Solid capitalization enabling market opportunities

Solid capitalization enabling market opportunities

Swiss Re’s policy of ensuring superior capitalisation at all times has meant that even after three consecutive years with large insurance losses, our strong capital position and high financial flexibility enabled us to respond to market opportunities and therefore creating sustainable long-term shareholder value by growing the regular dividend.

Swiss Re’s capital management priorities aim to ensure the ability to continue operations following an extremely adverse year of losses from insurance and/or financial market events. Swiss Re’s Board of Directors has also defined an SST capitalisation target of 220% for the Swiss Re Group.

The below subsections describe Swiss Re’s capitalisation according to the SST and the financial strength ratings.