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The history of Anadolu Sigorta celebrating 85th anniversary of its foundation has been published as a book titled "Anadolu Sigorta from the Past to the Future". Mustafa Su, General Manager of Anadolu Sigorta, said that the book is a reflection of the history of present financial sector and insurance industry from Tanzimat reform era through to today.
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1. Anadolu Sigorta wrote the history of insurance
The history of Anadolu Sigorta celebrating 85th anniversary of its foundation has been published as a book titled "Anadolu Sigorta from the Past to the Future". Mustafa Su, General Manager of Anadolu Sigorta, said that the book is a reflection of the history of present financial sector and insurance industry from Tanzimat reform era through to today.
2. Anadolu Sigorta also leads the Advertisers’ League
The Cat Report’s results prepared by taking into consideration the results of 5 advertisement competitions held in Turkey by Media Cat magazine and announced for third time this year, have been published. According to The Cat Report, Anadolu Sigorta was one of the two advertisers most awarded with their advertisements in year 2010.
3. Ski lovers are also being insured.
Those with overseas travel insurance from Anadolu Sigorta, will be able to be covered if injured in an accident while skiing or snowboarding during their travel, for their transportation by ambulance from where the accident happened to health institutions, and their medical treatment therein for up to 30 thousand Euros within the scope of coverage.
4. New period has started in ‘One Master Thousand Masters Project’
The program for the second year in ‘One Master Thousand Masters Project’ launched by Anadolu Sigorta at its 85th anniversary in order to increase interest in professions about to disappear in Anatolia has been given the go-ahead.
5. Worldwide retirement systems are on the verge of a tsunami according to Allianz’s survey.
According to Demographic Trends Survey published by Allianz in January 2011, the US is facing a pension tsunami. This problem will reach its peak in 2020 in the US. The same effect is expected to take place in Turkey in 2045.
6. 'Boats are sailing in confidence with Allianz'
A lot of additional risks such as Machinery Breakdown, Personal Belongings, Personal Accident for Boat Crew, Towing & Recovery are being covered with Allianz’s renovated yacht insurance.
7. Allianz is MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One ™ team sponsor
Allianz signed a sponsorship agreement with MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One ™.
8. Işıl Akyol, President (Marketing & Sales) and Executive Committee Member of AXA SİGORTA: ‘Our leadership is the result of long-term outlook’.
Işıl Akyol indicated that AXA SİGORTA’s decisions are taken in anticipation of how they will affect the company in future years as they have realized that short-term decisions directed to simply save the day and without any kind of basis behind them cause great harm to companies.
9. AXA INSURANCE, leader again in 2010
After 2008 and 2009, AXA INSURANCE is the leader of premium production of the insurance sector again in 2010.
10. MAPFRE GENEL SİGORTA renewes its data processing system
Cristina Şakı, The Director of Business Development, Corporate Communication, Customer Relations and Total Quality at MAPFRE stated that Webtronweb, the software developed by MAPFRE SOFT constantly renews itself and is open to development. Şakı said that the system is used in 15 countries.
11. Disney Live! back in Istanbul under ERGO’s assurance
‘Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival’ came back to Istanbul again with the main sponsorship of ERGO. The show was presented in Haliç Convention Center between January 26 and February 6, 2011 and was insured for 2.5 million TL under ERGO’s assurance.
12. Güneş Sigorta becomes the first elementary company to sign Global Compact
Güneş Sigorta becomes the first elementary company signing Global Compact, the most important document of corporate social responsibility in the world. The General Manager Serhat Süreyya Çetin said, “We are happy to pave the way for the insurance sector of Turkey.”
13. Special policy for Women’s Day from Güneş Sigorta
Güneş Sigorta created a special policy for Women’s Day to protect women’s health and to be by their side in times of sickness. The policy offers many assurances from mammography to dietician to consumers at affordable prices.
14. Aşkın Düşündere, Deputy General Manager of Technical and Actuary, Finance, Law and Legislative Harmonization and Human Resources,: “What matters is to establish life time partnerships.”
Düşündere stated that they grew up sturdily in a short period of time by means of the collaboration and synergy they established with their principal lender Finansbank.
