In this guest blog, David Hynam, CEO at LV= (UK), shares how his organisation’s online Member Community has delivered a masterclass in giving members a voice. Finding new ways to engage members LV= Life and Pensions is a responsible and inclusive member-owned business. For over 180 years, our mutual ethos has been at our heart. […]
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GF Insurance was founded in a different time –1967 –when Denmark was a different country than today. Ownership of a car was a luxury item for the rapidly growing middle class who needed to be insured well and cheaply. In that context, GF or as it is translated in English, “Group Insurance” – emerged as […]
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“In a world that is often polarised and divisive,” writes Ayanda Seboni, Group Executive for Mutuality, PPS (South Africa), “it is heartwarming to know that there are like-minded people out there who want to do good and be good, not just for themselves but for society as a whole. This sentiment epitomises PPS’s ethos of […]
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The (re)insurance industry finds itself at a crossroads, writes Lorie Graham, Senior Vice President & Chief Risk Officer, American Agricultural Insurance Company (AmericanAg). A confluence of interconnected risks – a polycrisis’ – is reshaping the landscape, demanding innovative approaches to ensure stability. The term ‘polycrisis’ describes the convergence of multiple crises, where disparate challenges interact, […]
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Businesses in the social economy should be ambitious and scale up responsibly, while staying true to their core values. This was the message of Hilde Vernaillen, Former ICMIF Chair and current Board Member at the recent Social Economy Meeting organised by the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union. Hilde is also CEO […]
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In this guest blog by Jim Islam, Chief Executive Officer at ICMIF member OneFamily (UK) explains why he is proud that his organisation is going to be supporting the UNDP ICMIF Insurance Innovation Challenge (IIC) Fund. The call for applications for the Fund was launched on International Women’s Day 2023 by the United Nations Development […]
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Last year, I was invited to represent ICMIF at the Association of Financial Mutual’s (AFM) Annual Conference, to share some examples of best-practice from mutual/cooperative insurers across the globe with an audience of leaders from the UK’s mutual insurance and friendly society sector. During the opening address of the event, the AFM Chair spoke of […]
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A colleague recently came into my office with a question. He’s from Wawanesa’s Corporate Compliance team and was looking to do some brainstorming. He wanted to know if I had any recommendations for existing working groups or knowledge sharing opportunities. Right away, I put him in touch with ICMIF. The value that Wawanesa gets from […]
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Happy New Year! I hope you had a chance to unwind at the end of 2023. A reprieve of sorts before tackling 2024 head on. “Tackle” sounds ominous, doesn’t it? I don’t say that in jest. I see the year ahead as a battle – not all bad, because battles ebb and flow, but an […]
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“A recent midpoint evaluation of SDG progress on the journey to 2030 reveals that, among the assessable targets, a mere 15% are on track to be achieved by 2030 and 48% show moderate or severe deviations from the desired trajectory. Worse still, 37% have experienced no progress or even regressed below the 2015 baseline,” writes […]
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