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Swiss Life solid und stramm auf Kurs

Swiss Life hat 2023 den Gewinn um 8 Prozent auf 1,11 Mrd. Franken gesteigert und bezahlt den Aktionären eine um 3 auf 33 Franken gesteigerte Dividende. Der abtretende Konzernchef Patrick Frost sieht den Versicherer gut auf Kurs, um die bis Ende 2024 gesetzten Zielen zu erreichen oder sogar zu übertreffen.

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1 in 20 suffer material deprivation in Switzerland

On 2 May 2023, Switzerland’s Federal Statistical Office published its annual report on income, poverty and living conditions. In 2021, 448,000 people, 5.2% of the population, refrained from buying goods, services and social activities for financial reasons, something described as material and social deprivation. And Switzerland’s poverty rate was 8.7%. At the same time, the overall standard of living in Switzerland remains one of the highest in Europe. Photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi on...

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Swiss fondu gets its own trademark

The Swiss cheese fondu “moitié-moitié”, which means half-half in English, will soon have its own figurative trademark, reports RTS. On 16 November 2022, the cheese producers’ association in the canton of Fribourg announced that it had applied for a trademark for the well-known “moitié-moitié” cheese fondu, which is made up of a 50/50 mix of Gruyere AOP and Vacherin Fribourgeois AOP cheeses made in the canton of Fribourg. According to the association, the trademark is needed because the...

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Switzerland unwelcoming to expats, shows survey

A survey of expats published on 12 July 2022 ranks Switzerland 43rd out of 52 nations on ease of settling in. © Niccolo Pontigia | Dreamstime.comThe definition of an expat is based on the sample used in the Expat Insider 2022 survey. This group was 46 years old on average, more female (52%) than male (47%), most likely to have moved to Switzerland for work (51%) and was well paid – 56% earned US$ 100,000 or more. Close to a third (31%) worked in either IT, healthcare or pharmaceuticals....

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