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Thomas Hel­bling, Di­rec­tor of the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion (SIA), has de­cid­ed to step down at the end of 2021.

At the ‘Day of In­sur­ers 2021’ to­day in Lugano, Rolf Dörig, pres­i­dent of the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SIA, em­pha­sised the im­por­tant role of the sec­tor dur­ing the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic.

There are prac­ti­cal­ly no lim­its when it comes to list­ing every­thing that can be in­sured. But why are there still things that are dif­fi­cult or im­pos­si­ble to in­sure?

An in­creas­ing num­ber of in­sur­ers are in­te­grat­ing ESG cri­te­ria in their in­vest­ment process. Sus­tain­abil­i­ty cri­te­ria are in­volved in 83 per cent of in­vest­ments.

The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic has af­fect­ed the in­di­vid­ual in­sur­ance lines to dif­fer­ent de­grees over the past year.

In this ex­tra­or­di­nary year, the in­sur­ance in­dus­try paid out an es­ti­mat­ed to­tal of CHF 1 bil­lion in claims to pol­i­cy­hold­ers in Switzer­land in the con­text of loss­es re­lat­ed to Covid-19.