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Headquarters address
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SCOR SE, 5 avenue Kléber, 75795 Paris Cedex 16, France
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Year established
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1970
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Gross written premiums
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€17.6 billlion (2021)
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Size (employees)
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3,590
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Offices worldwide
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36
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Global locations
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France, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Barbados, Sweden, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, South Africa, Israel, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Kenya, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, China
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Underwriting expertise
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Property, casualty, life and health, reinsurance, asset management
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Key people
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Laurent Rousseau (CEO, SCOR), Jean-Paul Conoscente (CEO, SCOR Property & Casualty), Ian Kelly (chief financial officer, SCOR), Frieder Knüpling (CEO, SCOR Life & Health), Romain Launay (deputy CEOfficer, SCOR Property & Casualty), Claire Le Gall-Robinson (group chief sustainability officer), Brona Magee (deputy CEO, SCOR Life & Health), Fabian Uffer (group chief risk officer), François de Varenne (investments, technology, transformation, and group corporate finance)
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About SCOR
SCOR is a reinsurance firm that provides a wide range of financial solutions, analytics tools, and services in all areas related to risk – including life, health, property, and casualty. Its operations are divided into three segments: life and health, property and casualty (P&C), and investments.
SCOR’s life and health business provides added-value risk coverage and personalized services. Its products include mortality and morbidity risk solutions cover, protection against longevity risks, support for new businesses generation, claims management, and other financial solutions.
The unit’s risk solutions help clients to mitigate claims volatility and support them with a wide range of products covering disability, critical illness, personal accident, medical, and long-term care. Its financial and longevity solutions help customers manage their solvency and cash needs such as liquidity, balance sheets, and income statements.
SCOR’s P&C business unit, meanwhile, provides proportional and non-proportional reinsurance across property and casualty treaties. Meanwhile, its investment unit comprises the Group Investment Office and SCOR Investment Partners, an asset management company.
The Group Investment Office manages the interaction between SCOR and its asset managers, while SCOR Investment Partners manages the group’s investment portfolio.
History of SCOR
SCOR was founded in 1970 to provide financial solutions, products and services in France. It completed numerous acquisitions in the 1980s until it ranked 12th in the global reinsurance sector in the 1990s. It was also listed on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1990.
SCOR has continued to expand its products and services in various markets worldwide. In 1996, it acquired the Allstate Group’s reinsurance portfolio, reaching the top 10 reinsurance providers in the US market. In the same year, the group established SCOR Reinsurance Asia-Pacific and continued its expansion into other regions.
In 2012, the group launched the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science to support research focusing on macroeconomic risks and other risks in the insurance and reinsurance sectors. In 2013, it acquired Generali US and the real estate firm MRM. It also entered into an extreme mortality risk transfer contract with Atlas IX and launched its new strategic plan, Optimal Dynamics.
In 2016, SCOR opened a composite branch office in India. In 2017, it opened a SCOR Global Life SE branch in Japan and a SCOR Global P&C SE representative office in Kenya. It also launched a new version of SOLEM, its online underwriting manual.
In 2018, SCOR acquired MutRé and sponsored a new catastrophe model, Atlas Capital UK 2018. Meanwhile, the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science partnered with the Paris School of Economics to create a research chair on macroeconomic risk.
In 2019, SCOR launches its new strategic plan called “Quantum Leap,” which was extended until December 2022. This was the seventh strategic plan the company has launched and implemented since 2002, following “Back on Track”, “Moving Forward”, “Dynamic Lift”, “Strong Momentum”, “Optimal Dynamics” and “Vision in Action.”
SCOR has invested €250 million in the implementation of Quantum Leap, which focuses on three main pillars: bringing added value to clients in their digital transformation, expanding profitable new business opportunities, and strengthening digital capabilities around five key clusters (robotics, e-business, multi-cloud, big data and artificial intelligence). With the plan, SCOR is pursuing strong growth of around 4 to 7% per year and has set equally weighted profitability and solvency targets that are ambitious in the current financial and economic environment.
Leadership at SCOR
Denis Kessler – Chairman of the Board of Directors
Kessler has served as SCOR’s chief executive officer and board chairman since 2002, relinquishing the former role in 2021. He has served in senior roles throughout his career – including chairman of Fédération Française de l’Assurance (FFA), senior executive vice president and member of the executive committee of the AXA Group, and executive vice president of Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF).
In January 2016, he joined the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institut de France.
Laurent Rousseau – Chief Executive Officer of SCOR
Rousseau was appointed CEO of SCOR in June 2021. He joined the company in 2010 as advisor to the CEO and became the head of SCOR Global P&C’s Strategy and Business Development in 2012. In July 2015, he became chief underwriting officer of SCOR Global P&C’s treaty business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
In April 2018, Rousseau was appointed as deputy CEO of SCOR Global P&C and a member of the group’s executive committee. He later became CEO of Specialty Insurance (SCOR Business Solutions, the Channel Managing Agency and MGAs) in September the same year.
Culture at SCOR
SCOR allocates considerable resources to the research and development of risk management. It works with students from renowned schools and universities to conduct research projects, and it develops corporate sponsorships and research partnerships with institutions worldwide to cover a range of fields linked to risk and reinsurance.
The group also organizes campus training sessions for their clients and addresses contemporary cognitive risk with the help of Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) and Editions Belin.
The SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science has signed partnerships that include research chairs in risk, macroeconomic risk, and finance and insurance. It also supports research in significant areas of risk analysis and participates in the development of actuarial practice in Tunisia and the Conférence interafricaine des marchés d’assurance (CIMA).
SCOR also recognizes outstanding actuarial research through the SCOR Actuarial Awards, which aims to encourage research and improve risk knowledge and management. Since 2015, the group has partnered with the French Institute of Actuaries to organize actuarial symposia in Paris.
SCOR is also committed to reducing its carbon footprint by securing the share of renewables, increasing energy efficiency within the business, and rolling out environmental management systems. It aims to reduce the carbon intensity of its offices by 30% per employee and offset 100% of its remaining emissions.