15. Manager of Finans Emeklilik ve Hayat’s Technical and Actuary Group İsmail Aydemir:
We leap forward in the industry with our new products
Manager of Finans Emeklilik ve Hayat’s Technical and Actuary Group, İsmail Aydemir, said although it is a very new company, it always spends time on R&D studies regarding the company infrastructure, new distribution channels, coverage and products.
16. Agents of AXA SİGORTA: I would have preferred AXA SİGORTA again, if I were to begin career in this profession today
The results of the “agent satisfaction” research conducted by the independent research company Nielsen showed 95 percent of the agents are very satisfied with AXA SİGORTA.
17. AXA SİGORTA’s innovation awards are given
AXA SİGORTA Innovation Awards is organized in order to ensure the company strategies are adopted by the staff, to strengthen the corporate culture and to share the successful practices with other group companies in the world.
18. ING Emeklilik presents new products to its agents
ING Emeklilik has presented its “Annual Life Insurance products” which was begun to be sold through agents in January to its agents with meetings attended by the company’s high-level executives. The meetings, held in six provinces, met great interest from the agents.
19. General Manager of Sompo Japan Sigorta Recai Dalaş: Unattended paths should be taken to become successful and different
Defining the team work, management quality and the satisfaction of the company staff as the most important elements of success, the General Manager of Sompo Japan Sigorta Recai Dalaş underlined the importance of the ability to think in a different way.
20. Ray Sigorta stands with its agents
Sales Director of Ray Sigorta, Anıl Rasih Gülcen, said the sales team will continue to work on field alongside with the agents in 2011, adding, “We are aiming at a growth of 20 percent in 2011. We are going to support our agents with promotion campaigns in order to reach this target.”
21. VIG collects 8.7 billion euro premiums
Total amount of the premiums collected by Vienna Insurance Group is increased by 6.1 percent to 8.7 billion euro in 2010. VIG’s earnings before tax have increased by 15 percent to 505 million euro in 2010.
22. General Manager of Işık Sigorta Recep Koçak defined agents as the strongest aspect of the company
Recep Koçak said one of the first companies that come into the mind of an agent looking for an alternative company is Işık Sigorta. Recep Koçak said Işık Sigorta wants to improve its agents in any way, adding, “We are open to any recommendations aiming at increasing sales in profitable segment from our agents.”
23. Bursaspor fans covered by BURSASPOR Insurance HDI
HDI Sigorta, one of Turkey’s leading insurance companies, has sealed a deal with Bursaspor, the football champions of 2010 and the rising asset of the Turkish football. With the “BURSASPOR Insurance HDI” brand established under HDI Sigorta, the Bursaspor fans will be covered.
24. GSSİGORTA HDI branded first concept agent begins its operations
GSSİGORTA HDI brand, established with Turkey’s one of best-known sports clubs Galatasaray and German insurance giant HDI, was presented as a first in the sector. Under the project, the first concept agent under GSSİGORTA HDI was opened in Ankara’s Hoşdere district.
25. General Manager of Generali Sigorta Mine Ayhan: Generali Sigorta proceeds in the sector with sound steps
“We are at the beginning of the things we are planning to do,” says Mine Ayhan makes an ambitious statement: “With its reasonable pricing policy and ability of rapid claim payments in 2011, Generali Sigorta says ‘I do exist in this sector!’ with sound steps and stronger stance as it did up to date.”
26. Generali makes difference in MotoGP
The new race costumes and engines of Ducati pilot Valentino Rossi, who has nine world titles, and Nicky Hayden were presented under Generali sponsorship.
27. “ChinaHope School” to China from Generali
Generali Life Insurance Company operating in China has donated a new school after its donation of another school in Puer Yunnan region following the earthquake catastrophe in Guanghan in 2009.
28. LAND NOT SEEN in transportation insurance
Share of transportation insurance segment in the sector has reduced to 2 percent.
29. Insurance General Directorate of Undersecretary of Treasury: Our companies can do what foreigners do
“It is possible to do the insurances than can be made abroad in Turkey as well. In this context, desire of the insurance companies operating in our country to enter these segments is very important.”
30. Anadolu Sigorta General Manager Mustafa Su: The real problem is rejection of the insurance companies by banks
“With a legal regulation this issue can be resolved and such a solution will not aggrieve anybody while it will bring this issue into the framework which it supposed to be.”
