1.Anadolu Sigorta extends its support to Urartian heritage of niello
Providing trainings to many new masters under its “One Thousand Masters, One Thousand Projects” initiative aimed at bringing the forgotten professions to light, Anadolu Sigorta has contributed to the education of 20 masters with its support to Van’s niello silver works which have its roots back to Urartus.
2.Digital Leap from Allianz
Allianz takes its brand communication to the digital platform. The first campaign of Allianz, which acts on the grounds to ensure a constant and sustainable communication on digital platforms, is “Passes Fast in a Decade”.
3.First step in the complementary health insurance comes from MAPFRE GENEL
MAPFRE GENEL SIGORTA is the main sponsor of the conference on “Complementary Health Insurance” which will be held in Sheraton Maslak Hotel in Istanbul on October 21, 2011 to discuss the private insurance system and its relations with the private hospitals in Turkey.
4.ERGO takes your loved ones to protection circle with its “My Family Under Guarantee” Insurance
ERGO’s “My Family Under Guarantee” is developed to prevent any suffering of family members if the one in the family who provides financial resources is injured or killed by natural causes or in an accident. It takes life standards of the insurer’s loved ones under 360 degree of protection and assurance.
5.Güneş Sigorta team challenging in ‘the biggest competition in water’
Güneş Sigorta participated in the Dragon Boat Corporate Tournament, organized by Canoe Federation of Turkey for the first time in Turkey. The women, men and mixed teams of Güneş Sigorta Dragon Boat trained three days every week for the tournament.
6.Barcelona trip raised the moral of Güneş Sigorta’s successful agents
Güneş Sigorta awarded a Barcelona trip to its successful agents between September 15 and 18, 2011. General Manager of Güneş Sigorta Serhat Süreyya Çetin said, “Synergy we have created together with our agents is a proof that we can reach to any target we set.”
7.We are the leader within the group companies with our results
Speaking on the results of the company’s investments in Turkey, Sompo Japan Sigorta’s Vice General Manager Shinobu Arimoto said the figures in the first six months of the year pleased the headquarters in Japan.
8.Happy to join an innovative family
New executives of the HDI Sigorta expressed their pleasure of joining an innovative family which puts emphasis on open communication. The joint target of the executives is to take the company to a position where it can lead the industry.
Appointments:
Advertisement and Public Relations Director Eylem Köse Aslan
Vice General Manager of Technical and Damages Ceyhan Hancıoğlu
Legal Director Memet Erdoğan
Insurance Legal Consultancy and Legal Maanger Onur Genco Diz
Actuary in charge of Actuary Department Alper Ünlenen
9.Dubai Group Sigorta wants to grow by expanding its agents
Dubai Group Sigorta’s General Manager Korhan Gürakan said the company has recorded a significant progress in the short period of time since its establishment, adding it will be a company which aims at growth by expanding its agents.
10.Ray Sigorta on track
Ray Sigorta General Manager Levent Şişmanoğlu said the company’s profit in the first half of 2011 has reached to 663,000 lira as a result of new efficiency-focused restructuring of the company and changing portfolio structure.
11.Işık Sigorta General Manager Recep Koçak: Agents in Aegean Region shine
Koçak said following his visit to the agents in the Aegean Region last month that they attach great importance to the Aegean Region where insurance awareness is high and the agents here increase sales by using cross marketing tactics
12.Finans Emeklilik IS AT THE CLIMAX
A team of adventurers working at the Finans Emeklilik has reached the summit of Mount Ağrı following their climb to challenging Mount Erciyes and Mount Hasan in the summers of 2010 and 2011.
13.Abuser also suffers from what he/she has done
Generali Sigorta General Manager Mine Ayhan said someone who abuses the insurance system does not only deal with the legal processes but also included in the list of “people who should not be insured”.
14.ONE LIFE TOO SHORT for someone who discovers the life
Creating important pieces in different branches of art for years, Orhan Alkaya said there are many things he wants to write about or do. “Life is too short to educate yourself and to bring it to the harmony point. Life is too short for someone who discovers the life,” he notes.
