

Pri­vate in­sur­ers em­ployed 49,902 peo­ple in 2021, ac­cord­ing to the an­nu­al sur­vey con­duct­ed by the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SIA. 

Switzer­land, as a fi­nan­cial cen­tre, is pro­tect­ing it­self against the en­hanced threat of cy­ber-crimes by es­tab­lish­ing the ‘Swiss Fi­nan­cial Sec­tor Cy­ber Se­cu­ri­ty Cen­tre’ (Swiss FS-CSC) as­so­ci­a­tion.