Publications by topic
Swiss Re applies its knowledge and expertise to help answer fundamental questions on the key market, regulatory, scientific and social trends that shape the business environment.
Swiss Re’s Top Topics underpin our position as a global knowledge-based leader in managing capital and risk. The Group adopts a structured approach and dedicates resources to anticipate, identify and understand key trends in the risk landscape. The publications listed below examine relevant trends, outlining Swiss Re’s position on each topic.
Risk perception
Opportunities and risks of climate change
Focus report
The effects of climate change: Storm damage in Europe on the rise
Tackling climate change
Climate change futures report
Climate change factsheet
Natural catastrophes: Topic summary
Risk perception
A shake in insurance history - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Natural catastrophes and reinsurance
Storm over Europe - An underestimated risk
Twister - The professional reinsurer's perspective
Floods: an insurable risk?
Tropical cyclones
Earthquake risk in Canada – Key factors to consider
The Great Hanshin Earthquake: trial, error, success
Focus reports
Natural hazards in China
Earthquakes in Switzerland
Floods are insurable!
Hailstones in Europe
Random occurrence or predictable disaster? New models in earthquake probability assessment
Tsunami in South Asia: Building financial protection
sigma no. 2/2007
Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2006
Insurance-linked securities (ILS): Topic summary
ILS Reports
Insurance-linked securities
Market loss index for Europe - expanding capital market capacity
Liability dynamics: Topic summary
Tort leadership (feature in The Review May 2008)
Insurance in emerging markets: focus on liability developments (sigma no. 5 /2005)
The economics of liability losses: insuring a moving target (sigma no. 6/2004)
Nanotechnology: small matter, many unknowns
Nanotechnology: small size, large impact (conference report)
The risk governance of nanotechnology: Recommendations (Conference report 2007)
Technical publishing
A Change of Paradigms in Financial Accounting?
sigma no.4/2006
Solvency II: An integrated risk approach for European insurers
Terrorism – dealing with the new spectre
Terrorism risks in property insurance and their insurability after 11 September 2001
Nuclear risks in property insurance and limitations of insurability
Technical publishing
Pandemic influenza: A 21st century model for mortality shocks
Focus report
Influenza pandemics: Time for a reality check?
