Mutually Inclusive, February 2024

What inside this issue?

  • Andrew’s opening comments
  • Q&A with AFM Vice-Chair, Ann-Marie O’dea
  • Should minimum insurance be mandated to boost financial resilience?
  • AFM leadership development programmes 2024
  • Gamifying cyber resilience
  • Accuracy matters: so why do we make mistakes?
  • Member news
  • AFM events
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Mutually Inclusive, December 2023

What’s inside this issue?

  • Andrew’s opening remarks: 2023, the year in review
  • The purpose of mutual and cooperative business in society
  • AFM Conference 2024
  • Regulation in context: ‘that was then… this is now’
  • Forester Financial launches first sustainability report
  • Cornish Mutual welcomes Meiji Yasuda for its latest Farm Walk
  • One Family: Threadbare safety nets mean better protection products are needed for families
  • New LV= research: 42% of UK adults continue to see finances deteriorating
  • Neurodiversity, an opportunity – for talent – not a problem!
  • What’s on in early 2024
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Mutually Inclusive, October 2023

In this edition:

  • Andrew’s opening remarks
  • Introducing the new AFM Board
  • Conference report
  • Join the AFM team
  • What’s the story? Mutual glory?
  • Mutuality: supporting health and wellbeing in the UK
  • Reports from LV= and OneFamily explore how confidence in family finances is falling
  • Blog: should the water companies be mutualised?
  • News from our members
  • New Sales and Marketing roundtable
  • Forthcoming Events
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Mutually Inclusive, Summer 2023

In this edition:

  • Chief Executive’s Introduction
  • The 2023 AFM Conference & AGM: have you reserved your spot?
  • Mutual Legalisation Reform: latest update on the Private Members Bill
  • Think Tank Report Proposes Steps to Support the Modern Mutual Sector
  • Worldwide mutual market share hits record levels in 2021
  • Analysing Solvency and Financial Condition across AFM members in 2022
  • Measuring the value of Mutuality
  • Keeping our employees for the long-term
  • Consumer Duty could be the gamechanger that we all need
  • Enabling a ‘just transition’: a critical role for mutuals in the ESG agenda
  • AFM welcomes new Members
  • Mutual News
  • Events and Training
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Mutually Inclusive, April 2023

In this edition:

  • Taking on the challenge and the opportunities
  • The Consumer Duty – so much more than a checklist
  • Recognising innovation in the mutual sector
  • Encouraging a focus on staff benefits through Active Ownership
  • Oh we do like to be beside the seaside! AFM Conference 2023
  • The risks and opportunities biodiversity poses to portfolios
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • AFM Events & Training

 

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Mutually Inclusive, February 2023

In this edition:

  • Calmer waters in 2023?
  • In conversation with AFM’s CEO-Designate Andrew Whyte
  • LV= makes a welcome return to AFM membership
  • Exploring the ethics and economics of AI adoption in UK Insurance
  • Mutual legislation takes next steps forward
  • Celebrating the role of sales and marketing in meeting the Consumer Duty
  • How wind farms can power returns for insurance companies
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • AFM Events & Training, with Spotlight on AFM’s Mutual Leadership Development Programme
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Mutually Inclusive, December 2022

In this edition:

  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth
  • Can value measurements indicate good outcomes for consumers?
  • The Autumn Statement: what it means for mutual insurers
  • Why Mutuality matters
  • AFM welcomes two new Associate Members, Invesco and Meiji Yasuda Europe
  • The importance of refreshing your Board
  • Are leaders ready to control the use of Artificial Intelligence in their organisations?
  • Bringing people together to solve complex problems
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • Events & Training
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Mutually Inclusive, October 2022

Included in this edition:

  • One Bill you should be looking forward to this Autumn
  • Meet the new AFM Board
  • Q&A with the new AFM Chair, Stuart Tragheim
  • A round-up of the AFM Annual Conference
  • AFM welcomes two new Members, Foresters Financial and NACFB
  • Custodians of tradition, drivers of change: Board responsibilities within mutual insurance societies
  • CEO succession planning: when was the last time you reviewed your strategy?
  • The need to act on climate change
  • The value of AI in the Life and Pensions sector
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • Events
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Mutually Inclusive, August 2022

In this edition:

  • The economy needs a strong and effective mutual sector
  • AFM Key Statistics 2021/22
  • How to succeed in emerging Life and Pensions ecosystems
  • FCA’s Consumer Duty and the impact on the boardroom
  • AFM welcomes new Associate Member, Latcham
  • Cognitive bias as a barrier to tackling climate change
  • Inspiring better futures for the next generation
  • Join us for the AFM Conference 2022
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • Events
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Mutually Inclusive, June 2022

In this edition:

  • Modernising legislation for mutual insurers and friendly societies
  • Counting down to the 2022 AFM Conference & AGM
  • Boldness, creativity and a mutual mindset – the driving force that’s needed right now
  • Analysing Solvency and Financial Condition across AFM members
  • The Consumer Duty Podcast: navigating the right path
  • AFM welcomes two new Associate Members
  • Sheffield Mutual’s approach to tackling climate change
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • Events and Training
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Mutually Inclusive, April 2022

In this edition:

  • All the right notes?
  • Anytime working: re-establishing work-life boundaries in the age of hybrid working
  • Investment allocation in a ‘managing COVID’ world: key insights from AFM members
  • Strengthening the mutual sector, post the attempted demutualisation of LV=
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • Events and Training

 

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Mutually Inclusive, February 2022

In this edition:

  • On thin ice
  • Planning for the new Consumer Duty
  • Collaboration across the wider mutual sector
  • A deeper dive into Operational Resilience
  • Insurance Investment Outlook 2022
  • Mutual Giving, Mutual News
  • Events and Training
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