GrECo Group Specialist Insurance and Risk Management News and Insights

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Industry Insights

Our Industry Specialists offer market insights and analyses about new developments in the insurance industry.

While the number of losses caused by fire is decreasing due to the constant development of preventive measures, the picture is quite the opposite for losses caused by natural hazards.
Why risk managers are taking up the cudgels for sustainable timber construction, and how the insurance market can be brought on board.
Rudolf Schiel, Competence Center Manager Property & Engineering at GrECo, spoke with Klaus Riechmann, Managing Director of the new Ecclesia Re, about the challenges of placing property insurance programmes and the role of the reinsurance market
The livestock supply-chain is one of the three major concerns and areas of activity of the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), aimed at increasing resilience in respect of threats and crises that affect agriculture, food and nutrition.
After a long-lasting debate in EU the so-called Macron law was put in force after several local implementations were applied on national level.
As the light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel comes into view, what can we expect when we return to the office? Unfortunately, times of uncertainty tend to also be the times of higher fraud and also times of blame.
GrECo Ukraine, together with insurance partner ARX Ukraine have launched the pilot project for the Affinity parametric insurance solution for Corteva Agriscience customers.
With the ESG spotlight upon us all, company’s need to meticulously craft their future communications strategies, making sure they truly understand the sustainable profile of their products, services, or activities.
Some industries, such as online retail or banking, handle large amounts of sensitive and possibly lucrative data. By the very fact that the services they offer are to a wide extent are virtual, the exposure is rather obvious.

Company News

Read about new developments, initiatives and business decisions in the GrECo Group.

With the new embedded insurance solution, all Viena saskaita customers are now insured with Payment Protection Insurance.
“While sales and acquisitions are inherently exciting, they require a clear strategy and methodology, coupled with patience due to potentially long buying cycles. The challenge lies in maintaining patience throughout the process.” – interview with Preslava Gencheva, new Strategic Sales Manager at GrECo Specialty.
“After five years of working in our Group, I would say that our people and our culture make GrECo a unique place to work. One is surrounded by experts and the best talent in the risk and insurance industry gives everybody the feeling that nothing is impossible.” – interview with Markus Neubrand, our new Head of Mergers & Acquisitions.
“We see the enormous growth potential of Health & Benefits in our region, and we aim to strengthen our value proposition in that area. ” – interview with Ewelina Jaworska-Bien, our new Health & Benefits Group Practice Leader.
With our client survey on the various environmental, social and governance topics, we wanted to find out where companies currently stand on ESG.
For many years we have been refraining from giving Christmas presents to our clients and partners and instead are supporting projects within our GrECo Foundation.
“My motivation is to find and develop new talents, create excellent teams and implement new ways of doing things, being the trendsetter in risk management and consultancy to help the customers protect and mitigate business risk and continuity. ” – interview with Vladimír John, our new Head of strategic partnership & business development in Czech Republic.
” Effective market development often requires a deep understanding of the region’s specific dynamics and the ability to tailor strategies accordingly ” – interview with Irma Ibrahimpasic-Hadzic, our new Group Market Developer.
Today, GrECo Bulgaria is one of the fastest-growing risk advisors and insurance brokers in the country and enjoys a strong presence in the market.

Petra Steininger

Head of Group Communications

T +43 5 04 04 – 175