Baden-Baden Meeting 2019

• Intelligent Insurer, 21.10.: Swiss Re CEO Reinsurance EMEA sees ‘flight to quality’ opportunity after instability

Geopolitical and macroeconomic factors are creating uncertainty in the reinsurance market, causing “a flight to quality”, according to Urs Baertschi, Chief Executive officer, Reinsurance EMEA, and Member of the Group Executive Committee at Swiss Re. Baertschi said this plays to the scale and breadth of Swiss Re’s relationships and product offerings for its clients. "Insurers need to become more efficient. They need a reinsurance partner with a broad range of solutions, tools and services designed to get the very best from their existing books of business," he stated.

• Setting the Agenda: Baden-Baden and the Global Reinsurance Landscape

Ahead of the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting, three of Swiss Re's experts discuss some of the market dynamics currently shaping the reinsurance sector. Jerome Haegeli, Group Chief Economist at Swiss Re, explains the findings of a recent study by Swiss Re and the London School of Economics. Maya Bundt, Head Cyber & Digital Strategy at Swiss Re, discusses the growth of the cyber insurance market and its implications on the capacity of cyber reinsurance. Thorsten Steinmann, Head Casualty Underwriting EMEA, Managing Director at Swiss Re, shares his insights on the casualty market and where he sees possible rates increases (article requires subscription, podcast).

• Fac is changing track: Laure Forgeron, head of P&C facultative EMEA at Swiss Re, explains how facultative reinsurance is becoming a more strategic purchase.
• Baden-Baden XPRIMM Reception: Who were the winners of the XPRIMM Insurance Awards 2019?

Swiss Re's headquarters in Baden-Baden are located at the Bad Hotel zum Hirsch.

This is where most of Swiss Re’s meetings with clients take place, where we meet journalists and where our Swiss Re Monday takes place on 21 October.

How to find Swiss Re in Baden-Baden:
Bad Hotel zum Hirsch
Hirschstraße 1
76530 Baden-Baden

How to get there? Click here.

Find out what our clients from Ansvar have to say about our telematics partnership.

Find out what our clients from Baloise have to say about our cyber partnership.

Find out what our clients from Allianz have to say on our analytic solutions partnersip.

Halloween casts its shadow on Swiss Re Monday. Our party becomes Thriller Night. Exciting, spooky, unpredictable. All will be revealed. Look forward to a thrilling evening and party with us late into the night.

You can't be with us all the time? Come and join us whenever it suits: For cocktails, for the full Thriller Night or just an after-dinner drink. There are also some quiet corners if you dare to stay away from the dance floor.

Dress code? Come as you like. If you feel like dressing in black and orange or wearing a fancy Halloween accessory, that's fantastic! We will reward your effort.

Can I bring colleagues with me? Of course!

Date and time: 21 October 2019, 19.30 – 1.00

Venue: Bad Hotel zum Hirsch, Cristal room, Hirschstrasse 1, Baden-Baden

NatCat risks on the rise. It's time for innovative solutions!

Our sigma report on natural catastrophes published by the Swiss Re Institute on 10 April 2019 makes it clear: Smaller but more frequent natural catastrophes are on the rise.

This is a huge challenge for our industry. On the one hand, the risk of large losses from smaller events is an unprecedented trend that is increasing pressure on our balance sheets.

At the same time, our industry is being challenged to accelerate our efforts to close protection gaps. This means creating more efficient and effective solutions that protect societies against raising nat cat risks and increasing losses.

Join us in this effort. Learn about our services and solutions. And help spread the word.

Advanced analytics – exploring the future potential

The industry is changing as the amount of digital data available to insurers grows exponentially. As data availability grows competitive advantage will go to those who can harness existing as well as new digital data from sensor network and digital platforms.
Analytics enables insurers to combine data sources in new ways to extract relevant business insights to steer their portfolios. However, there is a clear need for specialized people to bridge the gap between data and industry opportunities – capabilities that are difficult to find. We want to take a closer look at the future potential of harnessing advanced analytics across P&C.

Learn more about P&C Analytics Solutions here

• sigma 5/2019: Indexing resilience

The latest sigma is an industry-first. We have constructed new indices that go beyond the traditional GDP growth measures for economic strength, and introduce a systematic approach to quantify insurance protection gaps. By "indexing" resilience, we show that the insurance industry continues to make society more resilient, even as the capacity of the global economy to absorb new shocks has waned and is now lower than before the global financial crisis ten years ago. Read the full report for more details.

• sigma 4/2019: Advanced analytics: Unlocking new frontiers in P&C insurance

The availability of digital data is growing exponentially as the use of sensor networks and digital platforms becomes increasingly widespread. At the same time, the ongoing development of advanced analytics capabilities affords P&C insurers the means to unlock untapped potential across the insurance value chain, our latest sigma says. By processing structured and unstructured data sources, insurers will be able to price new markets and risk classes, and make existing processes more efficient. Learn more about the new frontiers in the latest sigma.

• sigma 2/2019: Secondary natural catastrophe risks on the front line

Global insured losses from natural catastrophe events in 2018 were USD 76 billion, the fourth highest on sigma records. More than 60% resulted from so-called "secondary" perils. The combined insurance losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018, meanwhile, were USD 219 billion, the highest-ever for a two-year period. Here too, more than half of the losses were due to secondary perils. Read the full report for more details.