Quiz results from issue 24

Compared to issue 23, where 84 answers to the quiz were sent in, we received only a modest three answers this time!. All three answered very well, though, so each will receive a special thank-you gift.


Curious about the correct answers? You’ll find them below:

  1. 108
  2. 3.9% and 0.6%
  3. CHF 3.40
  4. 5 500
  5. CHF 1 566 million
  6. GE Insurance Solutions
  7. Hurricane Katrina / USD 66 billion
  8. Milton Friedmann


The questions:

  1. How many courses and webinars will Swiss Re Academy offer Swiss Re clients in 2007?
  2. According to Swiss Re’s sigma publication, what were the world’s real premium growth rates in 2005 for life and non-life insurance?
  3. What was the dividend per share paid by Swiss Re to its shareholders in 2006?
  4. Up to 2006, the year in which SITC was integrated into the Swiss Re Academy, how many course participants did SITC train, and from how many countries?
  5. What was Swiss Re’s net income for the first half of 2006?
  6. What major company did Swiss Re acquire in 2006?
  7. What event triggered the most costly insurance loss ever, and what was the insured loss in USD?
  8. Who is generally considered the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century?


Congratulations and a thank-you gift go to:


Alberto Kessel, Embratel, Brazil
Kyle Reed, Zurich North America, USA
D.T.V. Sastri, GIC of India, India

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