31. Axa Sigorta’s Director of Corporate and Commercial Technique, Risk Engineering and Member of the Extended Executive Board, Orhan Kulil: Transportation insurance will develop if the rate of insured SMEs increase
“The rate of insured SMEs in Turkey is estimated to be around 15 to 20 percent. It could be helpful for the improvement of transportations insurance in terms of commodity if commodity products are added in the packages targeting SMEs.”
32. The Chairman of Beşiktaş Denizcilik İhsan Kalkavan: My ship sank, received lifeboat money from insurance
“They offered me 1.2 million dollar when I had an insurance of 2.5 million dollar. I filed a lawsuit and at the end of long years, only received money as much as a lifeboat. After years I established an insurance company, this time they submerged their ships and got money from us.”
33. Deputy Secretary General of Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Turkey (TSRŞB) Murat Dişçi: It is insurers’ mission
“It is the insurance companies’ obligation to present products that can compete with the foreign insurers to the market and to explain that these products are more advantageous compared to insurances made abroad.”
34. Mapfre Genel Sigorta’s Manager of Transportation Services Burcu Gürek: Registry and flag pardons will increase the number of ships with Turkish flag
“New pardons for registry and flag that can be issued will make positive contributions to increase the number of the ships with Turkish flag and the premium revenues of the Turkish insurance industry earned from yacht insurances.”
35. Ray Sigorta’s Transportation, Aviation and Liability Insurances Director Hande Gönül: Lack of knowledge exists in this segment as well
“In order to increase volumes in commodity insurances, the insurance knowledge in Turkey should be enhanced and the need of transportation policy should be explained better.”
36. Insurance Columnist Faruk Ömrüuzak: Element of the pressure is the trader
“Do you know which insurer are you dealing with? You don’t. You have to go to Bermuda to look for an insurer if there is damage. The element of pressure here is the trader.”
37. Climate changes increase investment risks, too
Climate change not only affects the environment but also the companies. The companies could face trillion dollars of costs unless new policies are developed in line with the changing conditions and an international deal is struck on the issue.
38. Costs of the lawsuits filed by stakeholders suffering a loss in the US are 15 billion dollar in the last decade.
39. Insurers relieved in 2010
Premium collected by the insurance sector in 2010 increased by 13.6 percent compared to 2009 and hit 14.125 billion lira. Although it did not completely recover, the sector whose insurance premium collection declined in real terms in 2009 has relieved.
40. SAB launches education campaign
SAB, declaring 2011 as the starting year of education campaign, has launched its education project. The inauguration speeches of the “Agents Staff Training” program held in Bahçeşehir University’s campus in Şişli on February 12-13 were made by the School Dean Azize Gökmen and the Chairman of SAB Ayşe Kılıç.
41. Executives of private pension companies shared their expectations for 2011.
They focused on the direct tax incentives.
Evaluating 2010 for the private pension system (BES) and sharing its expectations for 2011, the private pension industry turned its focus to direct tax incentives. The companies believe the tax incentives should be expanded in order to see a significant increase in the number of participants and if this is achieved, then the growth rate is expected to be in parallel with the one in 2010.
42. General Manager of Allianz Hayat ve Emeklilik Ömür Şengün: Practices should be designed to expand tax incentives
Speaking on his expectations for the year 2011, Şengün said, “The private pension companies should design practices with the aim of increasing tax incentive limits and this will also help the promotion of tax incentives.”
43. Finans Emeklilik General Manager Ajlan Sözütek: Increase in the number of participants will be parallel to last year
Sözütek said for many sectors, 2010 was the year of recovery, adding, “Our expectation for the increase of net participants in 2011 is that it will be parallel to the levels in 2010 and will be around 13-14 percent.”
44. ING Emeklilik CEO Jetse de Vries: We have to put emphasize on tax advantage with joint campaigns
Jetse de Vries said the participants increasingly notice the private pension system is actually a savings system each year, adding, they can put more emphasize on the tax advantages with campaigns such as ‘Give 100 lira, take 125 lira back.’
45. Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik’s Deputy General Manager Uğur Erkan: We will reach 5 million participants in 2020
Uğur Erkan said, “We expect the private pension system to reach approximately to 5 million participants and to a size of 115 billion lira in 2020.”
