ICMIF member SSQ Insurance (Canada) was recently awarded the Sanofi Canada Wellness Pioneer Award at Benefits Canada‘s 2020 Workplace Benefits Awards. This prestigious award recognises a long-standing commitment to prevention and health and wellness promotion at work. SSQ’s health and wellness programme, which was established 15 years ago, integrates health prevention and health promotion, a […]
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ICMIF member and specialist insurer Ecclesiastical (UK) will be giving 120 different charities an early Christmas gift of a £1,000 donation, with 10 winners announced each weekday from 7 to 22 December 2020. Ecclesiastical is inviting people in the UK to nominate a registered charity close to their hearts to benefit from this festive financial […]
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A signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment since 2009, French ICMIF member MAIF has made responsible investment a major focus of its investment policy. In 2020, the MAIF Group says it is taking a further step by adopting a demanding climate strategy which, it is hoped, will contribute to a climate transition […]
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French ICMIF member La Fédération nationale de la Mutualité Française (FNMF or La Mutualité Française) has launched Mutuelles Impact, the first mutual investment fund with a social and environmental impact on the health and medical-social sector. The investment strategy will place as much importance on the social and environmental impacts created by the fund as […]
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Argentinian ICMIF member San Cristóbal Seguros has been recognised by the Marketing and Communication Awards given by INESE Insurance School and MKSite for its project “Sitios Seguros”. The award ceremony took place in Madrid, within the framework of the XVI Marketing and Communication Meeting in the Insurance Sector (#MCSA20), which was held from 20 to […]
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Costa Rica –the Central American country known as one of the greenest countries on earth and one that consistently ranks high on the annual UN Happiness index, is also one that is now equipped with a new Regulation on Inclusion and Access to Insurance, ‘establishing a new milestone in the construction of a more developed, […]
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US ICMIF member Securian Financial, through its affiliate company Minnesota Life Insurance Company, has successfully completed a USD 100 million insurance-linked security (ILS) transaction, becoming the first US direct writer of life insurance to utilize an extreme mortality bond structure. La Vie Re, a special purpose insurer not affiliated with Securian Financial, issued USD 100 […]
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Argentinian ICMIF member RÃo Uruguay Seguros (RUS) is the first insurance company in South America to implement a virtual wallet with its own cryptocurrency based on Blockchain. Under the name RUS Coin, RUS will use this new cryptocurrency to reward insurance intermediaries for their digitisation actions and diversified insurance sales. The intermediaries are now able […]
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It was announced this week that Belgian ICMIF member P&V Assurances was once again the recipient of the 2020 Decavi societal commitment trophy. Decavi is an independent organiser of training and events in the insurance sector in Belgium and it presented its (digital) trophies for the best life insurance products of 2020 this week including […]
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ICMIF member Simplyhealth, one of the UK’s leading healthcare plan providers has developed and launched a new app, which is free to all, to support people’s health and mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and for the long-term. The mutual healthcare provider says it recognised that now is the time to amplify its long heritage […]
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