Under pressure from analysts, Swiss Life may sell its subsidiary Banca del Gottardo.
In particular, the successful example of Swiss Life, which has seen its shares more than double since it fully demutualised last July, is giving some German mutual insurers food for thought.
Meanwhile, the banking commission is less worried by Credit Suisse than by conglomerates with a heavier insurance component, such as Zurich Financial Services and Swiss Life, both of which own Swiss banks.
Swiss life companies are also sickly.
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The other, a former mayor in the province of Gitarama, was sentenced a year ago to life imprisonment by a Swiss military court.
The real-life incarnation of the Swiss hydra we have now.
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According to Clarence Wong of Swiss Re, a reinsurer, life-insurance premiums in the first seven months of this year were 39% higher than in the same period in 2002.
There was some caution among the brand officials, but overall, life remains good in the Swiss watch industry.
In another life Mark Zylstra might have been a Swiss watchmaker.
Nestle, the Swiss company that makes Poland Spring, Nestle Pure Life, Deer Park and other brands, has nearly half of the share of the bottled water market.
The guidelines were the result of a case brought by Debbie Purdy, a terminally ill woman, who in 2009 won a ruling from the law lords requiring the DPP to set out whether her husband would be committing an offence if he accompanied her to Dignitas, the Swiss assisted-suicide organisation, to end her life.
Three years ago, I met a Swiss Islamic convert named Ahmed Huber, who began his life as a devotee of Adolf Hitler and moved on to praising former Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led that nation's Islamic revolution and vigorously opposed U.S. policies.
The writer spoke to Robert Uetz, a Swiss engineer who lives a nearly two-thousand-watt life.
It got a taste of the international life in 1975 when it swallowed Soder ag, a Swiss company founded in 1900 as a manufacturer of mills for the food industry.
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The fraud he masterminded was remarkable for its scale, longevity and the sophistication of its victims: hedge-fund founders, Swiss banks and movie moguls, as well as charities and small investors, some of whom put in their life savings.
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