{"id":31300,"date":"2013-11-19T00:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/swiss-re-to-acquire-a-14-9-stake-in-brazilian-insurer-sulamerica-for-approximately-usd-334-million\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T23:13:59","slug":"swiss-re-to-acquire-a-14-9-stake-in-brazilian-insurer-sulamerica-for-approximately-usd-334-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/swiss-re-to-acquire-a-14-9-stake-in-brazilian-insurer-sulamerica-for-approximately-usd-334-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Re to acquire a 14.9% stake in Brazilian insurer SulAm\u00e9rica for approximately USD 334 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SulAm\u00e9rica is the largest independent insurance group in Brazil and a leading provider of health and auto insurance. In addition, the company also offers property, casualty, and life insurance as well as pension, asset management and premium savings bonds products. <\/p>\n<p>Swiss Re&#8217;s Group Chief Executive Officer Michel M. Li\u00e8s says: <em>&#8220;SulAm\u00e9rica is a well-established and successful multiline insurer in Brazil where we see attractive growth opportunities. We expect our investment in SulAm\u00e9rica to benefit us not only financially, but also by increasing our proximity to and participation in the Brazilian market.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Swiss Re&#8217;s Group Chief Strategy Officer John R. Dacey adds: &#8220;The investment in SulAm\u00e9rica affirms Swiss Re&#8217;s strategy to invest in leading insurance franchises in high growth markets.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The transaction between ING and Swiss Re is conditional upon the closing of the restructuring of Sulasapar, the investment vehicle controlled by the Larragoiti family, as announced in February 2013, as well as customary regulatory approval. The transactions between Swiss Re and ING and between Swiss Re and the Larragoiti family are expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013. Following closing of these transactions, Swiss Re will be the largest investor in SulAm\u00e9rica after Sulasapar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Re has agreed to acquire an 11.1% stake in Sul Am\u00e9rica S.A. (&#8220;SulAm\u00e9rica&#8221;) from ING Group N.V. (&#8220;ING&#8221;) and a 3.8% stake from members of the Larragoiti family for a total amount of approximately USD 334 million. This confirms Swiss Re&#8217;s commitment to Brazil, Latin America and high growth markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":31298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1671,1651,1437,2103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}