1) Allianz Indonesia ran a pilot project from 2013-2014 with 4 small microfinance institutions to test selling additional voluntary insurance products to their existing credit life insurance customers, with a target conversion rate of 5%.
2) Two partners achieved conversion rates above 15%, while the other two achieved around 2%, bringing the overall rate to the target 5%. The most successful partners shared Allianz's vision of enhancing customer value over commissions.
3) A personal accident product proved most popular, offering high coverage for a small $2 premium. However, products were only slightly adapted and not fully tailored to customer needs due to time constraints.
A project report on customers attitude towards hdfc standard life insuranceBabasab Patil
This document summarizes a study on customer attitudes towards HDFC Standard Life Insurance. The objectives of the study were to understand customer awareness, attitudes towards the brand and products, attitudes towards service, and factors influencing purchasing decisions. Primary data was collected through surveys of 100 existing HDFC customers in Belgaum city. Key findings include that 35% prefer unit linked plans for higher returns, major competitors are LIC and ICICI Prudential, and 79% would invest up to 20% of income in life insurance. Suggestions focus on enhancing customer experience through effective CRM. The conclusion is that family welfare is the main investment factor considered, but returns, security and tax benefits are also important.
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance is a joint venture between Bajaj Finserv Limited and Allianz SE. It is one of the leading general insurance companies in India with over 3,500 employees and offices across 200+ cities. The company offers a wide range of insurance products including motor, health, travel, commercial, and cyber insurance. It aims to provide excellent customer service and be the preferred insurer through innovative products and a strong focus on customer centricity.
Project on CREDIT INSURANCE by Akshat MahendraAKSHAT MAHENDRA
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This document provides an overview of the insurance industry in India and the entrance of private players. It discusses the history of insurance regulation in India and the key reforms in 2000 that allowed private companies to enter the life insurance sector. It then lists the 11 major private life insurance companies currently operating in India, including their ownership structures and investors. The private insurers have increased competition in the sector and helped expand insurance coverage compared to when only the state-owned LIC previously dominated.
Bancassurance has been a successful distribution channel for insurance and takaful companies globally. There are different models used, such as banks using their own sales staff or insurers placing agents in banks. Over 50% of insurance is estimated to be generated through bancassurance. Growth has been higher in Asia than the Middle East, where insurance penetration is below 2% of GDP. However, with the emergence of Islamic finance, bancatakaful success has increased, especially in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar. For bancatakaful to be sustainable, relationships between partners must be equal, regulatory frameworks must protect all interests, and customers must be satisfied through education, training and incentives.
Banccassurance project for banking & insurance financealkanm
Bancassurance involves the distribution of insurance products through a bank's distribution channels. It provides both banking and insurance products and services through a common channel. For banks, it is a means of diversifying products and generating fee income, while insurers see it as a way to increase market penetration and premium turnover. Customers benefit from reduced prices, high quality products, and convenient access through their banks. While it has been successful in other countries, bancassurance is still in early stages in India, but holds potential to transform insurance distribution. Key challenges include the need for simple products that are easy to understand and sell through banks.
Bajaj Finserv provides loans for consumer durable products through various financing schemes. The document analyzes Bajaj Finserv's time to cash process, which aims to pay dealers within 5 days of loan approval. It finds that delayed dealer payments are often due to late document submission by customers or lethargy of sales executives. Holding files for signature mismatches or pending older files also increases processing time. Automating processes and educating customers on documentation could help Bajaj Finserv achieve faster time to cash. The conclusion states that Bajaj Finserv's lending plays an important role in consumers' financial stability.
A project report on customers attitude towards hdfc standard life insuranceBabasab Patil
This document summarizes a study on customer attitudes towards HDFC Standard Life Insurance. The objectives of the study were to understand customer awareness, attitudes towards the brand and products, attitudes towards service, and factors influencing purchasing decisions. Primary data was collected through surveys of 100 existing HDFC customers in Belgaum city. Key findings include that 35% prefer unit linked plans for higher returns, major competitors are LIC and ICICI Prudential, and 79% would invest up to 20% of income in life insurance. Suggestions focus on enhancing customer experience through effective CRM. The conclusion is that family welfare is the main investment factor considered, but returns, security and tax benefits are also important.
