Focus reports - full list

Swiss Re’s focus reports are short journalistic publications featuring topics of significance to the reinsurance industry. Their intention is not to give a comprehensive overview of a problem or topic, but to lend impetus to hypotheses and reflection, thus creating a basis for constructive dialogue.

Providing valuable analytics through casualty underwriting reviews
Emission allowances and business interruption insurance in the EU
Influenza pandemics: Time for a reality check?
Getting it right: Property insurance values
Market loss index for Europe – expanding capital market capacity
EC Environmental Liability Directive: A model for hazard analysis
The effects of climate change: Storm damage in Europe on the rise
Maintenance: A strategic management tool
Natural hazards in China: Ensuring long-term stability
Hailstorms in Europe: A new look at a familiar risk
Tsunami in South Asia: Building financial protection
Hurricane season 2004: Unusual, but not unexpected
Nuclear risks in property insurance and limitations of insurability
Prion infection on the rise? Hospitals in need of modern risk management
Wind/Flood Japan - In search of sustainability
Floods are insurable!
Companies at the mercy of IT
The water factor
Terrorism - dealing with the new spectre
Random occurrence or predictable disaster? New models in earthquake probability assessment
Approaches to a changing risk profile. The agricultural sector in Europe
Genetic engineering and liability insurance. The power of public perception
Complex, high-risk systems: Is man the weakest link in the chain?
Law, insurance and the Internet
Earthquakes in Switzerland

Alphabetical overview
Swiss Re publications 2008