ICMIF webinars are organised exclusively for the benefit of ICMIF members, looking at current strategic issues and the latest trends impacting the cooperative/mutual insurance sector. They bring thought leadership and showcase best practice from ICMIF member organisations and prominent industry experts.
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Upcoming webinars
3 July 2024
Date: Wednesday 3 July, 3pm BST (UK time) In this webinar, mutual life insurer Assumption Life will share its successful journey to expand and grow its customer base across Canada through innovative and strategic distribution partnerships. Recognising the need to adapt to changing consumer demands and explore alternative distribution models, Assumption Life leveraged Lavvi’s online […]
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Date: Wednesday 17 July, 3pm (BST/UK time) This new ICMIF webinar series features high-level discussions with a panel of CEO and executive leaders from mutual/cooperative insurers around the world. Each of the quarterly webinars will feature a different panel, thereby showcasing insights from members around the world. These regular insights from the leading CEOs at […]
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Sustainability, ESG and the SDGs are a few of the many ‘green buzzwords’ that now appear in everyday conversation. At all levels within organisations, including as high as the board room, today’s businesses are either starting their sustainability journey or are well on their way. Sustainability is the undertaking of activities that demonstrate forward-looking social, […]
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Elon Musk recently tweeted “ESG ratings make no sense”… is he right? Boards of (re)insurance companies are increasingly aware of the importance of incorporating ESG considerations in business decisions. Whereas the Environmental component (E) of ESG is often better understood, the Social (S) and Governance (G) components are frequently internally-looking and under-represented in insurers’ approaches. […]
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The European Extreme Events Climate Index (E3CI) is an innovative operational service for the assessment and management of weather-induced risks, developed by the International Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Human Development Foundation (iFAB) in collaboration with Leithà , the Unipol Group’s competence centre for Computer Science and Data Science, and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of the workplace and people’s working lives. As organisations are adapting to the new world of work driven by an acceleration in remote and flexible working, this webinar hears from three HR leaders from ICMIF members who share their experiences of preparing their organisations for the future of […]
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As ICMIF celebrated its 100-year anniversary on Monday 25 April 2022, Hilde Vernaillen, Chair of ICMIF and Group CEO of P&V Group, Belgium, joined ICMIF Chief Executive Shaun Tarbuck for an exclusive fireside chat. P&V was one of ICMIF’s founding members and Shaun and Hilde reflect on the last 100 years of ICMIF and its […]
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Over the past year, a number of ICMIF members have announced net zero commitments to transition their investment portfolios and insurance operations to become carbon neutral businesses over the next 30 years. This includes joining the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZ AOA): a group of 71 of the world’s largest investors that have […]
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In February 2022, ICMIF launched a new report Leveraging the mutual difference which shared the findings of a recent member survey of marketing and communication functions across the ICMIF membership to see how members used their mutual/cooperative status as a point of difference when marketing and communicating to customers, when recruiting, and when communicating with employees. […]
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In the fourth AOA webinar in this series on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), three cooperative/mutual insurers share initiatives for improving people’s lives – with a primary target of women’s lives – by creating sustainable and healthy communities: focusing on Goal 1 (No poverty), Goal 3 (Good health and well-being), Goal 4 (Quality education), Goal […]
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A ground-breaking performance measurement approach, the Mutual Value Measurement (MVM) framework, is enabling cooperatives and mutuals to measure and report their total value for the first time. MVM has been co-developed by a research team from the Monash Business School (Melbourne, Australia), the Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals (BCCM) and 13 cooperatives and mutuals […]
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Onderlinge ‘s-Gravenhage (OG) is a medium-sized Dutch mutual life insurer. Five years ago the mutual insurer was considered a solid, but old-fashioned organisation, operating in a declining market with a low interest environment. The insurer then launched a new strategy, OG2go, focused on its mutual roots and where it could provide the insurer with a […]
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