The Swiss Life Network
Transcript of The Swiss Life Network
Swiss Life Network
General-Guisan-Quai 40
P.O. Box, 8022 Zurich
Switzerland
T +41 43 284 37 97
F +41 43 284 39 97
www.swisslife-network.com960
815
-12.
2011
The Swiss Life NetworkYour comprehensive employee benefits provider
The Swiss Life Network is your single source for
SuperiorWorldwideInnovativeSoundSustainable
international employee benefit solutions.
SWISS
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Contents
The Swiss Life Network – your international employee benefits provider 4
Our solutions and services – comprehensive and customised 6
The Swiss Life Group – a truly solid foundation 8
Our offer – Swiss quality you can rely on 10
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The Swiss Life Network – your international employee benefits provider
The challenges of complexity, compliance and
cost-efficiency
Whatever the size of your company’s operations abroad,
you face increasing complexity in the employee benefits
area. This may be due to having more countries to manage,
but beyond this, there are increasing compliance pressures
and constantly changing employee benefit requirements.
At the same time, cuts in social security benefits are putting
greater demands on corporate employee benefit plans in
many countries. And with costs continuing to rise, em ployee
benefits are a focus of growing concern on the management
agenda.
Your trusted partner for all employee benefit issues
worldwide
Fortunately, there is a proven and effective way for multi-
nationals to respond to this situation. By entrusting your
local employee benefit plans to an international network of
providers like the Swiss Life Network, you ensure expertise,
transparency and a single point of contact to help you
more easily manage complexity, secure compliance, increase
cost-efficiency, and gain top-quality solutions and services
for your plans around the globe.
The pioneer global employee benefits network
The Swiss Life Network established the insurance concepts
behind international employee benefit programmes in
1962. Starting with multinational risk pooling, we rapidly
expanded our offer to cover a broad range of products and
services, including pensions. Today we remain one of the
globe’s leading networks, at the forefront of developing
comprehensive, high-quality employee benefit solutions for
all your death, disability, medical and retirement benefit
needs, and distinguished by the stability and excellence of
our long-term relationships with clients and business
partners.
Swiss quality standards around the world
Every Swiss Life Network Partner meets highly
demanding requirements:• Top local life and pension insurer• Financially sound• Comprehensive, innovative product range• Excellent service quality• Strong group/corporate business portfolio• Extensive experience with multinationals.
Swiss expertise and service quality
The Swiss Life Network is headquartered in Zurich, Switzer -
land. From here our multilingual team of experienced
professionals are in daily contact with Network Partners
serving you locally around the globe. Our experts will help
you to evaluate and make complex business decisions on
employee benefits for your company, meeting your needs
effectively, efficiently and reliably wherever you need our
help. Since our client relationship function is regionally
organised to mirror our clients’ business structures, we have
regional client management teams in Asia, the Americas
and Latin America, as well as client managers in all the main
European centres.
Global coverage, local leadership
The Swiss Life Network is made up of over 60 leading local
life insurance and business partners covering some 80 coun-
tries and territories where multinational corporations
operate. Each Network Partner provides a full range of flex-
ible and competitive local risk and pension coverages, and
high-quality, fast and efficient service. In addition, every
Network Partner offers the expertise you need to maintain
an overview of local legal, tax and political developments
affecting employee benefits.
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The Swiss Life Network’s international employee benefit
programmes let you monitor and control your local risk
and saving plans. In addition, we provide expert advice
and support for every aspect of local and global employee
benefit solutions.
Every solution is tailored to your requirements
There’s no standard Swiss Life Network package. Our unique
modular system lets you design a customised international
employee benefit programme to meet your organisation’s
exact requirements and risk profile. Naturally, the para-
meters can be changed as circumstances require.
Risk solutions with multinational pooling options
Swiss Life Network Partners provide a comprehensive range
of competitive risk solutions including death and long-
and short-term disability and dismemberment risk cover-
ages for illness or accident, which are available for both
local and mobile employees.
Furthermore, whether through a company-specific pool or
our multi-client pool, multinational pooling allows you to
spread your insured risks and optimise the costs of your
employee benefit coverages around the world. You benefit
from a high degree of transparency on both global and
local levels, and gain a wealth of valuable information.
Our solutions and services – comprehensive and customised
Pension solutions
The Swiss Life Network provides a range of innovative and
highly flexible pension plans – including European pension
solutions under the EU IORP Directive. We are experts
at designing efficient and cost-effective plans to suit your
organisation’s requirements, ensuring that your solution is
always fully in compliance with the relevant legislation.
