Institute for Risk & Insurance
«Insurers play a vital role in our economy and society. They help to prevent risks and to bear their impact. Our alumni contribute to this role with innovative and sustainable solutions. We therefore strive to impart the necessary competencies, be it in teaching as well as in further education. Our state-of-the-art research and publication activities provide the necessary foundation.»
Prof. Dr. Angela Zeier Röschmann, Co-Head of Institute for Risk & Insurance,
Dr. Jürg Portmann, Co-Head of Institute for Risk & Insurance
The Institute of Risk & Insurance (IRI) is a leading competence centre for the insurance industry, offering education and continuing education programmes for various professional profiles as well as applied research in insurance management. Positioned at the interface between academia and practice, the Institute encourages innovative solutions and dialogue on current issues.
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Core Competencies
Our institute covers the core areas of insurance management: strategic management, sales management, underwriting, process management, claims management and risk management. Our team combines many years of professional experience in these fields. The graphic provides an overview of our key thematic focus areas.
Research and Consulting
In applied research, we prefer to focus on new questions that arise due to changes or challenges in today's insurance industry. In the course of our lively exchange with knowledge carriers in the industry, we repeatedly find that structured thinking and research work can make an important value contribution to sustainable development in the insurance industry. It is in our nature to approach this task in a practical and scientific way. Thanks to our team and its national and international networking in academia and industry practice, we are able to gather the full range of necessary knowledge and make it particularly useful for our research partners. Please contact us if you have a particular topics in your mind, that you want to follow up.
The boundaries between research and consulting are not clearly defined for application-oriented issues. For this reason, most of our consulting projects contain aspects of research and vice-versa. We offer consultancy services in the following areas:
- Management of insurance companies
- Personal and professional pension funds
- Actuarial practice
- Marketing & CRM
- Insurance sales
- Process and risk management for insurance companies
Examples of current assignments include market analysis, the preparation of development scenarios, and the creation of a concept for a specific problem.