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“Microinsurance comes from the heart, but it is a business and not a charity.”
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- Alvaro Uribe
President of Colombia
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An extensive glossary provides definitions of important MicroInsurance terms.
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Insures and Reinsurers Involved in Microinsurance
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Allianz
Allianz offers a broad range of services in over 70 countries. This is achieved through an international network of subsidiaries, which generally command a strong position in their respective home markets. They note that their core businesses are the three P`s: Protection (property and casualty), Provision (life and health insurance) and Performance (asset management).
They have begun offering the first Takaful Microinsurance products in Indonesia, and have a line of other microinsurance products.
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Tata-AIG Life
The focus of Tata AIG Life`s Microinsurance program is rural India, where traditionally the far-flung, lower and lower middle-income segments have had limited access to life insurance services.
Tata-AIG uses an interesting model for delivery through individual community members acting as agents.
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AVIVA Life (India)
Micro-insurance helps reduce vulnerabilities of the micro finance clients and saves them from disastrous liabilities. In India
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Zurich Financial
Zurich is a leader in microinsurance activities and has a dedicated microinsurance unit in Zurich Switzerland, and specific activities in several countries where they have operations.
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CUNA Mutual Group
CUNA Mutual Group`s International operations provide insurance and financial services to credit unions and their members in nearly 30 countries around the world. For more than 50 years, CUNA Mutual has served the international credit union system by providing solutions to grow and stabilize credit union movements in many countries.
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Swiss Re
As the world`s leading and most diversified global reinsurer, Swiss Re offers financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. The Group`s position as preferred partner in the risk transfer industry is based on value propositions that comprise risk expertise, global reach, scale, diversification, very strong capitalisation and resilience over the long term.
Swiss Re has been involved in microinsurance especially as relates to index insurance.
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Munich Re Group
Outlines Munich Re`s interventions in microinsurance.
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Asia Micro-Insurance Network (AMIN)
A regional network of community-based microinsurance pratitioners in collaboration with the ILO/STEP Program.
Includes community-based microinsurance scheme inventories in several countries.
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Microcare Uganda
As a registered insurance company with a health background Microcare has been able to create a unique range of health insurance, micro-insurance and health fund administration services. Integrating smartcards and biometric technologies, advanced database networking and online claims processing, has enabled Microcare to securely manage health data, control fraud and deliver accountability to clients.
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paraLife
ParaLife has initiated a movement which provides unique opportunities to people with disabilities and offers benefits to them and their families. ParaLife reaches out to these communities and to people in the low-income and poor sector of the society in emerging markets.
ParaLife has created a unique capability to efficiently deliver affordable life insurance products to people in the low income and poor sectors, to micro entrepreneurs and in particular also to people with disabilities.
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Partner Re
Work with the agriculture industry using temperature, rainfall, snowfall and wind – help clients manage weather risk. Will underwrite virtually any weather-related peril – temperature, precipitation, snowfall, wind, sunshine hours.
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CruzSalud
Health Insurance in Venezuala.
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