Swiss Re
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Nov 6, 2026
Nat BarkerHOST
On that project, they made around £1 million in profit.
Nat BarkerHOST
When the developer, Swiss Re, sold the building in 2007, it made £272 million in profit.
Nat BarkerHOST
And how much of that profit comes from the prestige of it being the Gherkin because it's so beautifully designed by the architects? The estate agent on that deal probably got paid more than the architects who designed the building.
Nat BarkerHOST
And so this is where this idea of an architectural lobby or like something comes in that like there needs to be more conversation about how you can sort of like break out of that paradigm.
Consuelo MackHOST
Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway tossed financial lifelines to a number of blue chip companies during the financial crisis.
Consuelo MackHOST
From 2008 to 2009, he invested a total of $25.2 billion in six companies, candy maker Mars and its Wrigley subsidiary, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, General Electric, Dow Chemical, and reinsurance giant Swiss Re.
Consuelo MackHOST
According to the Wall Street Journal, Buffett's bonanza, the total dividend and premium return he's gotten so far, is nearly $10 billion, which is about a 40% pre-tax return.
Consuelo MackHOST
Now, Mr. Buffett says an average investor could have done just as well if they bought during the market panic.
Freddie FullerHOST
But coming back to your other point, NatCat loss growth is between 5% to 7% per annum, and so growing at a fair clip.
Freddie FullerHOST
And Swiss Re, who are a major European insurer, has modeled that a peak loss scenario for this year could reach $320 billion.
Freddie FullerHOST
And then coming back to that US hurricane point, a single one of those, a major one hitting Florida, for example, could generate insured losses exceeding 300 billion alone.
Freddie FullerHOST
Now, if we bring it back to Europe, I suppose some might say this all matters a lot less because we are not as exposed to severe weather events such as hurricanes or typhoons.
Henna A. KarnaGUEST
where it already exists.
Henna A. KarnaGUEST
So we partnered with Swiss Re, we partnered with lots of very large companies to help enable better technical value propositions in their organizations, rather than invent them on our own.
Henna A. KarnaGUEST
So I never thought I was going to go build something from scratch.
Henna A. KarnaGUEST
But what actually happened was as the further I got into the details of the minutia of what is actually happening in the health care space, how disparate the information is and why bringing it together has actually logistical issues and policy issues, personal issues in some cases, the way the data was handled before.
Alison HarrisHOST
Its strong capital position also gives the company flexibility to pursue profitability across both its insurance and investment businesses.
Alison HarrisHOST
Swiss Re also reported an interesting performance for the first nine months of 2026.
Alison HarrisHOST
Although net income increased 3% to $4.2 billion, the overall picture was mixed.
Alison HarrisHOST
The life and health reinsurance segments performed well, helping offset a 6% decline in P&C re-earnings that was pressured by pricing conditions.
Tim BuckleyGUEST
Everyone in Australia now knows that, but they've known it for 30, 40, 50 years.
Tim BuckleyGUEST
So I actually started going to Swiss Re, Munich Re, two of the biggest insurers in the world.
Tim BuckleyGUEST
And I spoke to their actuaries and they go, we've got zero doubt this is real and the financial implications of it are huge.
Tim BuckleyGUEST
So let's actually prepare, mitigate and negotiate.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
So that's how I entered industry.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
And I practiced my actuarial science with Swiss Re, so in the reinsurance sector of the whole insurance value chain.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
Qualified there, did loads of, you know, actuarial kind of exercise, pressing.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
And then I think it became quite clear to me, even though you get the price right for insurance product, does that really immediately generate kind of like value for the end customer? So I was very longing for opportunity to get a bit closer to the customer.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
So my career journey up to this point was very much led by curiosity, one question after another.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
And I think curiosity also gave me a lot of unexpected power and strengths as well when I make different career choices.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
So, for example, being very candid, do I have doubts when I shift from actuarial to product, when I shift from consumer insurance line to commercial insurance? And when I move from well-established, you know, companies like Swiss Re, like Vitality to the whole insure tech world, of course I do.
Daisy Qi DongGUEST
But there's a stronger voice in my mind is saying, If you really want to learn distribution, if you really want to learn commercial lines, if you miss this opportunity, they might knock on your door again.
CathyHOST
Yeah.
JakeHOST
Yeah, I think I read 50 million for Swiss Re or it was like the biggest policy.
JakeHOST
It's like it's
CathyHOST
small potatoes.
Michael DaviesGUEST
We're going anything that can be automated will be automated and there will be an awful lot of things that are going to be able to be automated.
Michael DaviesGUEST
So, made some early calls, connections led to a lot of work with Swiss Re, which we're starting to see the fruits of now in terms of things like dealing with natural catastrophes and and that led me to working on it increasingly over the following years, teaching about it at London Business School, teaching about it at MIT, advising clients on it.
Michael DaviesGUEST
And then there's been a couple of other inflection points.
Michael DaviesGUEST
At first I was sceptical about LLMs, and then that's important to get out there because it's like, oh yeah, better marketing copy? I was really hard to convince me of the value of that.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
And that legacy still exists within the market.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
And in fact, many of the reinsurance deals, you think about some of the larger reinsurance institutions out there, Munich Re, Swiss Re, whoever, Hanover Re, name your company.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
When they take on a transaction, when they take on risk in the reinsurance market, they will have what's called like an interest and liability agreement.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
And it's just saying like, I am taking on 10% of this risk in this structure and they sign it and that's it.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
And you have to qualify to be a certain tier capital provider.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
And it's pretty crazy how loose some of that risk-taking market is.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
when you are a highly trusted institution because everybody knows that hanover is good for the money everybody knows that swiss re is good for the money if they're unable to pay they're never going to get a deal done ever again you're like i'm just severing that relationship i'm never working with that company ever again yeah so like some of like when we're thinking about talking and informing people about the liquidity of Bitcoin.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
It's informing the market that like we have money and we're good for money.
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