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• Zurich's SST ratio leaps 55pp as all local units' ratios improved in 2022

  01 May 2023

  Reinsurer sells Canadian govvies to benefit from reinvestment rates

• Half of European insurers' investments are rated Baa or worse, Moody's estimates

  26 April 2023

  But AT1 debt under 1% of rated underwriters' financial bond holdings

• Helvetia AM gets regulatory exemption to acquire property portfolio from parent

  18 February 2022

  Swiss property fund to raise $217m in capital to acquire the 10 properties

• Finma warns on Swiss property market "overheating"

  12 November 2021

  Regulator's latest Risk Monitor flags possible forced selling by insurers in sharp correction

• BaFin picks Cambridge-educated Briton as new president

  02 August 2021

  Mark Branson replaces Felix Hufeld

• Insurance Asset Risk reveals potential successors to Angehrn as Zurich CIO

  13 July 2021

  Three internal candidates highlighted, however external options also possible

• Swiss Re receives regulatory approval for fund management

  30 November 2020

  Swiss Re will open its natural catastrophe portfolio to investors through a permanent fund format

• Chart: Swiss insurers' 2019 investments

  11 September 2020

  24% real estate weighting, source of concern for the regulator

• Insurers remain operational amid COVID-19, Swiss regulator says

  23 March 2020

  Firms are more affected by financial market corrections than on claims side, FINMA admits

• Swiss insurers face property stress test

  17 December 2019

  Regulator named real estate and mortgage fluctuations as a top-six risk for industry