46. Lovely couple of TV and theatre, Uygur brothers: We became each other’s insurance
Uygur brothers say walking together as two brothers in the joyous but difficult path of theatre allowed them to create long-lasting works. Behzat Uygur said they had distributed the tasks among them in time, adding, “We became each other’s insurance.”
47. Istanbul will pay highest premium, while Tunceli will pay the lowest
The premium rates of the Compulsory Traffic Insurance were re-set. The premiums of Compulsory Traffic Insurance differ from a city to another and in 2011 Tunceli will be the lowest premium paying city with 127 lira, while Istanbul became the highest again with TL 342.
48. Anadolu Hayat reaches to 150,000 housewives
According to EGM data dated January 21, 2011, the number of Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik’s participants has reached to 510,069.
49. 'Legal regulations are increasing respectability of the sector'
84.2 percent of visitors voting for the survey on the subject: "Following existing legal regulation, it has become more difficult to establish a new agency. How do you think this situation affects the sector?" have voted for the legislation to have increased the respectability of the sector.
50. Graduates from two-year insurance studies are having a hard time
The Board of Higher Education has changed the curriculum by combining Banking and Insurance departments under one single roof. School administrators, who say that the merger would decrease the efficiency of programs, are worried that the situation of two-year college graduates already having difficulty finding employment will deteriorate even more.
51. Erhan Tunçay, Secretary-General of TSRŞB: The sector is unable to benefit from its graduates
Tunçay underlining the fact that young insurance studies graduates only constitute 1 to 3 percent of the employees in the sector, said: "This situation indicates that the sector is unable to fully benefit from its graduates".
52. Prof Dr Aydın Karapınar, Director of Gazi University Banking and Insurance Academy: We are training experts to meet the needs of the sector
"We shall not experience any problem as regard to employment in the sector because we shall have our students graduate as informed about issues needed and requested by the sector."
53. Fuat Çamlıbel, Chairman of Cumhuriyet University MYO Finance & Banking and Insurance Department: The majority of scholars are inadequate in the subject of insurance.
Çamlıbel said that the students graduated from Banking and Insurance department, could find jobs in different parts of the sector albeit not in adequate quantities.
54. Lale Yolsel, Education Director of Istanbul Bilgi University Insurance, Finance & Risk Management Centre: There are still opportunities in the sector.
"There are still opportunities in the sector despite the problems such as giving employment priority to the undergraduate degree holders"
55. Assistant Assoc Prof Özlem Seçim, Akdeniz University, Social Sciences Vocational School Banking and Insurance Program Coordinator: Sector is still looking for staff through acquaintances.
"If Banking and Insurance program coordinators have strong relationships with the sector, they can ensure recruitment of graduates."
56. Assistant Assoc Prof Feride Hayırsever, Bilecik University Bozüyük Vocational School Banking and Insurance Department Lecturer: The two-year graduates are being overtaken by the four-year ones.
"The rate of employment of two-year graduates is very low in accordance with the preference of four-year graduates for recruitment in the sector. It also takes a long time for these graduates to make their way up in banks or insurance companies."
57. The graduates’ rate is higher in insurance than in banking.
77 percent of 177 thousand 369 people employed by banks are university graduates as of September 2010. More than 83 percent of 18 thousand 841 people employed in insurance sector are university graduates as of end of year 2009. Whereas the ratio of female employees in banking is around 50 per cent, this ratio exceeds 55 percent in insurance.
58. TSEV Seminar Series has begun.
The Seminar Series being realized by TSEV for the fourth time this year is being held from 23rd February to 10th March 2011. Ertuğrul Bul, Dr M. Can Baydarol, Prof Dr Taner Berksoy, Engin Güvenç and Ercan Tutal are attending the seminars as speakers.
59. Changes in Turkish Commercial Code and Obligations Act are on the sector’s agenda.
Two new training programs within the context of "Regulatory Compliance Training Programs" have been prepared by TSEV in order to transfer the changes in the Turkish Commercial Code and Obligations Act in to the sector.
60. Education in Yaşar University with TSEV - Ray Sigorta collaboration.
24th Insurance Training Seminar prepared by TSEV will be held on 1st March 2011 in Yaşar University, Izmir sponsored by "Ray Sigorta". |
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