Annual Report 2017

Through our collaboration with insurtech companies, we are able to provide our clients with optimal solutions to enhance their digital sales processes and customer engagement.

Innovative insurtech apps simplify lengthy application processes and enable contract formation in just a few clicks.

By combining digital technologies, emerging distribution channels and insurance expertise, insurtech companies are transforming the market.

Vision creates value.

Through predictability.

The importance of insurance protection for agricultural land and livestock is increasing, both in developed countries and in emerging markets.

By 2050, the world’s population will have grown to about nine billion. How to feed people in a sustainable way will continue to be a major challenge of our time.

Our reinsurance products contribute substantially to hedging against crop failure and stabilising the world’s food situation.

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One in three adults monitors their health with fitness trackers and lifestyle apps.
Primary insurers utilise lifestyle apps to increase customer retention and encourage users to consider preventive healthcare resulting in reduced insurance costs.
Together with our partners, we develop innovative insurance models that provide personalised advice and insurance services based on data from lifestyle apps.

Global reinsurance capital of around USD 440 billion provides long-term protection for investments and assets.
Rating agencies certify our excellent financial strength, which we have maintained despite financial crises and natural disasters.
Hannover Re is the world’s third-largest reinsurer.

Through our collaboration with insurtech companies, we are able to provide our clients with optimal solutions to enhance their digital sales processes and customer engagement.
Innovative insurtech apps simplify lengthy application processes and enable contract formation in just a few clicks.
By combining digital technologies, emerging distribution channels and insurance expertise, insurtech companies are transforming the market.

Our experts assess our customers’ cyber risks and offer them custom-made protection coverage.
In 2016, 700 million people in 21 countries were affected by some form of cybercrime.
The average total cost of a data breach for a business is USD 3.8 million.

The importance of insurance protection for agricultural land and livestock is increasing, both in developed countries and in emerging markets.
By 2050, the world’s population will have grown to about nine billion. How to feed people in a sustainable way will continue to be a major challenge of our time.
Our reinsurance products contribute substantially to hedging against crop failure and stabilising the world’s food situation.

Natural disasters cause damage to property, which can in turn trigger production losses and business interruptions.
Extreme weather events are coming up against rising insured values: In 2017, insured losses from natural disasters amounted to more than USD 100 billion worldwide.
We settle claims quickly and straightforwardly to keep downtimes as short as possible.

Annual Report 2017

Vision creates value.

Through financial strength.

Vision creates value.

Through innovation.

Vision creates value.

Through predictability.

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