All Switzerland articles
-
Analysis
Rising global temperatures forecast to hit emerging market exports and power supplies
While Europe is gripped by a heatwave, it remains the region most insulated from the economic impacts of rising heat stress
-
Analysis
The 10 most likely risks to cause the greatest financial impact in Europe
A StrategicRISK survey shows European risk managers have a different outlook to their Asian, and global, counterparts
-
Analysis
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions insures Solar Impulse 2 for €24.6m
Agostino Galvagni, chief executive, and Michel Rohr, lead underwriter reveal why and how the Zurich-based commercial insurer priced the risks linked to a solar-powered airplane
-
Analysis
AXA CS Switzerland appoints new chief executive
Martin Vögeli will take up new role in the summer
-
Analysis
XL Group promotes Kadidja Sinz to regional manager continental Europe
Sinz’s remit widens to cover Austria and Central/Eastern Europe, Benelux, Germany, Italy, Nordic and Switzerland
-
Online only
Insurance does not give rise to systemic risk
Insurance has proved to be a source of stability during the financial crisis, claims Swiss think tank
-
Online only
Basel summit tackles “excessive risk taking”
Top banks are invited to discuss proposals for a healthier financial system
-
Online only
P&C insurers should return to 2004 terms
AXA Corporate Solutions says insurers need to return to ‘technically adequate’ risk pricing
-
Online only
52,000 UBS customers hid accounts from IRS
US authorities have demanded to see the identities of US customers with secret Swiss accounts holding about $14.8bn in assets
-
Online only
Swiss insurers stand firm
The insurance market in Switzerland has coped well with the difficult economic environment, according to the country's trade association
-
Online only
UBS overhauls risk practices
Appoints chief risk officer and bundles market and credit risk functions into a single unit
-
Interviews
Swiss Re funds risk Chair at ETH Zurich
Swiss Re will finance a new Chair for Integrative Risk Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
-
Online only
Swiss want top centre of world finance by 2015
Swiss insurers are joining forces with bankers and other financial institutions to put the country amongst the world’s top three centres of international finance
-
Features
Debt Mountaineering at ABB
Lee Coppack discusses the problems that have eroded shareholder value for ABB