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Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. is a Swiss insurance company, headquartered in Zürich, and the country's largest insurer. [2] As of 2021, the group is the world's 112th largest public company according to Forbes ' Global 2000s list, [3] and in 2011, it ranked 94th in Interbrand's top 100 brands.
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SWX Swiss Exchange, as was its new name since 1999, [4] acquired the stock exchange platform Tradepoint, renamed as Virt-x, [12] for the trading of 32 Swiss bluechip stocks, regulated by the British Financial Services Authority. [13] The new platform was opened on 25 June 2001. [14]
This is a list of major stock exchanges. Those futures exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts may be listed both here and in the list of futures exchanges .
The ASX 200 is capitalisation-weighted, meaning a company's contribution to the index is relative to its total market value i.e., share price multiplied by the number of tradeable shares. The ASX 200 is also float adjusted, meaning the absolute numerical contribution to the index is relative to the stock's value at the float of the stock. [12]
Fifteen Swiss companies are included on Fortune's "Global 500" list (in 2011). As of 2018 the largest non-financial companies in terms of annual revenue were Glencore, Vitol and Trafigura, with Nestlé as the largest employer. The largest banks were UBS and Credit Suisse, and the largest insurance company was Zurich Insurance Group.
In 1930, Ticker AG was founded in Zurich, Switzerland by a group of Swiss banks. In 1961 it launched the first stock market television service in Switzerland, and was renamed Telekurs Financial. In 1975, Telekurs launched Investdata, the first financial information display in Switzerland. Telekurs began to expand outside of Switzerland in 1990.
The SWX Group, SIS Group and Telekurs Group merged on 1 January to form Swiss Financial Markets Services AG. [15] The company thus covered the business areas of securities trading, stock exchange transactions, financial information and payment transactions. [3] On 21 August 2008, Swiss Financial Markets Services Ltd was renamed SIX Group Ltd. [16]