Archive

  • Helvetia and Baloise merger to create second largest Swiss insurance group

    22 April 2025

    Combined business will write CHF 20bn of annual gross premiums

  • Swiss Re names Bernhard Kaufmann to succeed Patrick Raaflaub as group CRO

    22 April 2025

    Kaufmann is currently group CRO at Swiss insurer Helvetia

  • Less than 15% of Helvetia's oil and gas insurance business net zero aligned

    18 March 2025

    Swiss insurer publishes climate impact metrics for its non-life business

  • Spain's floods come after unprofitable year for country's property insurers

    04 November 2024

    Climate change's impact was cited as a factor impacting the Spanish market

  • Helvetia hires NN Group's CRO as part of risk management revamp

    15 August 2024

    Bernhard Kaufmann will be succeeded by NNLP's CRO Wilbert Ouburg

  • Helvetia revamps risk management unit as part of business restructure

    16 May 2024

    The Swiss insurer says the new configuration will strengthen its international orientation

  • Helvetia launches climate strategy with three-pronged approach

    30 June 2023

    The Swiss insurer said the initiative includes an exit plan for coal-related insurance business

  • What Italy's life insurers are saying about lapse risk

    05 May 2023

    Insurance Risk Data analyses firms' 2022 disclosures and predictions for 2023

  • Fabian Rupprecht to become Helvetia CEO

    20 April 2023
  • Insurers under pressure to halt cover for Australian gas field expansion

    05 October 2022

    Ichthys is one of the world's most complex liquefied natural gas projects