Rentenalstalt

Swiss Life Holding AG

Swiss Life AG headquarters in Zurich.
Formerly called	Rentenanstalt
Type	Aktiengesellschaft
Traded as	SIX: SLHN
Industry	Financial services
Founded	1857; 160 years ago (1857)
Founder	Conrad Widmer
Headquarters	Zurich, Switzerland
Area served	Mostly Europe
Key people	Patrick Frost (CEO), Rolf Dörig (Chairman)
Products	Life insurance, Risk, Pensions and financial solutions, Asset management, Health insurance (France only)
Revenue	CHF 18.853 bn (2015)
Operating income	CHF 1.3 bn (2015)
Profit	CHF 878 million (2015)
AUM	CHF 185 bn (2015)
Total equity	CHF 12.2 bn (2015)
Number of employees	7,595
Divisions	Swiss Life Switzerland Swiss Life France Swiss Life Germany Swiss Life International Swiss Life Asset Managers
Subsidiaries	List Swiss Life Select Switzerland Swiss Life Select Germany Swiss Life Select Austria Swiss Life Select Czech Republic Livit AG (Switzerland) Corpus Sireo (Germany) Tecis (Germany) HORBACH (Germany) Proventus (Germany) Chase de Vere (UK) Mayfair Capital (UK)
Website	http://www.swisslife.com

The Swiss Life Group is the largest life insurance company of Switzerland and one of Europe’s leading comprehensive life and pensions and financial solutions providers, with approximately CHF 185 bn of assets under management. Founded in 1867 in Zurich as the Schweizerische Lebensversicherungs und Rentenanstalt cooperative, the company entered the Swiss stock market in 1997 and adopted its current name in 2002. In 2015 the group declared a premium income of CHF 18.9 bn, a 5% increase over the previous year. Swiss Life is one of the twenty companies listed under the Swiss Market Index, as SLHN.

Conrad Widmer established the Schweizerische Rentenanstalt in 1857 as the first life insurance company in Switzerland, backed by guarantees from Schweizerische Kreditanstalt. Prominent Zurich politician Alfred Escher was integrally involved in the development of the cooperative, whose goal was to provide Swiss families with a sufficiently solid foundation by providing insurance against the uncertainties of life: the company's Board included representatives of most Swiss Cantons. In 1866, Widmer obtains a license in Prussia, and a year later, the annuity establishment had business operations in Hamburg and Bremen. Beginning in 1894, the establishment was one of the first insurance institutions to offer occupational insurance. Between 1866 and 1987, Rentenanstalt expanded to Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Luxembourg, and Italy. In 1988 it took over La Suisse insurance company in Lausanne.