At the recent meeting of the Board of Directors of ICMIF/Americas there was a warm welcome for the newest member of the Board, Juan A. Lugo Meléndez. In addition to a seat on the ICMIF/Americas Board, Juan also sits on the main ICMIF Board of Directors. Juan is the Executive President of Cooperativa de Seguros […]
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Willis Towers Watson, a global advisory, broking and solutions company, has developed the Global Ecosystem Resilience Facility (GERF), the first global insurance facility of its kind to provide innovative finance and risk management solutions to build the resilience of ecosystems and the communities they support. The GERF was launched by Willis Towers Watson CEO, John […]
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The 24th Meeting of Reinsurance Officials (MORO) is a unique, global gathering of reinsurance professionals from the mutual and cooperative sector that meets every two years. This conference is an outstanding opportunity for ICMIF members to learn from leading reinsurance professionals as well as share reinsurance knowledge and discuss issues of common interest with other […]
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Research carried out by ICMIF on gender diversity at board, CEO and senior management level last year demonstrated how cooperative and mutual insurers – and particularly ICMIF member organisations – are leading the way in diversity. More and more women are leading mutual and cooperative insurers and playing a key role in growing the insurance […]
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The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) newly formed Young Leaders Programme had its official launch as part of its Biennial Conference in London last October. Fifty-five young leaders attended and just under half were women, highlighting a clear commitment from mutuals and cooperatives world-wide to “press for progress”. In total, ICMIF’s Biennial Conference […]
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New data from the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) shows that an estimated 97% of primary policyholders covered to date as a result of ICMIF’s 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance Strategy are women. The total number of lives covered is over 3.2 million in developing countries, these are policyholders who previously had no insurance cover […]
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Japanese cooperatives have a long history of collaborating with each other and until now much of this collaboration has been coordinated through the Japan Joint Committee of Co-operatives (JJC) which was established in 1956. From 1 April 2018, the JJC will become the Japan Co-operative Alliance (JCA) in order to further promote those collaborations. For […]
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A.M. Best last week stated its belief that insurance companies’ investments in technology upgrades would help to make them remain relevant and benefit financially over the long term. According to a recent A.M. Best survey insurance companies concur and increasingly are harnessing data to improve all aspects of their business. A.M. Best is a long-standing […]
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ICMIF member Thrivent Financial appoints first female Chair to the organisation’s Board of Directors
Thrivent, a member of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) based in the USA, last week announced that Bonnie Raquet had been elected by her peers on the board to serve as the chair of the Thrivent Financial Board of Directors, making her the first female in the organisation’s history to hold this […]
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The project with the DHAN Foundation (India) under the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation’s (ICMIF) 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance Strategy has gained significant momentum since its launch in April 2017, with over 108,000 previously uninsured individuals from low-income communities now protected with mutual microinsurance (as of 31 December 2017). Gayathri Sakthirajan, Chief Executive of People […]
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