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Anadolu Sigorta to share its income from sea with TURMEPA Anadolu Sigorta will allocate a share of its income from insurance policies it sold to the sea vessels to TURMEPA. Speaking on the issue Mustafa Su said, “Anadolu Sigorta, the insurance company of Turkey, is the guardian and supporter of all values of our country.”
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TCIP Chairman Selamet Yazıcı: TCIP extends all kinds of support to the agencies
Yazıcı said reminders are sent to the policy holders ahead of the expiration of their policies. “Most of the insurees are willing to renew their policies. In such case, we call the insuree’s agency to have them to start the necessary procedures for the renewal,” Yazıcı added.
Change in the management of MAPFRE GENEL SİGORTA
MAPFRE GENEL SİGORTA’s Vice President Pedro Lopez Solanes succeeded Javier Fernandez-Cid as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. General Manager Serdar Gül has overtaken the Vice President post.
MAPFRE GENEL SİGORTA Auto Underwriting and Agency Marketing Group Director İlker Sırtıkırmızı: Being a MAPFRE agency is a unique experience…
Ilker Sırtıkırmızı said the most important sales channel of the MAPFRE GENEL SİGORTA is the agents. “We do not see them only as our sales channels but also as our business partners, our representative in the market, our spokespeople, our friends who overtake the most important part of our job,” Sırtkırmızı said.
ERGO SİGORTA Vice General Manager Cem Köylüoğlu spoke on the health insurances: We expect supplementary health insurance to begin in 2012
ERGO SİGORTA Assistant General Manager Cem Köylüoğlu said the growth in the health insurance segment will accelerate with the supplementary products, adding that this practice will begin in 2012. Köylüoğlu noted that the ERGOCAN Health Insurance launched in August attracted great interest.
Vice General Manager Taner Senseven:
Güneş Sigorta wins by investing in its employees
The human resources play a crucial role in companies’ efforts to keep the sustainable competitive structures in free market economy of our day, said Taner Senseven adding, the Güneş Sigorta has started to bear the fruits of the investments it made to this area.
Women labor develops with Micro Credit and taken under assurance by MikroSigorta
The works of 55,000 women supported under the “Turkey Grameen Micro Credit” program of the Prevention of Dissipation Association of Turkey have been taken under the coverage of “MikroSigorta” by the Güney Sigorta. Insurance policies were given to the women, one from each province as a representative, using micro credit at the ceremony which was attended by the Nobel laureate economist Prof Muhammad Yunus, the inventor of the micro credit project, as well as Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Şahin and the European Union Minister Egemen Bağış as the speakers.
Joint policy of HDI management: TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION
The newly appointed managers of the HDI Sigorta expressed their desire to create a workplace atmosphere in which the employees enjoy. The joint target of the management is to have a transparent communication policy in all business processes.
A huge training push by ING Emeklilik which will train the sales channels with ING School project that will be launched in 2012
ING Emeklilik is set to launch ING School project in order to strengthen its sales network in 2012. Vice General Manager İhsan Çevik said trainings will be provided to ING Emeklilik sales teams and agencies under the ING School project.
Generali Sigorta ambitious for 2012: Generali to be the first company that comes into mind on the house insurance
Mine Ayhan: We are going to launch brand new products alongside with the existing house insurance policies in 2012. Our research and studies on this issue are underway. We are getting ready to develop the most detailed and the most ambitious products in the industry.
AEGON Emeklilik ve Hayat General Manager Uğur Tozşekerli:
Our push in the life segment to continue in 2012
Tozşekerli said the company has recorded 100 percent growth for two consecutive years thanks to the push made in the life segments, adding, “The major drivers of our success are the multi distribution channels strategy, the investments we made in the human resources and technology as well as offering products that are compatible with the customers’ life cycles.”
General Manager Levent Şişmanoğlu: “We are going to be aggressive in profitable segments and deliberate in the segments that are not profitable.” Ray Sigorta focuses on productivity and profit
Ray Sigorta General Manager Levent Şişmanoğlu said the company will pursue an aggressive growth in segments which they believe are profitable, however will be more conservative in the unprofitable branches.
Computer training was provided to 18 young women under the social responsibility project of Aviva Sigorta
KIDS MOVE FROM “Streets to Schools”
The “From Streets to Schools” social responsibility project launched by Aviva Sigorta in 2008 continues to bear its fruits. Seven students of Yeditepe University, a supporter of the project, have collected a record donation of 13,000 lira.
Işık Sigorta General Manager Recep Koçak: Foreign interest to the industry does not slowdown
Speaking on the convergence between the Turkish insurance regulations and the EU legislation and the importance of the Turkey’s geographical advantages, Recep Koçak said, “Moreover, our country continues to be attractive given the minimum impact of the global economic crisis and the fact that it is among the countries which will profit from this period.”
TSRSB executives met press members in Şile
The industrial executives and the members of the press came together at the weekend event organized by The Association of the Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Turkey on December 2 and 4, 2011. The recent developments in the insurance industry were debated at the event which became more colorful with the backgammon tournament, movie presentation, match broadcasting and sightseeing.
Recent developments in the European insurance industry were discussed
The recent developments in the European insurance industry were discussed with the industry representatives in the light of the Solvency II which the global insurance industry is getting ready for at a discussion panel hosted by TSRSB. Life and non-life segments were among the topics of the panel which also drew huge participation from abroad.
