Zurich Insurance Group

Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. (SIX: ZURN) is a Swiss protection organization, by and large known as Zurich, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The association is Switzerland's greatest insurer.As of 2013, the social occasion was the world's 75th greatest open association according to Forbes' Global 2000s summary, and in 2011 it situated 94th in Interbrand's top100 brands. Zurich is an overall protection organization which is sorted out into three focus business bits: General Insurance, Global Life and Farmers. Zurich uses around 60,000 people serving customers in more than 170 countries and areas around the globe.The association is recorded on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Beginning 2012 its capital position was strong, with shareholders' estimation of $34.494 billion.

History

 The association was set up in 1872 as a marine reinsurance an assistant of the Schweiz Marine Company. In 2000, after different acquisitions, it was united to shape one holding association Zurich Financial Services.

 In April 2012, Zurich Group Ltd. In a declaration the Group cleared up the technique for thinking behind the name change. "In affirmation of this key focus, the reference to cash related organizations in the association name has been supplanted by exhibiting the security activity of the Group rather and to show the reason in like way.

On 26 January 2016, it was accounted for that Zurich had poached Mario Greco, CEO of General as its next CEO, and that he would start on 1 May.

Corporate social commitment

In 2009, Zurich was rewarded Charity Times. Partnership of the Year Award for its association with the treatment altruism Addaction.

According to its site, Zurich Community Trust has given over £60 million since 1972, with the goal of tending to key social issues. It has supported more than 600 philanthropies a year, quantifiably affecting the lives of more than 80,000 people.Zurich was one of the essential which it has adequately held for quite a while.

At a social occasion level, the Z Zurich Foundation's focal objective is to individuals and gatherings fathom and manage peril, using Zurich's inside qualities as a security net supplier. Zurich is finishing this point by working with whole deal relationship with select non-advantage relationship, for instance, Practical Action, the Rainforest Alliance, Societies.

In March 2012, Zurich invigorated its devotion to the Z Zurich foundation by making a huge theory of $100 million.

In 2011, Zurich moved a free online resource My Community Starter proposed to make getting incorporated into gathering practices more direct.

On 24 October 2002, Zurich North America encouraged a capacity at the 9/11 Tribute Center regarding the victors of its 2012 K.A.M.P. rewards, a framework made as a living legacy to the four delegates butchered Picarro.

In March 2013, Zurich proclaimed its overall surge adaptability program, which arrangements to enhance bunch surge adaptability by finding creative ways to deal with grow the impact of fiasco risk diminishing tries at gathering, national and overall levels. The central country framework is happening in Mexico and Indonesia. To enlarge the gathering impact of the task, Zurich has confined a key collaboration with the International Federation

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SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker ZURN. Beginning 1 December 2012 there were 148,300,123 totally paid selected offers and 124,847 shareholders.24.7% of the holding of the enrolled shares were private individuals (15.3% of each and every surprising offer), 7.2% were foundations and annuity stores (4.5% of each and every remarkable offer) and 68.1% were other true blue substances (42.3% of each and every exceptional offer).

In its whole year results for 2012 Zurich reported a net pay after obligation (inferable from shareholders) of $3.878 billion, an extension of 3% on the prior year, and a business working advantage of $4.075 billion. A whole year benefit of CHF 17.00 for every offer was avowed at the Annual General Meeting. The association has a Solvency 1 extent of 278% beginning 31 December 2012 and a Swiss Solvency Test extent of 178% beginning 1 July 2012, far over the base capital necessities. The nature of Zurich's bookkeeping report is reflected in the reports of the examinations workplaces. Beginning 31 December 2012, Zurich was assessed as 'AA-/stable' by Standard and Poor's, 'Aa3/stable' by Moody's, and A+/stable' by A.M. Best.All figures underneath are for the year completed 31 December and are in USD millions unless communicated by and large.