Economics

Pre­mi­ums and mar­ket share 2018

Pre­mi­ums and mar­ket share 2018

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.

Swiss pri­vate in­sur­ers are ma­jor tax­pay­ers and, as such, make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to the coun­try's pulic sec­tor.

Pre­mi­ums and mar­ket share 2017

Em­ploy­ment is slight­ly on the in­crease in the Swiss in­sur­ance in­dus­try. The lat­est em­ploy­ee sta­tis­tics of the Swiss pri­vate in­sur­ers breaks the num­bers down by cat­e­go­ry.

Switzer­land counts 205 non-life, life and re-in­sur­ers with some 50,000 em­ploy­ees.

Two Swiss in­sur­ers rank among Eu­rope’s largest in 2016.