The panel titled “Turkey’s Earthquake Reality” organized by SAB was held in Istanbul on December 14, 2012.
Measures against earthquake are insufficient
The participants of the “Turkey’s Earthquake Reality” panel organized by the SAB Insurance Agencies Association in Istanbul underlined that the measures taken in Turkey against the earthquakes are insufficient and this reality was once again proved by the earthquake in Van.
Insurance Director General of Undersecretariat of Treasury Dr. Ahmet Genç:
Industry does not face non-profitability problem as it did in the past
Genç said a part of the loss has been met, adding, “I think that there is no non-profitability problem compared to the past when the impacts of some new technical reserve practices and the methods of calculation of technical reserves which began to be implemented after 2005.”
Insurance agencies summit in the Black Sea…
The problems of the industry were put on the table at the 8th Insurance Agencies Summit of Turkey in Trabzon organized by TUSAF and hosted by TUSID. The communiqué issued at the end of the summit underlined that the agencies are not the responsible of the technical loss seen in the insurance industry.
Damages from disasters coupled in worldwide compared to the previous year
According to the Sigma report issued by Swiss Re, the total cost of the damages caused by natural and man-induces disasters to the global insurance industry is 108 billion dollars in 2011. The total economic cost of the disasters set a record by exceeding 350 billion dollars.
Hopefully, the new one be better than the old
The year 2011 failed to satisfy the insurance industry as the 2010 did. Even though the production increase in the first nine months was at the satisfying levels, the non-life segments continued to record loss this year. The overall expectation of the industry for 2012 is that it doesn’t be worse than the last year.
Anadolu Sigorta General Manager Mustafa Su:
New foreign investors may come
We expect to see the number of foreign insurance companies to increase due to the potential of the low insurance rate in our country. Besides this, we may see consolidation of some partners because of the negative consequences of the competition.
Güneş Sigorta General Manager Serhat Süreyya Çetin:
Industry changes the course
We have changed the course as a result of the new legislation and the industrial practices. Insurance is a sector which depends on the economic situation. We see strong signs that the economic growth will continue in the coming period as well.
Mapfre Genel Sigorta General Manager Serdar Gül:
We can’t see signs of the bold steps needed in traffic segment
Lack of new measures in the first half of 2011 means losses will be recorded in the first half of 2012. Radical and bold steps should be taken in traffic insurances and unfortunately, we cannot see the signs of this.
Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik General Manager Mete Uğurlu:
2011 was a great year for Private Pension System
The year 2011 was one of the greatest years for the Private Pension System. In the first 10.5 months, the net increase in the number of participants was more than the previous three years. The net increase in the number of the participants, which hovered around 250,000-280,000 in the last years, reached 330,000 before the year end. That means 2011 was a great year
Finans Emeklilik General Manager Ajlan Sözütek:
Number of participants to increase by 13-14 percent
As the employer group pension plans have accelerated in 2010 and 2011, the corporate participations may increase as a result of potential new legal regulations and increased tax advantages.
Generali Sigorta General Manager Mine Ayhan:
Industry should grow in non-auto
All companies are in fierce competition due to the low level of insurance policies. The major driver for development will be to widen the reach of insurances to non-auto segments and to increase the number of the insured.
Ray Sigorta General Manager Levent Şişmanoğlu:
Significant increases to be seen in engine rates in 2012
Ray Sigorta General Manager Levent Şişmanoğlu said the sector generally grew in 2011, however the spare part prices in the automobile industry rose above the inflation rate. He expects to see realistic and significant increases in the engine rates in 2012.
Ergo Sigorta General Manager Mert Ekitmen:
We have reached most of our targets
We have taken important steps to achieve a more balanced and profitable structure in terms of bringing the premium ratios of the segments except the automobile in our portfolio to the market average. We have offered our car insurance policy to our agencies and insurees by making them more compatible.
Milli Reasürans General Manager Hulki Yalçın:
No big price increases expected in reinsurance
The reinsurance rates were expected to increase following the earthquake in Japan. In fact, it is normal to see price increases in the damaged areas; however we did not see any significant price increases in the areas that are not damaged. In some regions, this rate is as low as 5 to 10 percent.
Türk Nippon Sigorta Vice General Manager of Financial Affairs Cem Ekiz:
Growth without profit to continue in 2012
Türk Nippon Sigorta’s Vice General Manager of Financial Affairs Cem Ekiz said the industry is expected to grow by 19 percent in nominal terms and around 8 percent in real terms in non-life segments in 2011.
GESİD Co-Chairman and Board Member and Vice General Manager of Chartis Sigorta Sema Bulutlu:
Tens of thousands of employees serve to the balance sheet losses
Our people spent seriously more than it earns. They count on the stability and this is good for us, the insurance companies. We cannot benefit from this mood. Tens of thousands of employees serve to the losses in the balance sheets.
The Chairman of Insurance Agencies Association of Istanbul Turusan Bağcı: 50 event at the 50th year of ISAD
At ISAD we have planned to organize 50 events in our 50th anniversary. We have planned these activities in the light of the insurance promotion and awareness strategies. The budget of most of the activities are prepared, the preliminary talks and permissions are completed. |
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