Swiss Re has announced another share buyback programme worth up to $1bn as it reported a 47% surge in profits to a record high in 2025, beating its own guidance.<\/p>\n
The Swiss reinsurance giant said it would repurchase up $1.5bn of its own shares this year, including $500m already earmarked as part of its annual buyback strategy.<\/p>\n
The company also proposed an annual dividend increase in respect of 2025 to $8.00 per share.<\/p>\n
The announcement of returns came as the company delivered its full-year results, in which group net income jumped to $4.8bn from $3.2bn in 2024, coming in some $400m ahead of its own targets.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, return on equity improved to 19.6% from 15.0%, with results helped by strong underwriting profits in the property and casualty businesses \u2013 due to favourable catastrophe environment conditions \u2013 partially offset by the impact of a portfolio review in L&H Re.<\/p>\n
“In 2025 we delivered on two key priorities: achieving our group financial target and strengthening the resilience of the company,” said chief executive group Andreas Berger.<\/p>\n
“Group net income reached the highest level in our history, reflecting disciplined underwriting, strong investment returns and low large loss activity outside of the first quarter.”<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to 2026, the company reiterated its target for net income of $4.5bn, with L&H Re expecting to contribute $1.7bn through a “strengthened portfolio”.<\/p>\n
“Swiss Re’s 2026 targets reflect our confidence in the resilience of our Business Units, disciplined underwriting and active cycle management alongside rising demand for re\/insurance,” Berger said.<\/p>\n
Swiss Re shares were up 3.9% in Zurich at CHF136.10 by 1232 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiss Re has announced another share buyback programme worth up to $1bn as it reported a 47% surge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13815,13817,13816,1971,1973,9012,1974,5492,8669,9365,41,17,13814],"class_list":{"0":"post-20855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-1bn","9":"tag-annual","10":"tag-buyback","11":"tag-categoryall","12":"tag-categorycompany-news","13":"tag-categoryinternational-companies","14":"tag-categorynews-and-announcements","15":"tag-high","16":"tag-profits","17":"tag-record","18":"tag-swiss","19":"tag-switzerland","20":"tag-unveils"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}