Context

Trans­port in­sur­ance pro­tects against risks that car­go and – less com­mon­ly – the means of trans­port it­self might be ex­posed to dur­ing trans­porta­tion.

The Swiss nat­ur­al per­ils pool is a joint en­ter­prise by pri­vate in­sur­ers. The pool is based on twofold sol­i­dar­i­ty.

Out­line of a pen­sion scheme to meet the needs of to­day’s grand­chil­dren – or how the youth wings of po­lit­i­cal par­ties want to re­solve the re­form dead­lock among the old­er gen­er­a­tions.

Sup­ple­men­tary hos­pi­tal in­sur­ance al­lows  pri­vate  in­sur­ers  to  de­vel­op  prod­ucts and ser­vices tai­lored to meet the needs of the in­sured.  A new billing sys­tem will of­fer greater trans­paren­cy.

How has the in­sur­ance in­dus­try coped with the COVID-19 cri­sis so far? Rue­di Ku­bat (Al­lianz Su­isse) and Ivo Men­zinger (Swiss Re) take stock of the sit­u­a­tion.

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

The Swiss pri­vate in­sur­ers of­fer in­ter­est­ing ca­reers to qual­i­fied ap­pli­cants and pro­mote mod­ern ways of work­ing.

In­sur­ers are ma­jor in­sti­tu­tion­al in­vestors with a long-term in­vest­ment hori­zon and a pref­er­ence for safe­ty.

For SIA mem­bers, com­pe­tent em­ploy­ees are one of the core suc­cess fac­tors.