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance is a joint venture between Bajaj Finserv Limited and Allianz SE. It is one of the leading general insurance companies in India with over 3,500 employees and offices across 200+ cities. The company offers a wide range of insurance products including motor, health, travel, commercial, and cyber insurance. It aims to provide excellent customer service and be the preferred insurer through innovative products and a strong focus on customer centricity.
Project on CREDIT INSURANCE by Akshat MahendraAKSHAT MAHENDRA
Project Report on CREDIT INSURANCE
Project on CREDIT
BBI SEM 6 Project
Project Report on CREDIT
Semester VI BBI Blackbook Project 100 Marks
Project Report on INSURANCE
Semester 6 BBI Blackbook Project 100 Marks
Project on INSURANCE
Project on Finance
Project on Finance BBI
B.Com (BANKING and INSURANCE)
Project for BBI
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BANKING & INSURANCE
Semester 6 B.Com BANKING and INSURANCE Blackbook Project 100 Marks
BANKING and INSURANCE
Semester 6 BANKING and INSURANCE Blackbook Project 100 Marks
B.Com BANKING and INSURANCE
This document provides an overview of the insurance industry in India and the entrance of private players. It discusses the history of insurance regulation in India and the key reforms in 2000 that allowed private companies to enter the life insurance sector. It then lists the 11 major private life insurance companies currently operating in India, including their ownership structures and investors. The private insurers have increased competition in the sector and helped expand insurance coverage compared to when only the state-owned LIC previously dominated.
Bancassurance has been a successful distribution channel for insurance and takaful companies globally. There are different models used, such as banks using their own sales staff or insurers placing agents in banks. Over 50% of insurance is estimated to be generated through bancassurance. Growth has been higher in Asia than the Middle East, where insurance penetration is below 2% of GDP. However, with the emergence of Islamic finance, bancatakaful success has increased, especially in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar. For bancatakaful to be sustainable, relationships between partners must be equal, regulatory frameworks must protect all interests, and customers must be satisfied through education, training and incentives.
Banccassurance project for banking & insurance financealkanm
Bancassurance involves the distribution of insurance products through a bank's distribution channels. It provides both banking and insurance products and services through a common channel. For banks, it is a means of diversifying products and generating fee income, while insurers see it as a way to increase market penetration and premium turnover. Customers benefit from reduced prices, high quality products, and convenient access through their banks. While it has been successful in other countries, bancassurance is still in early stages in India, but holds potential to transform insurance distribution. Key challenges include the need for simple products that are easy to understand and sell through banks.
Bajaj Finserv provides loans for consumer durable products through various financing schemes. The document analyzes Bajaj Finserv's time to cash process, which aims to pay dealers within 5 days of loan approval. It finds that delayed dealer payments are often due to late document submission by customers or lethargy of sales executives. Holding files for signature mismatches or pending older files also increases processing time. Automating processes and educating customers on documentation could help Bajaj Finserv achieve faster time to cash. The conclusion states that Bajaj Finserv's lending plays an important role in consumers' financial stability.
The Accenture Technology Vision for Insurance 2018 report highlights how rapid advances in technology are improving the ways people work and live, and how insurers are reinventing their businesses to keep pace.
Sip on underwriting process in reliance life insurance by adil khanadil.khan36
Reliance Life Insurance is a private life insurance company in India that is part of the Reliance Capital group. The life insurance industry in India has grown significantly since liberalization in 2000 allowed private companies. Underwriting helps insurance companies minimize risk by evaluating factors for each policy such as age, health, occupation, and family history. The document provides an overview of the life insurance industry in India, details about Reliance Life Insurance, and outlines the objectives and methodology of the project to analyze the underwriting process at Reliance Life Insurance.
