Zurich Insurance Group Ag

Shareholders of Zurich Insurance Group AG

Zurich Insurance Group AG’s registered shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ticker: ZURN) and fall under the disclosure regime of Article 120 of the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA), which requires investors to notify the company and the SIX Exchange Regulation Disclosure Office when a voting-rights holding reaches, exceeds or falls below thresholds starting at 3 percent. As a widely held, SIX-listed company, Zurich Insurance Group AG does not maintain a complete public shareholder register; only holdings that cross a disclosure threshold are made public through the Disclosure Office. Multiple third-party market-data services consistently identify BlackRock, Inc. as a long-standing significant shareholder at or above the 3 percent disclosure threshold, with other large asset managers, including Vanguard and Norges Bank Investment Management, also reported among recurring institutional holders. This review was unable to directly retrieve the underlying SIX Disclosure Office notifications or Zurich’s own investor-relations disclosure page during research, so these percentages should be treated as indicative rather than independently confirmed against the primary disclosure filings.

Data availability

Shareholder information for Zurich Insurance Group AG is major shareholders only: Swiss disclosure rules publish only holdings that cross defined voting-rights thresholds rather than a full shareholder register, and this review could not independently access the primary SIX Disclosure Office or company disclosure pages to confirm current holder-by-holder percentages. No verified ultimate beneficial owner distinct from these institutional asset managers was identified. The on-file registry data for this record separately lists purported shareholder names, quantities and percentages (for example, a holding of 2,060,369 shares reported against an 18.1 percent stake); independent verification found this inconsistent with Zurich Insurance Group AG’s approximately 143.6 million shares outstanding, so that on-file data was not relied upon in this overview.

Sources

SIX Exchange Regulation, disclosure-of-shareholdings framework under Art. 120 FMIA: https://www.ser-ag.com/en/topics/disclosure-of-shareholdings.html (retrieved 11 September 2026). Zurich Insurance Group, Investor Relations, “Disclosure of shareholdings”: https://www.zurich.com/investor-relations/our-shares/disclosure-of-shareholdings (page identified but not renderable during retrieval, 11 September 2026).

Directors and officers of Zurich Insurance Group AG

The Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance Group AG is chaired by Michel M. Lies, with Jasmin Staiblin serving as Vice-Chair following the Annual General Meeting of 8 April 2026. Other directors confirmed or newly elected at the 2026 AGM are Joan Amble, Catherine Bessant, Mary Forrest (newly elected), Michael Halbherr, Thomas Jordan, Sabine Keller-Busse, Kishore Mahbubani, Peter Maurer, John Rafter and Barry Stowe; Christoph Franz did not stand for re-election after reaching the Board’s 12-year maximum tenure limit. Mario Greco has served as Group Chief Executive Officer since 7 March 2016, and Claudia Cordioli has served as Group Chief Financial Officer since 1 March 2024, following an appointment announced in December 2023. The underlying information is dated to Zurich’s 8 April 2026 Annual General Meeting results and related company announcements. Nationality is not stated in these sources for any individual and is not reported here.

Recent officer changes

Mary Forrest was newly elected to the Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting on 8 April 2026. Christoph Franz stepped down from the Board at the same meeting after reaching its 12-year tenure limit. Jasmin Staiblin was appointed Vice-Chair of the Board, and Sabine Keller-Busse was appointed Chair of the Remuneration Committee, both effective 8 April 2026.

Data availability

Officer information for Zurich Insurance Group AG is full for the Board of Directors and current for the Group Chief Executive Officer and Group Chief Financial Officer, sourced from the company’s own AGM results announcement and appointment press releases rather than the underlying Swiss commercial register. The on-file commercial register data for this record instead lists registered signatories with collective signing authority (Kollektivunterschrift) and holders of collective power of procuration (Kollektivprokura); this is a distinct legal category from Board of Directors or Group Executive Committee membership and is not presented here as such. One entry in that register data embeds a historical nationality note (“bisher: Belgischer Staatsangehoeriger”, i.e. formerly a Belgian national) inside a job-title field rather than a dedicated nationality field; this profile does not treat that embedded text as a verified officer nationality disclosure. Nationality is otherwise not disclosed in any source reviewed for this profile.

Sources

Zurich Insurance Group, “Zurich shareholders approve all Board proposals at Annual General Meeting 2026,” press release, 8 April 2026: https://www.zurich.com/media/news-releases/2026/2026-0408-01 (retrieved 11 September 2026). Zurich Insurance Group, Mario Greco biography page: https://www.zurich.com/about-us/corporate-governance/mario-greco (retrieved 11 September 2026). Zurich Insurance Group, “Zurich appoints Claudia Cordioli as Group Chief Financial Officer,” press release, 14 December 2023: https://www.zurich.com/media/news-releases/2023/2023-1214-01 (retrieved 11 September 2026).

Group structure of Zurich Insurance Group AG

Zurich Insurance Group AG is an independent, SIX Swiss Exchange-listed parent company; it has no immediate or ultimate parent of its own. It is the holding company for the Zurich Insurance Group, which operates through numerous verified operating subsidiaries worldwide, including Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (the Group’s principal Swiss-domiciled insurance operating company), Zurich Insurance plc (the Group’s Irish-domiciled insurer used as an EU underwriting hub), Zurich American Insurance Company (the Group’s principal US property and casualty operating company), and Farmers Group, Inc. (a wholly owned US subsidiary that provides management and other non-claims services to the Farmers Exchanges). The Farmers Exchanges themselves are owned by their own policyholders and are not owned by Zurich Insurance Group AG or any Group subsidiary. The main jurisdictions represented in the structure include Switzerland, Ireland, the United States, and numerous other countries in which Group operating companies are licensed to write insurance business. On-file registry linkage data for this record lists several hundred additional entities across dozens of countries; this overview reports only the operating subsidiaries the Group itself highlights in its own public disclosures, rather than that full automated ownership tree.

Data availability

Corporate-linkage information for Zurich Insurance Group AG is partial: the Group’s own public disclosures identify its principal operating subsidiaries by name but do not routinely publish an ownership percentage for each one, so this overview reports verified relationships without asserting a specific ownership percentage unless stated. Ownership percentage not disclosed for the subsidiaries named above, except that Farmers Group, Inc. is described in Group disclosures as wholly owned.

Sources

Zurich Insurance Group, official corporate website (zurich.com), “About us” pages and public statements on the relationship between Farmers Group, Inc. and the Farmers Exchanges (retrieved 11 September 2026). Zurich Insurance Group, Annual Report 2025 (zurich.com/annual-report-2025), for the Group’s segment and principal-subsidiary descriptions (retrieved 11 September 2026).