Strategy and vision
Swiss Re is extending its leading position in the risk transfer industry by enhancing its ability to seize profitable opportunities across the risk landscape.
Strategic direction
Swiss Re’s ability to provide best-in-class customer service and higher sustainable returns for shareholders rests on the four building blocks of the Group’s strategic direction:
Generate economic profit growth: Swiss Re constantly seeks to redeploy its capital to areas of profitable growth, based on its rigorous commitment to profitability throughout the insurance price cycle.
Reduce earnings volatility: On the basis of its disciplined underwriting practices, Swiss Re utilises a wide variety of tools to reduce earnings volatility, such as issuing insurance-linked securities and the hedging of financial market risks.
Enlarge market scope: Solvency II requirements, insurance risk trading, the demographic shift and climate change are some of the most prominent developments that will allow Swiss Re to grow new markets, work with new clients and develop innovative solutions.
Talent, culture and organisational excellence: Swiss Re aspires to be the preferred employer in its industry by offering an exciting, international environment for employees to develop their careers, as well as by providing attractive rewards for personal achievement, innovation and teamwork.
Vision
The boundaries between risk assessment, risk bearing and risk transfer are becoming increasingly blurred. Swiss Re seeks to benefit from the changing risk transfer landscape by advancing the Group’s two fundamental objectives: providing best-in-class service to insurance clients, and delivering higher sustainable returns to shareholders.
This is achieved by increasing the speed with which risks move onto the Group’s balance sheet and are either held by Swiss Re, transformed or transferred to professional counterparties, to increase capacity, reduce net exposure and enhance profitable growth.
Four key elements drive this model and work together to achieve Swiss Re’s vision:
Port of call for all insurable risks
Swiss Re aims to be the partner of choice for clients and brokers, providing a reliable and integrated resource for their insurance needs. Based on its long-standing experience in a broad range of (re)insurance and specialised capital market solutions, Swiss Re is ideally positioned to deliver new solutions across the entire risk landscape and expand its successful partnerships with clients.
Leadership in insurance risk transformation, syndication and trading
A unique combination of financial strength, reinsurance expertise and capital market capabilities enables Swiss Re to deploy its capital and insurance underwriting capacity actively, flexibly and efficiently. The Group’s experience in structuring insurance risk provides further opportunities to optimise its own capital and risk management, and act as an insurance securitisation intermediary for clients.
Bolder principal
Swiss Re’s scale, strength and expertise enable the Group to offer larger, more sophisticated and more tailored solutions for our clients. This gives the Group the scope to operate competitively across a broad product range, addressing clients’ changing capital requirements and seizing opportunities for economic profit throughout the insurance price cycle.
Talent and culture
Employees are the central force that drives Swiss Re’s vision. The Group’s culture promotes creativity and a strong focus on delivering solutions. Bringing together expertise from all areas of insurance and financial services enables Swiss Re to act as one team to deliver integrated client solutions.
Please contact Strategy_Development@SwissRe.com if you have any questions to Swiss Re's strategic direction.