Medical coverages
As a Swiss Life Network client, you can ensure top quality,
comprehensive medical coverage and health assistance
for your employees through our association with leading
international health insurers. Coverage is available for
both local and internationally mobile staff.
Expatriate packages
Expatriates and Third Country Nationals require special
compensation and benefits packages. We have the expertise
to establish customised, cost-effective expatriate solutions
covering death, disability, retirement and medical needs
in line with your corporate guidelines. Repatriation and
evacuation plans are also available.
Captive solutions
Swiss Life Network’s exclusive tailor-made solutions allow
you to make the most of your in-house captive and achieve
the improved business and efficiency results you seek.
Asset management
Our quality asset management services are designed for
security, long-term potential and yield. Delivered by proven
specialists with years of experience managing retirement
funds, we offer a broad selection of appropriate investment
opportunities.
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CaptiveSolutions
CustomisedSolutions
AssetManagement
MultinationalPooling
Up to dateInformation
Expertise Advice
Prevention
Commercial andTechnical Administration
Client RelationshipManagement
Expatriate& TCN
solutions
International& Europeanpensions
Local EB Schemesretirement, death, disabilityaccident, health, assistance
Advice and information
Swiss Life Network experts use their know-how to help set
up and maintain optimal employee benefits programmes.
We also offer access to information and advice from human
resources, risk management and financial services specialists.
Our uniquely transparent reports help you to monitor your
benefit plans and benchmark them against industry
standards. We provide excellent online tools that give you
immediate, up-to-date information on your plans.
In addition, you receive regularly updated information on
employee benefits worldwide.
We have the solutions to meet your needs
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The Swiss Life Group – a truly solid foundation
Corporate Clients’ product offering is modular, and includes
all the necessary elements to create appropriate and custom-
ised solutions for you:• You can select from a variety of risk pooling options for
your risk coverages that ensure optimised risk spreading
and costs for your company.• Our experts use their extensive cross-border experience to
develop specialist solutions for TCNs and expatriates out
of Luxembourg. We also take advantage of Luxembourg’s
attractive EU location to manage a European Pension
Fund that offers international and European pension
solutions under the IORP Directive to large corporate
clients and multinationals. • If you prefer to retain a portion of your company’s risks,
we offer reinsurance solutions for use in conjunction
with your corporate captive.
The Swiss Life Network is backed by the Swiss Life Group
As a major player in the international life and pension
market, the Swiss Life Group is a leading provider of long-
term savings and risk protection, and is committed to
helping its customers create a secure financial future for life.
You can find more details about the Swiss Life Group on
the Swiss Life website: www.swisslife.com
Swiss values you can rely on
The Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Company was founded
in Zurich in 1857. Originally established as a mutual, we
became a stock company in 1997. Swiss Life was the first
life insurer established in Switzerland, and we are a leading
provider for employee benefits in the Swiss market today.
The Swiss insurance industry is recognised as one of the
safest and most respected in the world. We are proud
to maintain its values of quality, integrity, stability and
security wherever we work around the globe.
Committed to corporate clients
The Swiss Life Network is operated by the Swiss Life Group’s
transnational business unit Corporate Clients. This unit
also runs the life and pension insurance business for cor p-
orate clients in Luxembourg and for expatriates around the
globe. Thanks to the expertise and close working relation-
ships of these different business lines, corporate clients and
multinationals are assured of the highest quality risk and
retirement employee benefit solutions.
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Our offer – Swiss quality you can rely on
You benefit from:
• An extensive range of high-quality local and international
employee benefit solutions• Innovative and flexible international programmes
tailored to your needs• Superior levels of service from a multilingual provider• Overall cost reductions through increased effectiveness
and efficiency• Advice and expertise on an international level• In-depth knowledge of local legislation and regulations• Transparent, extensive and regular reporting and
information• A financially-sound network centre with an outstanding
international reputation• Almost 50 years of experience as a leading employee
benefits network• Practical, user-friendly online tools to monitor your
employee benefits schemes
Select your areas of interest
• Local employee benefit schemes
(retirement, death, disability, accident, health, assistance)• International and European pension solutions• International medical plans• Expatriate packages• Multinational pooling options• Captive solutions• Asset management • Online access to international programme data• Advice and expertise (consulting, publications, events, etc.)
The Swiss Life Network is your single source for
SuperiorWorldwideInnovativeSoundSustainable
international employee benefit solutions.
SWISS
Swiss Life Network
General-Guisan-Quai 40
P.O. Box, 8022 Zurich
Switzerland
T +41 43 284 37 97
F +41 43 284 39 97
www.swisslife-network.com960
815
-12.
2011
The Swiss Life NetworkYour comprehensive employee benefits provider