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26 Talanx Group. Annual Report 2011
Talanx Highlights in 2011
01/2011
hdi-gerling tAkes over dutch
property/cAsuAlty insurer
HDI-Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG
takes over the Dutch property/casualty
insurer Nassau Verzekering Maatschappij,
N. V., Rotterdam. The company with 160 employees
specialises in lines of business such
as professional indemnity, D&O and crisis
management.
hAnnover re buys
reinsurAnce portfolio
Hannover Re takes over Scottish Re’s entire
portfolio, which covers the mortality risk
under term life and endowment products
and was taken on by Scottish Re from 2000
to 2003. The business is expected to generate
an annual premium volume of about
USD 80 million.
02/2011
mAdrid becomes An
industriAl insurAnce hub
The Spanish company HDI Seguros, a
subsidiary of HDI-Gerling Industrie
Versicherung AG, is to be expanded into
a hub for industrial insurance solutions
in Latin America.
AwArd for compAny pension
provider
In a survey of competence and expertise
in company pension schemes, the
independent Institut für Vorsorge und
Finanz planung (IVFP) studied 22 providers.
HDI-Gerling was given the top mark “excellent”
and thus ranks supreme in terms
of insurance cover, service, advice and
administration.
03/2011
top mArks for disAbility insurAnce
Analysts Morgen & Morgen give HDI-Gerling
five stars in their survey of disability
insurance products – and that despite
stricter criteria. The rating applies to several
products from the “EGO” product family.
04/2011
purchAses in ArgentinA
And uruguAy
Talanx is extending its presence on its
strategic target market of Latin America
by taking over two insurance companies:
L’UNION de Paris Cía. Argentina de Seguros
S. A. and L’Union de Paris Cía. Uruguaya de
Seguros S. A. The hitherto privately owned
companies had a staff of just on 140 in
the 2010 business year and generated a
premium volume of around EUR 44 million.
The two are to operate under the name of
HDI Seguros.
07/2011
new Acquisition in mexico
Talanx International AG takes over the
Mexican company Metropolitana Compañía
de Seguros. The portfolio comprises
mainly motor business and thus ideally
complements the Group’s activities in
Mexico: the already established HDI Seguros
likewise gets about 80% of its business from
the motor line. The two companies are to be
merged and will then rank among the top
ten motor insurers in Mexico.