This document discusses how analytics can be used to drive customer lifecycle management. It makes three key points:
1) Current analytical approaches used by most firms focus too much on driving new customer acquisition through the traditional marketing funnel, rather than managing the entire customer lifecycle. This leads firms to prioritize volume growth over long-term profitability.
2) To effectively use analytics across the customer lifecycle, firms must align their lifecycle perspectives and programs with the customer's decision-making process, determine the appropriate breadth and depth of analytical techniques, and use customer value and profitability as a common goal.
3) The document outlines how different analytical techniques such as segmentation, propensity modeling, and cross-
Sohail Jaffer presented on the challenges and opportunities for bancassurance in the Middle East region. Some of the key challenges included the lack of a single market across countries, low customer awareness of insurance benefits, and price competition among insurers. Opportunities included utilizing different distribution channels to reach various customer segments, leveraging mobile technology, conducting customer needs surveys, and certifying insurance sales staff. The growing unfunded end of service gratuity liability and lack of retirement savings options also present opportunities for bancassurance partnerships to develop solutions.
The document discusses trends affecting marketing and customer service, including:
1) Customers are more demanding and volatile, with high expectations yet low satisfaction.
2) Customer interactions are complex with many touchpoints across channels.
3) Marketing must own the growth agenda and transform to address these new dynamics.
SERVICE DIFFERNTIATING OF LIC AND BAJAJ ALLIANZ - a comparision on 7p's of se...Sunny Gandhi
LIC and Bajaj Allianz both utilize various communication channels. Within their organizations, they use websites and help centers to provide customers information. Outside their organizations, they rely on advertisements through television, radio, and social media to promote their brands and positioning. While LIC has traditionally focused on slogans emphasizing protection throughout life, Bajaj Allianz aims to position itself as offering comprehensive insurance solutions. Both companies prepare advertising to achieve communication objectives and effectively place their image in customers' minds.
Proposal writing sales startup tutorial tips and advice (from a sales dude p...Harpal Kochar
The document provides tips and advice for presenting a winning value proposition in a proposal. It discusses the importance of demonstrating value, especially when trying to displace an incumbent vendor or when proposed changes involve significant risks, costs, or changes to existing processes. It emphasizes quantifying value using measurable outcomes, presenting value propositions graphically, and linking value to the client's priorities. Differentiators should be based on unique aspects of the solution or ways of working rather than features alone. The value proposition formula compares the value and costs of the proposed solution to alternatives. Overall, the document provides strategic advice for crafting a compelling value proposition that will appeal to the client's self-interest.
This document discusses key drivers of change that will shape the global context and hotel industry over the next decade. It identifies shifts in economic power from West to East, with the rise of Asian economies and middle classes. Public debt levels across developed economies are high and economic uncertainty may continue. Technology and connectivity will further transform the industry and customer expectations. The needs and behaviors of tomorrow's travelers will be more diverse. Hotels will need to prepare for various scenarios and evolve their business models, strategies, and operations to meet the demands of an uncertain future.
A COMPARISON BETWEEN UJJIVAN AND SPANDANA- MICROFINANCEGowri Balah
Ujjivan and Spandana are microfinance institutions that provide financial services targeting low-income populations. Ujjivan has 552 branches across 24 states, while Spandana has 694 branches across 15 states. The key differences are that Ujjivan collects a 10% security deposit for loans over 15,000 INR while Spandana does not require any security deposit. Ujjivan also has larger group sizes of 20-60 members compared to Spandana's group sizes of 5-10 members. Both institutions have experienced significant year-over-year growth in income, costs, profits and other financial metrics between 2018-2019.
Bancassurance allows banks to sell insurance products through their distribution channels, forming partnerships between banks and insurers. This provides immediate access to new markets and increased penetration for insurers. Banks benefit through additional income from commissions and enhanced customer satisfaction from offering diverse services. Customers benefit from lower prices, better quality products, and convenient purchasing through their banks. Regulations in India require separate governance of banking and insurance, but allow banks to partner with insurers as agents.
