UK ICMIF member OneFamily has announced that it will be acquiring Beagle Street by the end of the year, in a deal that will see the mutual expanding its product range and the support it can give to its members. Beagle Street, part of BGL Insurance, specialises in affordable, simple to purchase life and critical […]
At the end of last month, Co-op Insurance, one of UK’s leading provider of home insurance, announced that it will be one of the first three participating insurers for the new Amazon Insurance Store. By the end of the year, customers will be able to purchase Co-op Insurance policies on amazon.co.uk alongside products they may […]
ICMIF members Halwell Mutual and The Commonwell Mutual were recently certified among the best workplaces in the Canadian insurance and financial service industry by Great Place to Work®, a global authority on workplace culture. The 2022 list of Best Workplaces™ in Financial Services and Insurance is based on direct feedback from employees of the hundreds […]
This week, at its Centenary Conference being held in Rome (Italy), ICMIF launched the ICMIF Resiliency Benchmark which builds on the work set out from the Federation’s partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) to embed disaster risk reduction (DRR) in mutual and cooperative insurance. In November 2019, the International Cooperative […]
Today, at its Centenary Conference being held in Rome (Italy), ICMIF has launched the ICMIF-calibrated Insurance SDG Calculator, the first tool to measure insurance sustainability impact against the Insurance Sustainable Development Goals (iSDGs). Swiss Re Institute developed the underlying tool under the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance (UN PSI) iSDG initiative, focused on developing insurance-relevant […]
UK ICMIF member VDS announced that GBP 600,000 in return of premium will be shared between eligible members who apply to renew their VDS Practice policy for 2023 by the end of December 2022 and this year will once again be given as a discount against the 2023 renewal premium. Reflecting VDS’s mutual model, a […]
The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) has announced that Rob Wesseling, President and CEO, Co-operators (Canada) will be the Federation’s new Chair for a four-year term. The announcement was made during the Federation’s General Meeting on Wednesday 26 October which took place during the ICMIF Centenary Conference in Rome, hosted by ICMIF member […]
UNDP and the ICMIF Foundation are launching a new mechanism to promote innovative mutual insurance schemes to better protect the most vulnerable in developing countries The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the ICMIF Foundation today launched the Insurance Innovation Challenge Fund. The Fund, initially funded with USD 600,000, will enable mutual insurance initiatives to […]
This week, over 400 leaders from the global mutual and cooperative insurance sector will meet in Rome (Italy) for the ICMIF Centenary Conference. Founded in Rome in 1922, ICMIF is the global association for cooperative and mutual insurers. As a membership organisation, the Federation’s mission is to help its member companies achieve their strategic goals […]
Australian ICMIF member Capricorn Mutual exceeded AUD 100 million in sales (gross protection revenue) in 2022 for the first time in its 20-year history, despite having paid out record sums for claims during one of Australia’s biggest natural disasters in early 2022. More than 200 Capricorn members affected by the devastating New South Wales and […]