Regulatory Filings • Jan 25, 2011
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Press Release (p.1/2) 25 January 2011 N° 04 – 2011
For further information, please contact: Jean-Charles Simon / Géraldine Fontaine +33 (0) 1 46 98 73 17 Communications and Public Affairs Antonio Moretti +44 (0) 203 207 8562 Investor Relations Director
On 21 December 2010, the Mexican Ministry of Finance granted SCOR Global Life SE a licence to set up a representative office in Mexico, under the name of SCOR Global Life SE Oficina de Representación en Mexico.
In order to capitalize on its strong franchise and longstanding presence of more than 30 years in Latin America, SCOR Global Life has recently considerably strengthened its organisational structure by recruiting in the marketing, pricing, product development, medical underwriting, administration and claims fields.
With the opening of the Mexican office, SCOR Global Life is now located in the three main Life insurance markets in the region and is gaining closer proximity to its clients in Mexico, which is the second largest Life Insurance market in Latin America, with more than USD 8 billion in premium income. The office is in charge of the Mexican, Central American and Caribbean markets and is headed by Maurice Piault, who has 25 years' experience on the Latin American Life reinsurance market. A team of actuaries and medical and claims assessors has been put in place locally and will offer pricing and new product development, along with high quality services in Medical underwriting and claims for the entire Latin American market.
Worth USD 4 billion, Chile is the third largest Life Insurance market in Latin America. Andrés Cortés, with more than 20 years of experience in the Chilean and Latin American Life Insurance markets, is in charge of the Santiago office, which opened in 2002. The South American markets, excluding Brazil, are served from this office. A strong administrative team has been recently put in place in Santiago and is now in charge of administration for the whole region.
Worth USD 30 billion, Brazil is by far the largest Life Insurance market in Latin America. The Sao Paulo office, which opened in 2008 and is dedicated to the Brazilian market, is headed by Ron Kaufmann, who has more than 30 years of experience in the Brazilian Life Insurance and Reinsurance industries. Both the Santiago and Sao Paulo offices report to the Mexican office.
Gilles Meyer, CEO of SCOR Global Life, comments: "This licence, which was announced as part of the Group's strategic plan for 2010-2013, "Strong Momentum", is a key milestone in terms of establishing SCOR Global Life in Latin America, a rapidly growing region with huge potential for development. Thanks to this new reinforced organisational structure, SCOR Global Life is ideally
SCOR SE 1, av. du Général de Gaulle 92074 Paris La Défense Cdx France Tél + 33 (0) 1 46 98 70 00 Fax + 33 (0) 1 47 67 04 09 www.scor.com RCS Nanterre B 562 033 357 Siret 562 033 357 00020 Société Européenne au capital de 1 478 740 032 euros
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positioned to bring quality services and provide new product development to its clients throughout the entire region. Our Latin American operations will be supported by SCOR Global Life's highly qualified teams and R&D Centers, in order to bring our longstanding expertise in terms of products, training, innovative reinsurance coverage, financing, facultative business and financial reinsurance solutions to the Latin American markets. Clients will also benefit from SCOR Global Life's direct marketing experience through ReMark."
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SCOR does not communicate "profit forecasts" in the sense of Article 2 of (EC) Regulation n°809/2004 of the European Commission. Thus, any forward-.looking statements contained in this communication should not be held as corresponding to such profit forecasts. Information in this communication may include "forward-looking statements", including but not limited to statements that are predictions of or indicate future events, trends, plans or objectives, based on certain assumptions and include any statement which does not directly relate to a historical fact or current fact. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as, without limitation, "anticipate", "assume", "believe", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "foresee", "intend", "may increase" and "may fluctuate" and similar expressions or by future or conditional verbs such as, without limitations, "will", "should", "would" and "could." Undue reliance should not be placed on such statements, because, by their nature, they are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, on the one hand, to differ from any results expressed or implied by the present communication, on the other hand.
Please refer to SCOR's document de référence filed with the AMF on 3 March 2010 under number D.10- 00085 (the "Document de Référence"), for a description of certain important factors, risks and uncertainties that may affect the business of the SCOR Group. As a result of the extreme and unprecedented volatility and disruption of the current global financial crisis, SCOR is exposed to significant financial, capital market and other risks, including movements in interest rates, credit spreads, equity prices, and currency movements, changes in rating agency policies or practices, and the lowering or loss of financial strength or other ratings.
SCOR SE 1, av. du Général de Gaulle 92074 Paris La Défense Cdx France Tél + 33 (0) 1 46 98 70 00 Fax + 33 (0) 1 47 67 04 09 www.scor.com RCS Nanterre B 562 033 357 Siret 562 033 357 00020 Société Européenne au capital de 1 478 740 032 euros
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