Life Guide: moving forward in life

Swiss Re’s integrated research - based on the latest medical advances, alongside 160 years of knowledge, data and claims experience. Flexible, state-of-the-art technology. Intuitive interface. Supercharged by Artificial Intelligence.
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Confidence. Trust. And a long-standing reputation as the number 1 underwriting guide for Life and Health risks. Underwriters around the world depend on Life Guide to support reliable decisions that build a strong and sustainable portfolio. Life Guide's platform is paired with fast, flexible technology that works for you to make your life easier.

Transforming Life and Health underwriting

Pioneering approach in Artificial Intelligence, state-of-the-art calculators for serious conditions like cancer, coronary artery disease and cardiometabolic diseases, advanced technology and intuitive user interface deliver results so that you can make confident decisions.

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Why choose Life Guide?

  • Integrity and consistency

    Life Guide is backed by the expertise of Swiss Re underwriters, doctors and actuaries who monitor the latest medical, regulatory and technological developments. This cutting-edge information is baked right in and delivers confidence to the decisions you make.​

  • Supercharge your risk assessment

    Make confident underwriting decisions with Life Guide's enhanced Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) calculator, Cardiometabolic calculator, up-to-date medical evidence, and enhanced mental health guidance.​​

  • Better. Faster. Flexible.

    Underwriting is adapting quicker than ever before. Life Guide, the industry's number 1 underwriting resource, is proud to offer our clients exclusive insights, news and training.​

What's new? As underwriting transforms, so does Life Guide

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Simple, intuitive, customisable interface

Life Guide's intuitive interface makes navigation simpler than ever. Featuring clear tables and improved notes functionality, plus a clean, modern design. Life Guide offers the features you love, like calculators that simplify the underwriting process for the most common impairments, guidance in 11 languages, risk insights (webinars, publications and more) and e-Learning modules.

Supercharged by Artificial Intelligence

Save time without cutting corners on confidence, thanks to our AI-powered search engine. Find results instantly, with Life Guide's improved search filters and easy to navigate page layout. With features like Top 5 searches and type-ahead text, the answers you need are just a click away.

Flexible, state-of-the-art technology

Is your underwriting future ready, now? Life Guide's state-of-the-art technology provides faster, more reliable performance and is adaptable for future advances in technology, automation, and deployment of ever-increasing alternative data sources and allows more ways for you to personalise Life Guide to fit your needs.

New Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) calculator

Designed to help medical underwriters assess the risk in a fast, easy and reliable way, using the latest technology and medical research. It simplifies the underwriting process by organizing all the information, providing an integrated view as well as additional guidance for different types of medical evidence. It even adapts to the different levels of the condition's complexity.

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Swiss Re Life Guide Scout

A Generative AI-powered underwriting assistant helps increase efficiency and quality of your underwriting. It generates swift answers compiled from our curated expert knowledge in response to questions asked by the underwriter in natural language.

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Evidence-based backup

Tackle underwriting challenges knowing you always have trusted validation and evidence to answer the "why" behind a rating now or far into the future.

  • Built-in evidence behind every rating and calculator output
  • Consistent underwriting philosophy and guidance for multiple product types
  • Cutting edge medical reviews from our global team of doctors
  • Access to historical guides for claims questions

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