Operational management system

A number of IFRS-based financial performance indicators are also embedded in our strategic system of targets and coordinated with our parameters for value creation derived from the internal capital model. We use these indicators for operational management within the year, in part because they are available promptly and also because they already provide initial pointers as to whether we are likely to achieve our higher-order strategic objectives. These are for both business groups the growth in gross premium, for property and casualty reinsurance the combined ratio, for life and health reinsurance the EBIT growth and for the Group as a whole the return on investment. Non-financial performance indicators, on the other hand, are not used for operational management within the year.