{"id":2734253,"date":"2026-01-02T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2734253\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:34:18","slug":"zurich-insurance-aims-to-divest-part-of-legacy-portfolio-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2734253\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Insurance aims to divest part of legacy portfolio in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-testid=\"EagerImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/archive-images.prod.global.a201836.reutersmedia.net\/2021\/12\/17\/LYNXMPEHBG0KS.JPG\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"Logo of Zurich Insurance is seen at a former office building in Zurich\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO: The logo of Zurich Insurance is seen at a former office building in Zurich, Switzerland November 11, 2021. REUTERS\/Arnd Wiegmann<\/p>\n<p>MUNICH (Reuters) &#8211; Zurich Insurance Group plans to divest part of its legacy portfolio of traditional life insurance policies in Germany, a spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich, which operates its German life insurance business under the Deutscher Herold brand, wants to focus on fund-based policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is why we are looking for a solution for part of the portfolio of high-interest rate policies,&#8221; a Zurich spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Alexander Huebner; Writing by Tom Sims; Editing by Maria Sheahan<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: The logo of Zurich Insurance is seen at a former office building in Zurich, Switzerland November 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2734254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784994],"tags":[36280,762715,52896,762734,38674,786552,243569,762679,762733,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-2734253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-ch","9":"tag-cmpny","10":"tag-de","11":"tag-europ","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-mins1","14":"tag-mrg","15":"tag-topnws","16":"tag-weu","17":"tag-5326"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/115824824533605692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2734254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}