The future of customer service - the rise of the social customerIt's Open
The document discusses the rise of social media and its impact on customer service. It notes that customer expectations have increased as people are adopting social media faster than companies are adapting. It provides a 10 step framework for organizations to prepare for the social future of customer service, including conducting an audit, using a conversation prism to understand customer interactions, developing multi-channel strategies, training employees, integrating customer service with other business units, selecting and implementing CRM software, and defining metrics to measure success. The conclusion states that successful companies will place social customers at the center of operations, which can reduce costs and increase customer loyalty.
The document discusses the trend of "omni-colleagues," where companies are re-integrating human employees into digital interfaces and customer experiences. It notes that while companies had been moving towards more automated and robotic customer service, replacing human interactions was not working. Specifically:
- Companies are emphasizing their employees as "colleagues" rather than "staff" to build camaraderie between employees and customers. Some services now rate and review individual employees.
- Companies are providing digital tools to employees but also training them in social skills to have more meaningful interactions with customers.
- Moving forward, companies will look to equip employees to take meaningful actions for users through digital tools, making employees "omni-
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1. In low-income countries, a higher percentage of entrepreneurs are considered
2. A(n) _____ is a formal document that describes a business concept and outlines the core business
A study on bancassurance final year projAmol Dhumal
The document provides an introduction to the concept of bancassurance. It discusses how bancassurance originated in France in the 1980s to describe the sale of insurance products through banks. Bancassurance allows banks to sell insurance policies and earn commission income. It has since spread to other parts of the world and taken different forms depending on the country. In India, bancassurance is still a new concept that began in 2000 and is seen as an opportunity for both banks and insurance companies to expand their customer bases and distribution channels.
The document discusses transmedia storytelling as a way for brands to generate interest in their products and services. It defines transmedia storytelling as stories that unfold across multiple media platforms with each platform making a distinctive contribution. The document then provides examples of brands like Lego that have successfully used transmedia storytelling through developing characters and narratives that engage consumers across different media. It also outlines some of the challenges of using transmedia storytelling for brands, such as the perceived costs and complexity of execution, before concluding with recommendations around focusing on developing franchises rather than one-off campaigns and prioritizing the user experience.
Summer internship taining project report kotak life insuranceShubham Aggarwal
its a full project report on kotak mahindra life insurance based on summer internship. it covers the survey of 50 people that what was their perception regarding kotak and other insurance provider by filling up a questionnaire.
This document provides information about Ankita Garg's summer training project conducted at HDFC Life Insurance. It includes a declaration by Ankita, acknowledgements, table of contents, lists of tables and figures, and an executive summary. The project report was submitted in partial fulfillment of Ankita's MBA degree and aimed to study the products of HDFC Life under the supervision of her professor and HDFC Life employees.
The bank insurance model (BIM), also sometimes known as bancassurance or allfinanz, is the partnership or relationship between a bank and an insurance company, or a single integrated organisation, whereby the insurance company uses the bank sales channel in order to sell insurance products, an arrangement in which a bank and an insurance company form a partnership so that the insurance company can sell its products to the bank's client base.
Allianz Indonesia - 11th MR Microinsurance Conference - Upselling on Credit L...Yoga Prasetyo
Allianz Indonesia has piloted an upselling program with microfinance partners to offer voluntary insurance products like personal accident and hospital cash plans to existing credit life customers. A study found that 45% of credit life customers were unaware of their insurance coverage. The pilot program saw a 5% conversion rate on average across 4 partners reaching over 12,000 customers. Successful partners integrated insurance explanations and sales into their standard operating procedures, while unsuccessful partners lacked clear rules and staff awareness. Moving forward, Allianz plans to scale up the approach, improve renewals, conduct awareness campaigns tied to sales, and develop more attractive product offerings.
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
The Accenture Technology Vision for Insurance 2018 report highlights how rapid advances in technology are improving the ways people work and live, and how insurers are reinventing their businesses to keep pace.
