Swiss Re

Insurers should bring back mutuality to the protection industry with peer to peer (P2P) insurance to be considered, delegates at the Protection Review conference heard.

Some of you may recall a Canada Life article saying the gauntlet is thrown - on the back of pensions automatic enrolment (AE) we need to grow the group risk market in terms of employer schemes, as well as premiums and employees covered.

Individual protection sales declined significantly during 2013; Swiss Re has found.

Pension reforms are driving the most prominent changes in group life. Fiona Murphy takes a look at market developments.

The group risk industry has applauded the latest Swiss Re Group Watch 2014 report, which it said ‘demonstrates the market's continued efforts to promote and deliver these highly valued employer-sponsored protection benefits to a greater proportion of...

The overall UK group risk market grows by 2.8% to nearly 11 million people at the end of 2013, according to Swiss Re's Group Watch 2014.

The first year of auto-enrolment has enjoyed low opt-out rates and relatively high levels of compliance. But what does this mean for group risk schemes? Hannah Uttley investigates the impact of AE on the group risk market.

Fiona Murphy finds the individual income protection market is going ‘back to basics' to target consumers

The challenge for protection insurers in today's market is to adapt their approach so products are "bought, not sold", a report by Swiss Re concludes.

Consumers are not thinking long-term and have been turned off by insurance companies due to negative customer experiences, a new report warns.