The winter months remain particularly critical. Four technologies are under consideration, each with its own cost, pace, and drawbacks.

News:Switzerland’s Electricity Shortage: Which Solution Will Really Work?

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Pax: In the future, the online business will be operated exclusively under its own brand.

News:Visana Acquires simpego: Pax Sells Majority Stake

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Much like Caesar, market leaders in the insurance industry do not adopt a passive stance, but instead emulate innovations, amongst other things.

News:What Caesar Teaches the Insurance Industry

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Charlie Munger's three paths to ruin were alcohol, women, and leverage.

News:Borrowed Time

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When prolonged heat turns into drought, and drought turns into dry vegetation.

News:When the Heat Wave Ends: Europe’s Summer Becomes an Ongoing Risk

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News:Longevity: The sick span is underestimated

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Demographic change is the greatest market opportunity for life insurance.

News:From Saving to Withdrawel: the Digital Evolution of Pensions

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A thought experiment brings an ancient philosophical method into the modern world of insurance.

News:What would Socrates ask the insurance industry?

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Charlie Munger's three paths to ruin were alcohol, women, and leverage.

News:The Floor, Not the Ceiling

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News:A New Approach to Claims: How Vectoryx Orchestrates Claims Settlement

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News:AI Doesn’t Replace CFOs – it Replaces Finance Professionals who Don’t Use AI

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A mistake made by a young consultant does not automatically lead to dismissal.

News:The Mistake That Makes a Difference

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Couldn't insurance also operate dynamically, decentralized, and in real time?

News:What if Insurance Worked Like a Free Market?

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Charlie Munger's three paths to ruin were alcohol, women, and leverage.

News:The Future Declines to Ignite

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Humanity versus the Human: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) versus what is known as Artificial Individual Intelligence (AII).

News:Humanity is an average: No single person fits that description

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News:“Stay Curious”: Reto Lipp on the Swiss Economy

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Swiss InsurTech Hub reports positive results for the past half-year.

News:Swiss InsurTech Hub Looks Back on an Eventful Half-Year

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Where does what is insurable end, and where does life begin?

News:Heartache With a Deductible

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Bewe Lab's gamified app helps reduce cravings and addictive behavior.

News:Bewe Lab Receives an Award

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What happens when a market that has been paying for the future for two years is presented with the bill?

News:Punished for Winning

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All contributions

Reaching the top with AI: new training program from Swiss Re Institute and the University of St. Gallen.
Mit KI an die Spitze: Neues Trainingsprogramm von Swiss Re Institute und der Universität St. Gallen.
21 July 2025

Reaching the top with AI: new top training course for managers in the insurance industry

“If you want to be a leader in the insurance market tomorrow, you have to invest in artificial intelligence and…

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Positive signals from the Swiss InsurTech Hub (SIH) with a new group of start-ups.
Positive signals from the Swiss InsurTech Hub (SIH) with a new group of start-ups.
18 July 2025

Positive signals from the Swiss InsurTech Hub

At the Swiss InsurTech Hub’s latest “General Assembly” in mid-June 2025, innovation, collaboration…

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Swipe, tap, settle: Better payments without replacing your core system.
Swipe, tap, settle: Better payments without replacing your core system.
16 July 2025

Swipe, tap, pay: Payments are the decisive factor for insurance companies

For years, payments in the insurance industry were considered a minor matter: they were invisible, insignificant and…

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Europe's €10 Billion Deep Tech Push with Michiel Scheffer, EIC President.
Europe's €10 Billion Deep Tech Push with Michiel Scheffer, EIC President.
15 July 2025

Europe’s €10 Billion Deep Tech Push: Michiel Scheffer’s Vision

Europe is investing €10 billion through the European Innovation Council (EIC) to boost deep tech innovation and compete…

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Europe's €10 Billion Deep Tech Push with Michiel Scheffer, EIC President.
Europas 10-Milliarden-Euro-Wette auf Deep Tech: Michiel Scheffer, Präsident des EIC im Interview.
15 July 2025

Europe’s €10 billion bet on deep tech: insights from Michiel Scheffer

During the summer vacations, including today, thebrokernews podcasts are also on vacation. In their place, we are…

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Find out who "Paul the Insurer" is from Pierre Perrenoud.
Find out who "Paul the Insurer" is from Pierre Perrenoud.
14 July 2025

Who is “Paul the Insurer”?

Have you ever heard of “Paul the insurer”? Pierre Perrenoud, who worked for Swiss Re in Zurich for over 35…

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Warum Mitarbeiterbindung zur neuen Kennzahl wird: Raz Dar, CEO Elvee, im Interview mit thebrokernews.
11 July 2025

Why employee retention is becoming the new key performance indicator – and Elvee is setting the pace

Elvee, formerly Curvtech, focused on developing generic AI models and recognized a critical gap in the market.…

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Homeless by Choice: From left to richt: Pat, Lars the singer, Phil, Lars the homeless.
Homeless by Choice: From left to right: Pat, Lars the singer, Phil, Lars the homeless.
8 July 2025

Homeless by Choice – An Unexpected Encounter in the Canary Islands

During the summer vacations, including today, thebrokernews podcasts also go on vacation. In their place, we are…

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Neues Prüfungsregime, alte Unsicherheiten: v.l.n.r.: Jonathan Progin (FuW), Dr. Oliver Favre (Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd.), Jürg Zellweger (VBV/AFA), Noémie Savaria (FINMA), Ivo Flüeler (ARISCO Risk Consultants), Jon Samuel Plotke (ASSEPRO).
7 July 2025

New audit regime, old uncertainties – How the VAG revision is shaking up the industry

The partial revision of the Insurance Supervision Act (ISA) introduces uniform rules for all insurance intermediaries…

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Brokers in transition: From digitalisation and AI to LinkedIn and Ice Cream.
Brokers in transition: From digitalisation and AI to LinkedIn and Ice Cream.
4 July 2025

Brokers in transition – How trust, technology and visibility are changing the business

FuW’s fifth Insurance Broker Forum in Rüschlikon confirmed that the insurance world is on the brink of profound…

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Leadership and other monsters.
Führung und andere Monster: Lektionen in Sachen Führung.
2 July 2025

Leadership and other monsters

In this little article, I want to make you think and encourage you to laugh at my leadership lessons. It’s…

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Richard Simcott: The Superman of Learning.
Richard Simcott: The Superman of Learning
1 July 2025

Richard Simcott: The Superman of Learning

During the summer vacations, thebrokernews podcasts also go on vacation. In their place, we are showing interesting…

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