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Zurich CEO steps down, hunt begins

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... Zurich's global chief executive has announced his departure after six years in the role. Martin Senn joined Zurich in 2006 from Swiss Life, becoming chief investment officer. During his tenure as chief executive, Zurich chairman Tom de Swaan said he ...

Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
Francly my dear, it couldn't have come soon enough. No Virginia, that wasn't a typo for the Swiss franc is back in the news again. As Bloomberg reports, "The franc fell against all but one of its 16 major peers Friday." "The franc dropped 0.7 percent ...

Swiss Re to use artificial intelligence in underwriting

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
Swiss Re has announced it will partner with IBM to make use of its Watson artificial intelligence technology. The first Swiss Re business line to use this "cognitive computing" service will be life and health reinsurance, and according to Swiss Re's ...

FinaMetrica in robo advice deal with Swiss private bank

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... the largest Kuwaiti bank and has branches in a number of countries, although the FinaMetrica tool will be used only by its Swiss subsidiary.

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank. The only problem I have is determining if markets have already bottomed or whether there's more in store before ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... that, in effect, the yuan has strengthened against all the other major currencies. Could it be that the PBOC is just doing a Swiss National Bank (SNB) - when it abandoned its defence of the franc early this year - in anticipation of being drowned by ...

PROFILE: Stanford Brown chief executive Jonathan Hoyle

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... direction of UK interest rates and had to be basically bailed out by the Bank of England." S.G. Warburg was purchased by Swiss Bank Corporation in 1995 and became UBS Warburg after SBC merged with UBS in 1998. In the meantime, Hoyle took on a series ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... 15.39 reading high this month (when the Greek saga went from simmer to boil) and way below the 2015 high of 22.39 (when the Swiss National Bank abandoned its defense of the Swiss franc - 15 January). Yup, the SNB brought more fear in the market - not ...

Shares stronger at noon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... radiology provider Sonic Healthcare was up strongly again on positive broker reports about Monday's news that it had acquired Swiss medical laboratory group Medisupport in a $455.3 million deal.

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... may change soon, however, with new players coming into the life insurance marketplace. Some insurers (such as MetLife and Swiss Re) are entering into partnerships with supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths respectively) to offer policies to these companies' ...