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- Viewpoint | 10 December 2025
CHF 526 billion benefiting people, environmental and sustainability issues
Insurers are major institutional investors with a long-term investment horizon and a preference for safety.
- Industry news | 12 June 2025
Industry report: creating the basis to prevent greenwashing
The sixth private insurers’ sustainability report summarises the most important advances made by the industry in the 2024 reporting year.
- SIA Report | 12 June 2025
Sustainability Report 2024
The sixth sustainability report for the insurance industry provides information on the measures taken by the industry in the areas of environmental, economic and social sustainability.
- SIA Report | 27 June 2024
Sustainability Report 2023
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.
- Media releases | 27 June 2024
Industry report: two thirds of insurers have sustainability strategy
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 have a sustainability strategy.
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- Interview | 28 November 2023
‘Scaremongering and activism result in a loss of credibility’
The relationship between climate change and biodiversity, why every company needs climate-compatible strategies and how young employees can be used as a sounding board for sustainability.
- SIA Report | 22 June 2023
Sustainability Report 2022
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.
- Media releases | 22 June 2023
Sustainability report 2022: Broad understanding of sustainability among insurers
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.
- Industry news | 24 November 2022
Third climate compatibility test for the Swiss financial sector
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.
- Media releases | 16 June 2022
80 per cent of investments linked to sustainability criteria
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.
- Media releases | 27 May 2021
Fully anchoring sustainability
An increasing number of insurers are integrating ESG criteria in their investment process. Sustainability criteria are involved in 83 per cent of investments.
