Der seit 2000 anhaltende Einbruch der Aktienmärkte und die Rekordschäden des Jahres 2001 begünstigen einen zyklischen Aufstieg des Nichtleben-Versicherungsgeschäfts mit weltweit steigenden Preisen. Versicherungsunternehmen sind angesichts der schwachen Erträge ihrer Kapitalanlagen und der...

Das Wachstum der Nichtlebenversicherung in Asien hat sich nach der leichten Abschwächung im Jahr 2001 wieder erholt. Die ganze Region verzeichnete einen Prämienanstieg, und einzelne aufstrebende Märkte weisen ausserordentlich hohe Wachstumsraten auf.(...)

In 2000 insurance companies wrote USD 2 444 billion in premiums worldwide, translating into a 6.6% increase in premiums over 1999 when adjusted for inflation. Booming life insurance and first signs of a recovery in non-life insurance were the drivers of this growth. Life insurance benefited as a...

According to updated figures from Swiss Re, 60,000 people worldwide were killed by natural and man-made catastrophes in 2003. Over two thirds of these were the victims of earthquakes.(...)

Economic crises such as those that recently hit Argentina and Venezuela inflict damage on the insurance industry in the form of declining premiums and profits and even bankruptcies. As Swiss Re's new sigma study 'Emerging insurance markets: lessons learned from financial crises' shows, insurers...

In 2002 losses from natural catastrophes and man-made losses cost non-life insurers USD 13.5 bilion across the globe. This was markedly below the previous year´s level of USD 35 billion. While natural catastrophes caused losses of USD 11.4 billion, property losses from man-made disasters...

The London Market lost market share in the 1990s, but as a trading centre for marine, large industrial and reinsurance risks it continues to play a key role for the global insurance industry. Swiss Re's latest sigma study deals with the most important developments on the London Market.