Zurich Insurance Group AG (SWX:ZURN) is ready to make acquisitions if potential targets meet its criteria. Head of general insurance business, Kristof Terryn said: "We have a very strict approach to M&A (mergers and acquisitions), it needs to meet our hurdles. If we see an opportunity where, combined with the industrial logic of what we're trying to do and combined with the business case, we hit those returns we will look at acquisitions."