This week, Canadian ICMIF member Wawanesa was announced as one of the winners of Guidewire’s 2020 Innovation Awards, honouring insurers that are adapting to an accelerating pace of industry change and evolving customer needs in innovative ways. In their fourteenth year, this year’s awards – announced during Guidewire’s annual Connections Reimagined conference – recognised four […]
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Scott Jean, President and CEO of ICMIF member EMC Insurance Companies (USA), recently signed two pledges to show EMC’s public support of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) as a business imperative—the CEO Action Pledge for Diversity & Inclusion and the CEO Commitment to Racial Equity in DSM. EMC aims to deepen its DE&I commitment […]
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ICMIF member The Co-operators (Canada) have launched Pathways to Employability (P2E), a CAD 2 million Co-operators Community Funds initiative dedicated to supporting the employability of marginalised Canadian youth who have lost jobs or educational opportunities due to COVID-19 shutdowns. “We know that young Canadians have been significantly impacted by COVID-related job losses and educational disruption, primarily due […]
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The launch of the LIFE ADA (ADaptation in Agriculture) project will aim to increase the resilience of the Italian agricultural sector through developing knowledge and planning tools that groups of producers and farmers can use to adapt to climate change. ICMIF member Unipol (Italy), through subsidiary UnipolSai, will be the lead company in this project. The main targets of the […]
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ICMIF member OneFamily (UK) is supporting a campaign that will transform the horizons and prospects of young black people in the UK. The #10000BlackInterns programme, which has the backing of former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, will offer paid work experience, training and development opportunities for young black talent across a wide range of sectors […]
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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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