General information
As a financial and management holding company Talanx AG heads Germany’s third-largest insurance group, with premium income of EUR 19.0 (19.1) billion in 2008. Talanx transacts business worldwide in more than 150 countries in the areas of property/casualty insurance, non-life reinsurance, life insurance, life/health reinsurance and financial services.
Talanx operates extremely successfully on international markets in promising sectors of the financial services industry with a variety of brands. These include first and foremost the HDI-Gerling insurers, with their core fields of non-life insurance for industrial and private clients as well as life insurance, Hannover Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurance groups, the bancassurance specialists Neue Leben, CiV, PB and PBV Lebensversicherung, Aspecta, which markets its insurance products through brokers and multiple agents, and the investment fund provider and asset manager AmpegaGerling.
At the end of 2008 the companies belonging to the Talanx Group employed a total global workforce* of 16,541 (15,996). Talanx AG is a joint-stock company and has its registered office in Hannover, Germany. It is entered in the commercial register of Hannover County Court under the number HR Hannover B 52546 with the address “Riethorst 2, 30659 Hannover”.
* Full-time equivalents as at 31 December