Sip on underwriting process in reliance life insurance by adil khanadil.khan36
Reliance Life Insurance is a private life insurance company in India that is part of the Reliance Capital group. The life insurance industry in India has grown significantly since liberalization in 2000 allowed private companies. Underwriting helps insurance companies minimize risk by evaluating factors for each policy such as age, health, occupation, and family history. The document provides an overview of the life insurance industry in India, details about Reliance Life Insurance, and outlines the objectives and methodology of the project to analyze the underwriting process at Reliance Life Insurance.
This document discusses how analytics can be used to drive customer lifecycle management. It makes three key points:
1) Current analytical approaches used by most firms focus too much on driving new customer acquisition through the traditional marketing funnel, rather than managing the entire customer lifecycle. This leads firms to prioritize volume growth over long-term profitability.
2) To effectively use analytics across the customer lifecycle, firms must align their lifecycle perspectives and programs with the customer's decision-making process, determine the appropriate breadth and depth of analytical techniques, and use customer value and profitability as a common goal.
3) The document outlines how different analytical techniques such as segmentation, propensity modeling, and cross-
Sohail Jaffer presented on the challenges and opportunities for bancassurance in the Middle East region. Some of the key challenges included the lack of a single market across countries, low customer awareness of insurance benefits, and price competition among insurers. Opportunities included utilizing different distribution channels to reach various customer segments, leveraging mobile technology, conducting customer needs surveys, and certifying insurance sales staff. The growing unfunded end of service gratuity liability and lack of retirement savings options also present opportunities for bancassurance partnerships to develop solutions.
The document discusses trends affecting marketing and customer service, including:
1) Customers are more demanding and volatile, with high expectations yet low satisfaction.
2) Customer interactions are complex with many touchpoints across channels.
3) Marketing must own the growth agenda and transform to address these new dynamics.
SERVICE DIFFERNTIATING OF LIC AND BAJAJ ALLIANZ - a comparision on 7p's of se...Sunny Gandhi
LIC and Bajaj Allianz both utilize various communication channels. Within their organizations, they use websites and help centers to provide customers information. Outside their organizations, they rely on advertisements through television, radio, and social media to promote their brands and positioning. While LIC has traditionally focused on slogans emphasizing protection throughout life, Bajaj Allianz aims to position itself as offering comprehensive insurance solutions. Both companies prepare advertising to achieve communication objectives and effectively place their image in customers' minds.
Proposal writing sales startup tutorial tips and advice (from a sales dude p...Harpal Kochar
The document provides tips and advice for presenting a winning value proposition in a proposal. It discusses the importance of demonstrating value, especially when trying to displace an incumbent vendor or when proposed changes involve significant risks, costs, or changes to existing processes. It emphasizes quantifying value using measurable outcomes, presenting value propositions graphically, and linking value to the client's priorities. Differentiators should be based on unique aspects of the solution or ways of working rather than features alone. The value proposition formula compares the value and costs of the proposed solution to alternatives. Overall, the document provides strategic advice for crafting a compelling value proposition that will appeal to the client's self-interest.
This document discusses key drivers of change that will shape the global context and hotel industry over the next decade. It identifies shifts in economic power from West to East, with the rise of Asian economies and middle classes. Public debt levels across developed economies are high and economic uncertainty may continue. Technology and connectivity will further transform the industry and customer expectations. The needs and behaviors of tomorrow's travelers will be more diverse. Hotels will need to prepare for various scenarios and evolve their business models, strategies, and operations to meet the demands of an uncertain future.
A COMPARISON BETWEEN UJJIVAN AND SPANDANA- MICROFINANCEGowri Balah
Ujjivan and Spandana are microfinance institutions that provide financial services targeting low-income populations. Ujjivan has 552 branches across 24 states, while Spandana has 694 branches across 15 states. The key differences are that Ujjivan collects a 10% security deposit for loans over 15,000 INR while Spandana does not require any security deposit. Ujjivan also has larger group sizes of 20-60 members compared to Spandana's group sizes of 5-10 members. Both institutions have experienced significant year-over-year growth in income, costs, profits and other financial metrics between 2018-2019.
