Sustainability Report 2015
Strategy and Management
Our vision: Long-term success in a competitive business
Excellent solutions for our business partners are the basis for strengthening and further expanding our position as a leading, globally operating reinsurance group. They enable us to deliver long-term sustainable profitability and assert our position as one of the most profitable reinsurers worldwide.
We are passionate about reinsurance and chart our own course. We are quick, flexible and undogmatic and we strive for excellence in our actions. We consistently enlarge the scope of our operations by creating innovative business opportunities from emerging risks. With our organisation geared to efficiency, we offer our business partners an attractive value proposition.
As a leading player in the reinsurance industry, the commercial success of Hannover Re is crucially dependent on the correct assessment of present and emerging risks. In the process of evaluating risks we are faced today with growing complexity as a consequence of the increasing importance attached to various aspects of sustainability. In some instances these also have direct strategic and operational relevance to our reinsurance products and the management of our investments.
Our goal, therefore, is to achieve economic success on the basis of a profit-oriented business model – while at the same time acting in accordance with the needs of our staff and the company and giving due consideration to protection of the environment and conservation of natural resources. Sustainable action is not something which is static; rather, it must take place dynamically and in accordance with changing environmental circumstances. In conformity with our Group Strategy, therefore, we also define sustainability goals and implement appropriate measures.