15.Employer-contributed contracts increased by 80 percent in a year
The Private Pension System, considered as a second retirement option for the Turkish people for the last eight years, has reached to a fund size of 14 billion lira. Around 2.557 million people in the system invest a part of their salaries to the system. Although the share of the employer-contributed plans is still low, it has increased by 80 percent in the last one year.
16.Results in six months are bad except life segment: Technical loss rises to 10 million lira
The insurance industry recorded a technical loss of 9.9 million lira in all segments except life, according to the figures of Association of the Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Turkey. Traffic became the segment with highest loss, while life segment recorded technical profit of 94.3 million lira.
17.NART Risk Management Forum 2011
“NART Risk Management Forum 2011” organized by NART Insurance and Reinsurance Brokerage was held in Istanbul on September 19, 2011 for the eighth time. Management of the political risks that came on the agenda recently with the Arab Spring was discussed at the forum titled “Risk Management in the Construction Industry”.
18.Ex-insurer Gülçin Erfigen turns crisis into opportunity in the US
Insurer Ayla Gülçin Erfigen has continued her career in building audit business in the US following the economic crisis in 2001. Becoming successful in her new career in a short time, Erfigen says “one’s homeland is both where he/she is born and make money”, adding she will return Turkey one day.
19.2011 THE YEAR OF DISASTERS
Insuree damages and economic loss caused by natural disasters have exceeded past years in the first nine months of 2011. Damages caused by catastrophic incidents under insurance have already exceeded 70 billion dollars.
20.CONSTRUCTED IN SIX YEARS, COLLAPSED IN 1.5 HOURS, TOTAL DAMAGES STILL UNKNOWN
Attacks on the Twin Towers in the US on September 11, 2011 which turned the country into Armageddon resulted in a financial loss of 2 trillion dollars. Cost of these attacks whose impacts were felt all over the world to the insurance industry is estimated to be between 40 to 55 billion dollars. Although a decade has passed, the value of the total damages is still unknown.
21.Turkey’s first insurance cooperative: KORU SİGORTA
Launching its operations as an insurance cooperative, Koru Sigorta will provide services in all segments except life. Vice General Manager of Koru Sigorta Haşim Altınözlü said the company’s priority within customer profile is cooperatives.
22.SSA hits the industry
A new legislation deals another blow to the insurance industry which has recorded a loss of 205 million lira in six months in traffic insurances. This loss is feared to double with the new legislation allowing the Social Security Agency (SSA) to cut up to 15 percent from traffic insurance premiums for treatment costs.
23.Insurance General-Directorate of the Undersecretary of Treasury: Nobody will suffer from this new system
The Treasury said the new decree will help to calculate the required payments correctly and to register related records in a more healthy way. “Neither the insurance companies nor the SSA will suffer,” it said.
24.TSRŞB Vice General Secretary Mehmet Kalkavan: Completely violates insurance principles
Kalkavan said payment of the treatment costs of the guilty side in the car accidents from traffic insurance violates insurance principles, adding that the traffic insurance covers the surrounding damages.
25.Anadolu Sigorta CEO Mustafa Su: If SSA pays the hospital costs, this may increase trend of not having insurance
Su said, “We believe that covering the treatment costs in the car accidents by SSA without making policy and fault inquiry may contribute to the trend of not having insurance on the consumer side.”
26.Işık Sigorta’s Vice General Manager Muhsin Şen: This can create an additional financial burden of 200 million lira
Şen said the revision will create an additional financial burden more than 200 million lira to the industry. “If a study is made to calculate the treatment costs in AZMM and if the burden in AZMM is subtracted, then there is a possibility to reduce costs,” he said.
27.Insurance training program from TSEV to IT managers
TSEV’s “Insurance Training program for IT Managers”, launched in 2010, continues to attract huge interest.
28.Public wants more information on the private pension system
Although the performance of the BES, launched in Turkey in 2003, is considered to be satisfying, we discussed the Private Pension System this month in the Industrial Coffee Shop. The interviews we conducted showed that some people complain of recording loss due to misinformation on the funds, while some believe it is better to invest in gold at this time.
