The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced a new flagship initiative — the Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (IRFF), within its Finance Sector Hub. The new Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (IRFF) aims to build financial resilience and bridge the USD 1.4 trillion global health, mortality, and disaster protection gap. The UNDP says the […]
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The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and Aon have taken another step toward understanding how mutual insurers’ performance, structure, and focus set them apart from other insurance entities with this week’s release of their fourth annual market analysis of the mutual insurance industry. The latest report, “Mutual Factor 2021: How Performance, Structure, and […]
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At the beginning of September, French ICMIF member AAM (l’Association des Assureurs Mutualistes or, in English, the Association of Mutual Insurers) launched what will be a two-month digital communication campaign, “Another world already exists: Mutual insurers,” dedicated specifically to young people (18 – 35 years old) to talk to them about mutuality and mutual insurers. […]
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The AVBOB Disaster Relief Fund was established by South African ICMIF member AVBOB to aid various small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which suffered substantial loss and damage due to the recent unrest and looting experienced in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. To date, eleven of the fund’s first beneficiaries have received cumulative […]
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Fondazione Unipolis (the Unipolis Foundation) is the corporate foundation of Italian ICMIF member the Unipol Gruppo. The Foundation’s most recent project, promoted in conjunction with Cittadinanzattiva, an organisation founded in 1978, which promotes citizen activism for the protection of rights, is the fruit of the work of 2,000 students from 57 Italian schools which imagines […]
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ICMIF member The Co-operators today announced it has been recognised as a Best Employer in Canada as part of Kincentric’s Best Employers global certification, a programme that measures and recognises leading employers who capture the full power of their people to drive results and create sustainable competitive advantage. With 20 years of experience in Best […]
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Länsförsäkringar Liv (Life) has signed The Investor Agenda’s Global Investor Statement to Governments on the Climate Crisis. This is a global climate appeal calling for the ambition and pace of climate work to increase. The call contains five demands and is aimed at governments around the world ahead of the COP26 climate summit. It has […]
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ICMIF member NTUC Income (Income) has this week launched the industry’s first micro investment-linked plan (ILP) on the SNACK by Income mobile app. Known as SNACK Investment, it adopts a “stackable” approach that allows consumers in Singapore to build their investment portfolios with bite-sized premiums while providing insurance coverage as they go about their daily […]
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Japanese ICMIF member, Zenkyoren (National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, President: Fumio Yanai), has announced that it has invested in the first “Nutrition Bond” issued by Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF), an international development bank which was established under an international agreement with various countries in Latin America. Zenkyoren says it is making this […]
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Furthering their commitment to secure a sustainable future, ICMIF member Securian Financial (USA) and its subsidiary, Securian Asset Management, have signed the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). PRI signatories are committed to including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their investment decision making and ownership. More than 4,000 organisations worldwide—including 700 US […]
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