Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Axa Research Fund gets €50m endowment
Axa has committed €50m (£44m) to its research fund over the next five years.
Q&A: Lynda Lucas, chair, Airmic
Lucas began her career as a company secretarial trainee at British Aerospace and has since had various risk management roles at companies including Nortel, Old Mutual and, since 2006, Fujitsu. She has been an Association of Insurance and Risk Managers…
Penny Black's Social World - July 2018
Sprintathons and stepping up, Pride parades and football fever
Content director's comment: Insurtech eyes for straight guys
What does being ‘more like an insurtech’ mean? Recruiting people with facial hair and skinny jeans is only the start of the journey.
Penny Black's social world: June 2018
Mucky hacks, the Duchenne Dash and starring with stormtroopers
Group risk workshops launched to help those newer to the industry
Group Risk Development, the industry body for the group risk protection sector, is launching a training academy.
Horwich Farrelly's tactics to ditch plastic
Horwich Farrelly has pledged to eliminate all single-use plastic items by 2020 and is encouraging its 750 employees to document creative ways to reduce their own plastic consumption. The two winners of an internal competition will be rewarded with a…
Zurich provides numeracy training to Birmingham pupils
Zurich is partnering with Holly Lodge High School in Smethwick, near Birmingham, to deliver financial literacy training.
Insure the Box tops 2500 employee learning hours in nine months
Insure the Box has delivered over 2500 hours of employee learning in just nine months.
Hastings staff to get instant customer feedback
Hastings Direct is rolling out a customer sentiment platform that will give its staff real-time access to their own customer feedback.
Career development: Zurich increases volunteering leave for employees
Zurich is increasing the number of days employees can volunteer from one to three in a year.
Penny Black's Social World - May 2018
Dolls house and dinner, endurance and experience
Career Development: Zurich achieves Disability Confident Leader certification
Zurich is the first insurer to achieve Disability Confident Leader status under the auspices of the Department for Work and Pensions scheme.
Analysis: A changing investment climate
Insurers are increasingly finding themselves under pressure on three fronts when it comes to climate change – as underwriters, as major investors and as large employers with their own substantial carbon footprints. That pressure is about to intensify.
Penny Black's social world: January 2018
Hot coffee, hampers and a heroine
Post Power List 2018
2018 is likely to be a year dominated by data regulation, more Brexit negotiations and further Ogden reform and, as such, the key influencers reflect this
Interview: Daniel Schreiber, Lemonade
Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber talks about the expansion plans of the US-based start-up that uses artificial intelligence to validate claims and donates profits to charities.
This week in Post: Anti-bullying, Amex and IPOs
As the mother of a nine-year-old son who is growing up in a digital world where his life might be played out on social media I was shocked to learn that Childline held over 12,000 counselling sessions with children who were concerned about an online…
Blog: 12,000 cries for help on bullying, what can insurers do?
Insurers have a role to play against online bullying, explains Alison Colver, national high net worth underwriting manager at Covéa.
Interview: Inga Beale, Chartered Insurance Institute
LIoyd’s CEO Inga Beale was elected the 121st president of the Chartered Insurance Institute at the body’s annual general meeting in July.
Career Development: Lloyd's graduate programme
Lloyd’s has opened applications for its 2018 graduate programme