Bancassurance allows banks to sell insurance products through their distribution channels, forming partnerships between banks and insurers. This provides immediate access to new markets and increased penetration for insurers. Banks benefit through additional income from commissions and enhanced customer satisfaction from offering diverse services. Customers benefit from lower prices, better quality products, and convenient purchasing through their banks. Regulations in India require separate governance of banking and insurance, but allow banks to partner with insurers as agents.
The future of customer service - the rise of the social customerIt's Open
The document discusses the rise of social media and its impact on customer service. It notes that customer expectations have increased as people are adopting social media faster than companies are adapting. It provides a 10 step framework for organizations to prepare for the social future of customer service, including conducting an audit, using a conversation prism to understand customer interactions, developing multi-channel strategies, training employees, integrating customer service with other business units, selecting and implementing CRM software, and defining metrics to measure success. The conclusion states that successful companies will place social customers at the center of operations, which can reduce costs and increase customer loyalty.
The document discusses the trend of "omni-colleagues," where companies are re-integrating human employees into digital interfaces and customer experiences. It notes that while companies had been moving towards more automated and robotic customer service, replacing human interactions was not working. Specifically:
- Companies are emphasizing their employees as "colleagues" rather than "staff" to build camaraderie between employees and customers. Some services now rate and review individual employees.
- Companies are providing digital tools to employees but also training them in social skills to have more meaningful interactions with customers.
- Moving forward, companies will look to equip employees to take meaningful actions for users through digital tools, making employees "omni-
For more classes visit
www.snaptutorial.com
1. In low-income countries, a higher percentage of entrepreneurs are considered
2. A(n) _____ is a formal document that describes a business concept and outlines the core business
A study on bancassurance final year projAmol Dhumal
The document provides an introduction to the concept of bancassurance. It discusses how bancassurance originated in France in the 1980s to describe the sale of insurance products through banks. Bancassurance allows banks to sell insurance policies and earn commission income. It has since spread to other parts of the world and taken different forms depending on the country. In India, bancassurance is still a new concept that began in 2000 and is seen as an opportunity for both banks and insurance companies to expand their customer bases and distribution channels.
The document discusses transmedia storytelling as a way for brands to generate interest in their products and services. It defines transmedia storytelling as stories that unfold across multiple media platforms with each platform making a distinctive contribution. The document then provides examples of brands like Lego that have successfully used transmedia storytelling through developing characters and narratives that engage consumers across different media. It also outlines some of the challenges of using transmedia storytelling for brands, such as the perceived costs and complexity of execution, before concluding with recommendations around focusing on developing franchises rather than one-off campaigns and prioritizing the user experience.
Summer internship taining project report kotak life insuranceShubham Aggarwal
its a full project report on kotak mahindra life insurance based on summer internship. it covers the survey of 50 people that what was their perception regarding kotak and other insurance provider by filling up a questionnaire.
This document provides information about Ankita Garg's summer training project conducted at HDFC Life Insurance. It includes a declaration by Ankita, acknowledgements, table of contents, lists of tables and figures, and an executive summary. The project report was submitted in partial fulfillment of Ankita's MBA degree and aimed to study the products of HDFC Life under the supervision of her professor and HDFC Life employees.
The bank insurance model (BIM), also sometimes known as bancassurance or allfinanz, is the partnership or relationship between a bank and an insurance company, or a single integrated organisation, whereby the insurance company uses the bank sales channel in order to sell insurance products, an arrangement in which a bank and an insurance company form a partnership so that the insurance company can sell its products to the bank's client base.
