The FINANCIAL -- Zurich Financial Services Group announces the appointment of Nicolas Burnet to the position of Chief Financial Officer Global Life, with immediate effect.

The FINANCIAL -- Anyone can come down with dementia, as the cases of more and more celebrities remind us. "In Germany alone, 1.3 million people currently suffer from the condition.The probability that any one of us could develop Alzheimer's or any other form of dementia by the time we're 90 is around one in three," explains Allianz expert Michaela Grimm.

The FINANCIAL -- ING Group’s full-year 2011 net result was EUR 5,766 million, or EUR 1.52 per share, according to ING Groep N.V., including divestments, discontinued operations and special items. The 4Q11 underlying net result was EUR -516 million. The 4Q11 net result was EUR 1,186 million, or EUR 0.31 per share.

The FINANCIAL -- ING announced it will propose to the 2012 Annual General Meeting the appointment of Yvonne van Rooy and Robert Reibestein to the Supervisory Board.

The FINANCIAL -- While life insurers have a good value proposition for their policyholders, they lack an easy and understandable way to explain to other stakeholders how they create value and earn profits.