Health insurers will not be forced to channel their investment gains back into lower premiums, after the Federal Council rejected a parliamentary proposal to make the mechanism mandatory
The decision happens just weeks after a fresh premium hike was announced for 2027 — adding to the squeeze on Swiss households.
Today the system is voluntary, and in 2022 only 32 of 51 insurers used it, often not with their full capital returns.
Mont Blanc increases in height
Haute-Savoie's chamber of chartered surveyors announced yesterday that Mont Blanc now stands at 4,807.47 metres — up 1.88 metres from the last September reading in 2023
Concerns for a supermarket Swiss cyber attack
Migros has acknowledged that the Danfoss cooling systems hit by this week's French supermarket cyberattack are used in a handful of its own Swiss branches
Changes for Swiss driving test
Anyone taking a Swiss driving test from January next year will face a reorganised, digitised process
PostFinance plan not fully completed
PostFinance's emergency plan does not yet meet regulatory requirements, the Swiss financial supervisor Finma said yesterday
Questions over FIFA President's salary
The president of Zurich-based FIFA may have pocketed an extra 1.72 million US dollars on top of his official salary, according to The Times
Proposed change in retirement plans
Switzerland's bourgeois parties are asking the Federal Council to tie retirement age to the length of a person's working life, rather than a fixed age for all
