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
A 2019 report, Mutual microinsurance and the Sustainable Development Goals: an impact assessment following Typhoon Haiyan, by The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), explored how mutual microinsurance, enabled by adequate regulation, can contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by increasing the protection and resilience of low-income communities. The report […]
In 2020, P&V (Belgium) launched a new on-demand and subscription-based bicycle insurance product, Vélo, the first of its kind in the Belgian market. Referred to by many as the “Netflix for insurance”, this unique offering combines some of the successful characteristics of the leading subscription-based streaming platform with the cooperative DNA of P&V. This webinar […]
Wawanesa’s award winning, Strategic Systems Renewal (SSR), was an enterprise-wide digital strategy transforming the way their P&C companies serve its customers and broker partners. This 10-year journey covered the entire insurance value chain with Guidewire’s InsuranceSuite at its core. Despite hurdles and challenges to implementation along the way, the completion of SSR has positioned Wawanesa […]
Investment in insurtech reached new heights in 2020. ‘Tech-first’ insurers continue to unlock new opportunities across the entire value chain and are growing at rates that make them increasingly difficult to ignore. And insurers, of all stripes and sizes, continue to pursue their digital transformation agendas with varying degrees of success. These are just a […]
The efficient use of resources is one of six target areas that underpins Folksam’s integrated sustainability efforts, with measurable objectives directly linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goal for responsible consumption and production (SDG 12): one of the six SDGs that Folksam focuses on. By promoting the development of circular economy and minimising the consumption […]
In November 2019, the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) began a multi-year collaboration to help address the urgent challenge of reducing disaster risks. Specifically, the collaboration aims to identify what is needed in practical terms to enable a shift within the insurance industry […]
In 2020, Danish ICMIF member LB Group launched a number of new features and innovations in its motor insurance offering. These included an on-demand insurance policy covering all types of car share schemes and rentals; discounted insurance cover for climate-friendly cars; and a new telematics driving app that aims to prevent traffic accidents. LB’s purpose […]
In this webinar, Willis Re share what it is seeing in the (re)insurance market and how the sector is responding to the highly volatile external environment that we are facing as a result of COVID-19. As well as looking at the current market, and why it is important for mutual and cooperative insurers to get […]
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, innovation which utilises recent technology and flexible working is needed more than ever for cooperative and mutual insurers. In the context of the current environment, three organisations from the Asia and Oceania region share their experiences of successfully pivoting their strategies by adopting a people-first approach; implementing initiatives […]
German mutual insurer HUK-Coburg first began experimenting with telematics in motor insurance in 2013. It launched its first telematics product in 2016, a black box solution that was only offered to young drivers in an attempt to lower their premiums. In 2019, it discontinued this offering, and launched a new telematics solution available to all […]