History
 
The roots and the traditions of a company founded more than 150 years ago enables Swiss Life to build on its traditional strengths in the life insurance and pension business: product knowledge and risk expertise, the quality of its advice and services and well-established high-performance sales networks.
Headquarters in Zurich 1940
 
 
Historic Dates
2010 Swiss Life enters the Austrian market
2008 Strategic partnership with the AWD Group
Branch office set up in Singapore
Sales location set up in Dubai
Banca del Gottardo sold
Subsidiaries in Belgium and the Netherlands sold
2007 CapitalLeben in Liechtenstein acquired
Sale of ERISA and ERISA IARD in France
2006 Italian subsidiary sold
2005 Integration life operations of «La Suisse» into Swiss Life
Subsidiary set up in Liechtenstein
2004 Swiss Life UK life business sold
Simplified brand structure and new corporate identity for Swiss Life
2003 Spanish subsidiary sold
Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft STG sold
2002 Swiss Life Holding set up
Exchange of Swiss Life/Rentenanstalt shares
2001 Properties belonging to Oscar Weber Holding AG acquired
2000 Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft STG acquired
1999 Lloyd Continental (France) acquired
UTO Albis acquired
Banca del Gottardo acquired
UBS's 49% stake in Livit Ltd acquired
1998 Swiss/Life Rentenanstalt shares in Swiss Market Index
1997 Transformation into public limited company
1988 Lausanne-based «La Suisse» acquired
1987 Subsidiary set up in Italy
1985 Subsidiary set up in Luxembourg
1975 Subsidiary set up in Spain
1967 Subsidiary set up in Great Britain
1962 Initial launch of Swiss Life Network
1955 Branch established in Belgium
1901 Branch established in the Netherlands
1898 Branch established in France
1866 Branch established in Germany
1857 Schweizerische Rentenanstalt established in Zurich