Economic Research

We are in charge of:

• Macro-economic forecasts for major investment regions in terms of GDP growth and inflation rates
  
  • Basis for group-wide monthly investment process
    
  • Weekly review meetings to cover short-term economic and political events
    
    
• Alternative long-term scenarios to cover deviations from the main forecast
  
  
• External communication, supporting SLAM sales activities
  
  • Monthly publications on economies and financial markets
    
  • Presentations, interviews, panel discussions, media articles
    
    
• Internal communication
  
  • Information events on economics and financial markets
    
    
• Ad hoc studies for various entities within the Swiss Life group
  
  
• Participation in polls
  
  • Consensus Economics, Business Economists, Bloomberg Polls

Our achievements in 2011:

• Forecasting accuracy as regards the Swiss economy
  
  
• 41 presentations and client visits
  
  
• 28 media quotes
  
  
• Approximately 800 recipients of our monthly publications