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
Upcoming: 9 June 15:00-16:00 BST Life insurers across the ICMIF membership are navigating an increasingly complex, yet diverse reinsurance landscape. Pressures on capital and liquidity, evolving product specifications, and changing reinsurer appetites, are all key themes that mean the structuring and management of reinsurance programmes has never been more important. Guy Carpenter will share insights […]
Upcoming: 18 June 15:00-16:00 BST How can mutuals innovate with a fintech mindset? In this webinar, WealthWizards—part of Royal London (UK)— will share its approach to purpose-led innovation, demonstrating how it is making guidance and financial advice more accessible and affordable. As a market-leading fintech business specialising in technology-enabled financial guidance and advice solutions, Wealth […]
Upcoming: 22 June 15:00-16:00 BST This 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 ICMIF members will […]
Upcoming: 8 July, 15:00-16:00 BST This webinar will explore how ICMIF members Co-operators, Gore Mutual and Wawanesa are addressing Canada’s wildfire vulnerabilities, and the complexities of providing affordable insurance, particularly for homes in high-hazard wildfire areas. Although these examples are drawn from Canada, the insights derived from them are applicable to a wide range of […]
Past webinars
The impact of digitalisation is transforming the traditional insurance business model and revolutionising value creation within the industry. Insurers can no longer satisfy themselves with offering cover, they must develop ecosystems of services that offer added value to their customers. Through ecosystems, insurance can play a role in supporting compatible and integrated services and partners […]
Mutual and cooperative insurers fill a unique role within the wider international insurance community. Some of the oldest, largest and most secure insurers in the world are mutual – meaning owned by their policyholders. This webinar looks at how that is translated into Enterprise Risk Management objectives and practices. It explains how many practices are […]
As InsurTech start-up firms rapidly enter the insurance sector, their potential to disrupt the insurance ecosystem could also revolutionise value creation within the industry. In order to embrace this change, many insurers are looking to invest in or partner with start-ups to leverage the opportunities offered by emerging technologies, new business models and to gain […]
The Co-operators began its sustainability journey in 2008 and a more recent part of that journey has been the development of its impact investing strategy. Impact investing serves to amplify the values that are upheld through The Co-operators’ sustainability strategy, while it remains as crucial as ever that the comapany delivers competitive financial returns. In […]
The ICMIF 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance Strategy aims to develop mutual microinsurance in five emerging market countries (Colombia, India, Kenya, the Philippines and Sri Lanka) to reach 5 million previously uninsured, low-income people over a period of five years. The ultimate objective being to take low-income people out of poverty through the provision of mutual microinsurance […]
Cyber insurance has long been identified as a key customer need in northern Europe. In a region with the highest internet usage and connectivity rates in the world, cyber vulnerabilities are a leading concern among business owners. ICMIF member Länsförsäkringar was the first insurer to include cyber and data protection insurance as standard across large […]
Embedding innovation into business strategy and organisational culture is critical for insurers to survive and thrive in today’s fast-changing world. By engaging millennials in this process, many mutual/cooperative insurers are seeing a dual benefit: firstly, the fresh thinking and innovative perspectives from younger employees is helping to shape the capabilities, structures and culture required to […]
This webinar features a panel of ICMIF members discussing current reinsurance market issues. The panel includes the cedant, reinsurer, broker and rating agency perspectives on the recent 1st January and 1st April reinsurance renewals as well as exploring industry hot topics such as emerging risks, non-traditional capacity and the impact of technology. Speakers: Vivian Vourdoumpa, […]
Embedding sustainability across an organisation requires commitment and innovation. It is more than changing processes, products and services, partnerships or governance. An organization that has authentically embedded sustainability into their corporate strategy needs to engage all levels and areas of the company including senior management and the Board of Directors, as well as external stakeholders. […]
In this webinar, ICMIF member Swiss Mobiliar present the key milestones, adaptations and learnings from its current innovation strategy, which involves a dual transformation of digitizing the core business (the “mothership”) whilst exploring new innovation initiatives (“speedboats”). It includes an overview of Mobiliar’s different approaches for different innovation horizons and its process to identify, test […]