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• Equities sales help Swiss Re to profit after $4.7bn of natcat losses

  23 February 2018

  Swiss Re recorded a profit of $331m in 2017 despite receiving claims of $4.7bn from natural catastrophes including the three major Atlantic hurricanes, Californian wildfires and cyclone Debbie in Australia.

• Swiss Re to elect women to board enriching investment, regulation and activism expertise

  08 December 2017

  More women to inject digitalisation experience to senior echelons

• Swiss Re hopes market normalisation will follow central bank moves

  02 November 2017

  Artificial measures "disproportionately impacted" insurers' investing, manager says

• Insurers back FSB's climate risk reporting recommendations

  14 December 2016

  Disclosure should be mandatory, says Aviva's chief executive

• 'Transferring exposure to real estate was a smart move'

  02 December 2016

  Swiss Re's CIO Guido Fürer praises portfolio shift in light of poor global equity performance

• Alternatives and dividends boost Swiss Re investment returns

  04 November 2016

  But running investment yield extends uninterrupted fall

• Swiss Re cuts cash and short-term investments in main portfolio

  25 February 2016

  Swiss Re's 2015 investment results were slightly lower due to outflows

• Swiss Re boosted by investment income

  30 April 2015

  Achieved in "an environment of financial repression", says CFO