- CEO
- Andreas Berger
- Full Time Employees
- 14,893
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Insurance - Diversified
- Address
- Mythenquai 50/60, PO Box Zurich ZH Switzerland 8022
- IPO Date
- Mar 6, 2014
- Business
- Swiss Re AG is a leading global reinsurance, primary insurance and risk transfer solutions provider, offering a comprehensive suite of risk management products and services to clients worldwide. The company’s core activities center on the underwriting and distribution of reinsurance; life and health and property and casualty reinsurance; primary insurance including specialty and commercial lines; and risk transfer and capital management solutions for insurers, corporations, and public sector entities. Swiss Re delivers risk assessment, pricing, structuring, and claims services as part of its underwriting and advisory capabilities; it provides risk analytics, underwriting platforms, and client-facing tools to support risk selection, pricing, and portfolio optimization. Its product categories include proportional and non-proportional reinsurance, treaty and facultative solutions, life and health reinsurance, specialty lines (professional liability, construction, credit and surety, marine, aviation, energy), property and casualty reinsurance programs, employee benefits and life solutions, and multi-line risk transfer arrangements; it also offers risk modelling, catastrophe modelling, and financial solutions such as cat-influenced capital markets instruments.
Latest major company changes include strategic partnerships and alliances, targeted acquisitions and divestitures within the last 1-2 years, expansion of digital underwriting and data analytics capabilities, launches of tailored product suites for climate and cyber risk transfer, reorganizations to optimize global risk capital deployment, and geographic expansion into emerging markets through partnerships and regional hubs. The company undertakes reorganizations and branding initiatives as it refines its global footprint and product offerings to address evolving risk management needs.
Additional context: Swiss Re operates across the global reinsurance, insurance, and risk transfer value chain, serving insurance and reinsurance clients, corporate clients seeking risk transfer solutions, and institutional partners. It targets multinational insurers, regional carriers, reinsurers, banks, and other large corporate counterparties requiring risk transfer, capital relief, or stability in exposure to catastrophic or non-catastrophic events. Geographic operations encompass major regions including Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, with subsidiaries and affiliates supporting local market needs. Swiss Re was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. It maintains subsidiary relationships and acts within a corporate group structure to deliver broader risk management solutions to its clients.