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Swiss Re office in London, UK. Its London office is located in the 30 St Mary Axe tower, which opened on 25 May 2004. The landmark London skyscraper, designed by architect Norman Foster and popularly known as "the gherkin", was sold in February 2007 for over £600 million to IVG Immobilien AG of Germany and the Evans Randall property investment firm.
Kielholz has also been a driving force behind Swiss Re's strong stance on corporate architecture – as expressed by buildings such as Swiss Re's Centre for Global Dialogue, Rüschlikon/Zürich, the building at 30 St Mary Axe, London, ("the Gherkin"), or the "Swiss Re Next" building at Mythenquai in Zürich. Kielholz is married and lives in Zurich.
On 25 July 2007 Resolution agreed a merger with Friends Provident to create a new entity, Friends Financial, with a market cap of circa £8.6Bn, however by September 2007 it was announced that Hugh Osmond's Pearl Group, a critic of the proposed merger with Friends Provident, had undergone talks with Swiss Re about a potential deal to take over Resolution, [3] but talks broke down.
In 2001, he became head of the Property & Casualty Business Group and was elected to the Executive Board of Swiss Re. In September 2008, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO. On 12 February 2009, in an emergency situation when Swiss Re was at the brink of bankruptcy and required a US$3 billion capital injection from Berkshire ...
Swiss Life: Financials Life insurance Zürich: 1857 Life insurance P A Swiss National Bank: Financials Banks Bern: 1906 Central bank S A Swiss Post: Industrials Delivery services Bern: 1849 Postal services S A Swiss Private Aviation: Consumer services Airlines Kloten: 1984 Aviation services, part of Swiss International Air Lines: P D Swiss Re ...
The consulting firm Russell Reynolds, which also tracks CEO changes, said high turnover shows growing risk appetites and "a desire for leaders who can navigate increasing complexity in the macro ...
Throughout the late 1800s, Credit Suisse set up banking and insurance companies in Germany, Brussels, Geneva and others (as SKA International) with the bank as a shareholder of each company. It created insurance companies like Swiss RE, Swiss Life (aka Rentenanstalt) and Schweiz. Credit Suisse had its first unprofitable year in 1886, due to ...
Hollywood relationships aren’t exactly known to last longer than a couple of years and when break-ups happen — especially those that end in a complete mess — they’re often at the center of ...