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Zurich, ZH, CH

Internship long-term obligations in (re)insurance 

About Swiss Re

The Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Re Group operates through a network of around 80 offices globally. It is organised into three Business Units, each with a distinct strategy and set of objectives contributing to the Group’s overall mission.

About the Role

Are you excited to conduct research on an actual topic in insurance? Do you want to help us push forward the frontiers of our knowledge? Do you wish to invest your time to research a field of societal interest?

We are offering an opportunity for a 6 months internship to a young colleague, working within an interdisciplinary global team of risk managers, quants and business people, and deliver a key insight to our firm. Your project is in the field of long-term commitments that arise from insurance contracts and includes the following tasks:

• You will interview and work together with colleagues to gain, develop and present insights into market developments.


• You will help us understand the key features and risks of our long-term commitments and develop a risk map.


• You will be involved in the definition and evaluation of illustrative scenarios and challenge our existing economic valuation and risk quantification approach.

The work could potentially contribute to a Master thesis.

About the Team

You will join of Swiss Re Institute which provides research in support of the development and implementation of Group and Business Unit strategies. At the same time you will work closely with Swiss Re's Risk Governance & Steering team. This team provides analytics services and aggregate the risk landscape of Swiss Re, supporting the company in risk monitoring. As the global centre of competence for providing innovative risk analyses for business steering and regulatory solvency reporting the team collaborates closely with globally leading tech providers, internal IT and Risk Modelling teams and uses industry-leading analytics and modelling tools.

About You

Are you a skilled, open-minded individual who can handle ambiguity and is passionate about working in an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural environment?

• You hold or are about to finish a Master in a quantitative field such Economics, Finance, Engineering, Actuarial or Natural Sciences


• You have proven academic or practical exposure to the insurance sector


• You feel a keen interest in societal and socio-economic contexts


• You are a great teammate, fast learning, innovative, showing a high degree of own initiative


• You are passionate about quantitative tasks and have strong analytical skills


• You are proficient in English (written and spoken) and have acquired programming skills (e.g. Matlab or Python)

Duration of internship: 6 months; preferred start date November 2019.

Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

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