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Corporate Responsibility Strategy: CR 20.20
Helvetia has been involved in social projects for many years and works intensively to reduce the environmental impact of its business activities. With its Strategy 20.20, the Group Executive Board decided in 2015 to embed environmental, social and governance aspects even more deeply into our core business.
Global trends such as climate change and demographic, technological and regulatory developments shape our environment and require forward-thinking approaches. We have responded to these challenges with our CR Strategy 20.20 and have created the framework for the CR activities of the Helvetia Group. It supports the goals of the Helvetia 20.20 strategy as a functional strategy.
Overarching CR targets by 2020
- Increased integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in the core business
- Implementation of measures to reduce CO2 emissions
- Alignment with CR industry standards and compliance with national and international regulation on CR
- Expansion of the stakeholder communication and reinforcement of the management system
CR Materiality Matrix
We want to commit ourselves where we can achieve the greatest effects on the environment and society and make positive contributions with our corporate action. To identify the most relevant issues and adjustment points, we have engaged intensively with internationally recognised sustainability and industry standards and asked our internal and external stakeholders for their assessment.
The result is our CR Materiality Matrix, which contains the ten most important topics on which we focus our commitment. It forms the basis for the CR Strategy 20.20.
Our four ambitions
Helvetia as a sustainable insurance company
As a sustainable insurance company, we develop insurance solutions that support a low-CO2 economy. It is important to us to advise our customers personally and ensure comprehensive protection of their data. We invest our customers’ money responsibly and integrate ESG (environmental, social, governance) criteria into our investment decisions and underwriting.
Highlights and level of target achievement 2019
- Sustainable offer: Premiums from sustainable insurance products increased by about 32% (2018: 27%)
- Sustainable investments:Nearly 85% of our financial investment portfolio has low ESG risks (AAA-BBB)
- Customer expectations and protection: customer orientation as the cornerstone of the strategy Helvetia 20.20.
Helvetia as a trustworthy company
As a trustworthy company, we ensure integrity in corporate management, comply with international laws and standards, consider sustainability aspects in our risk management and procure in an environmentally and socially compatible manner.
Highlights and level of target achievement 2019
- Corporate governance: strong organisational entrenchment of compliance functions and broad awareness of the Code of Compliance.
- Risk management: integration of ESG risks in underwriting
- Absolute CO2 savings: further reduction of 1.7%. This means that the target of a 10% reduction (base year 2012) was achieved, although Helvetia has grown significantly with the acquisition of Nationale Suisse.
- Sustainable procurement: Group-wide guidelines for sustainable procurement, climate neutrality and procurement of all electricity from renewable sources.
Helvetia as an attractive employer
As an attractive employer, we care about the well-being of our employees and offer them individual development opportunities, flexible working hours and an interesting working environment. We support their commitment to the company and society and value the ideas with which they contribute to sustainable development at Helvetia.
Highlights and level of target achievement 2019
- Promotion of employees: on average, each employee undertakes over 28 hours of training a year. Satisfaction with superiors, team and work content is very high.
- Employee commitment: Helvetia offers numerous opportunities for co-determination that go beyond the legal requirements.
Helvetia as a committed location partner
Our social commitment concentrates on selected focal points at our locations that fit with our core business and corporate history. As a committed location partner, we are involved at an international level with associations, initiatives and federations that promote sustainability.
Highlights and level of target achievement 2019
- Public policy: transparent commitment through industry associations.
- Corporate citizenship: extensive commitment to the protection forest and in cooperation with the IDEA helvetia Foundation. Group-wide support worth more than 3.5 million Swiss francs for community welfare projects.