This guest blog from Elly Ploumen, Group HR Director at Achmea is based on an interview published in the magazine Visie – this time with a focus on HR – from Dutch insurance organisation VNAB. In the blog, Elly explains how Achmea let go of the organisation’s familiar assessment and reward structure and how talent, […]
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In the article below, written for a Danish financial news website POV – POINT of VIEW International, Anne Mette Toftegaard, CEO of ICMIF member LB Forsikring (Denmark), discusses diversity at her organisation and suggests that instead of seeing diversity as a hindrance, it should be seen as a huge opportunity. At LB Forsikring over half […]
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We are pleased to share this latest guest blog from ICMIF Supporting Member organisation Swiss Re with comments from Dr. Jeffrey Bohn, Managing Director, and Chief Research & Innovation Officer at the Swiss Re Institute. The original article accompanied the publication of the latest sigma report “Machine Intelligence in insurance: insights for end-to-end enterprise”. The […]
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We are pleased to share this latest guest blog from Max Tiong Oon Choon, Head of Innovation at ICMIF member organisation NTUC Income (Income) in Singapore. The article was originally written by Max and shared on his LinkedIn page and it is reproduced here for the benefit of ICMIF members as a great example of […]
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What is going to be the “new normal” post covid-19 for society and business? Many commentators such as McKinsey are saying there needs to be a shift from economies being driven by shareholder value to being driven by a much wider stakeholder value. The term “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) is coming back […]
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The partnership between the Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and ICMIF is one founded on shared values and shared purpose and we hope to encourage more of our member organisations to become involved in the work of the A4S as it expands on a global basis. The role for the finance community in achieving […]
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Our latest guest blog was written by Mami Mizutori, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and the head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Dr Heide Hackmann, CEO of the International Science Council. The blog was originally published on Thomson Reuters Foundation News and is published here with the permission of the UNDRR. Watch […]
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By Jan Kellett, Special Advisor: External Engagement (Finance Sector Hub), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Shaun Tarbuck, Chief Executive, ICMIF. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and is likely the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, […]
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We are pleased to share this guest blog from ICMIF Supporting Member organisation Aviva Investors. The article was written for the Aviva investors website and is reproduced here for the benefit of ICMIF members with their permission. COVID-19 has thrown new light on the interdependencies in human and natural ecosystems, and the vulnerabilities of a closely networked world. […]
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You will by now, I hope, have seen some of the 60 plus news stories on our website of how ICMIF members have responded so superbly to the COVID-19 crisis to support their customers, their communities and, in some cases even, their countries. The stories are all both individually and collectively inspirational. According to our research, the […]
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