Allianz Indonesia - 11th MR Microinsurance Conference - Upselling on Credit L...Yoga Prasetyo
Allianz Indonesia has piloted an upselling program with microfinance partners to offer voluntary insurance products like personal accident and hospital cash plans to existing credit life customers. A study found that 45% of credit life customers were unaware of their insurance coverage. The pilot program saw a 5% conversion rate on average across 4 partners reaching over 12,000 customers. Successful partners integrated insurance explanations and sales into their standard operating procedures, while unsuccessful partners lacked clear rules and staff awareness. Moving forward, Allianz plans to scale up the approach, improve renewals, conduct awareness campaigns tied to sales, and develop more attractive product offerings.
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
This document contains a SWOT analysis of Punjab National Bank's housing finance division. It identifies strengths such as its established brand name and specialized software. Weaknesses include high interest rates compared to competitors and a lack of marketing. Opportunities exist in offering special rates and expanding product lines. Threats include intense competition and slower processing times. The document also analyzes economic factors that will influence the life insurance industry in 2014, such as inflation, the transition to an open architecture distribution model, and acceptance of new product regulations.
The document discusses a panel discussion on partnering for success in a digital world. The agenda includes opening remarks, opportunities in the industry from KPMG, insurer perspectives from AIA, and a panel discussion. There will also be updates from The Digital Insurer and a wrap up. The document provides information on the panellists and how to participate in the discussion through questions in the Q&A or comments in the chat. It also includes polls to gauge participants' views on key topics.
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Assignment 2 – Written Communication
Chet L. Walker
Strayer University
Professor Deborah Busby
COM 510 – Business Communications
2 December 2019
FROM: Insurance Policy Desk
TO: All Insurance Stakeholders
DATE: 2 December 2019
SUBJECT: Comprehensive Insurance Policy on Goods on Consignment
A Comprehensive Insurance Policy for Goods that are on Consignment
Introducing this premium policy insurance coverage will be a great opportunity for our esteemed customers and company as well. Remember, it is for the first time that our company is introducing a premium policy coverage on goods under transit. The policy is comprehensively written to address the need. After thorough research on policy formulating, I am glad to inform you that all the gaps were outlined and then policy was formulated to bridge these gaps at the same time generate profit to the company. The insurance policy desk is comprised of a team of experts in writing policies. I am so glad to be part of the team and so should you as well.
Taking this opportunity to introduce this premiere coverage amid the insurance crisis faced by many insurance companies. This moment will be most suitable for an introduction. I hereby call every stakeholder to be part of the team to launch the coverage that will solve many challenges and restore smiles into the faces of our clients.
The policy is cost effective sensitive and realist. Formulated in a manner to safeguard the client’s money and that of the company too. After the findings on the research survey, the panel of insurance policy desk sat and took every finding about the policy into consideration as they formulated this coverage, which means that the policy considers the many factors that makeup insurance.
Most of the governmental organization which normally source products outside the borders of the country find it safe using insurance firms from within its nation. Have it with use now will create an avenue for transacting business with the governmental organization. Though there should be a massive creation of awareness just after policy introduction and hence the need to do with haste so as to prevent further delays.
Our clients, on the other hand, have always not benefited effectively from the many policies issued by many insurance companies. This premium policy will then mark the end of lamentations. Based on experience and prior understanding of our clients, this is an advanced improvement in this modern policy that focuses not only on making sales but also addressing and least on clients but surprisingly the policy has attained both at the same time enabling us to kill two birds with a similar stone.
Online marketers recently complained about delays in good deliveries. This issue is well captured by the policy. Though there is a need to partner with other swift modes of transporting good especially light agent ones. It captured in the plan ...
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Omega Insurance Brokers was established in 2003 in Dubai to provide competitive insurance services. It has grown to over 100 employees and 4000 clients. The intern was assigned to assist the accounting department by calculating sales commissions, making payments to insurance companies, and reconciling bank statements. These tasks will help keep the accounting work up to date and ensure payments are accurate.
Most emerging market consumers face insurable risks like loss of income, agricultural risks, sickness, and property damage, yet many do not use insurance as a coping mechanism due to lack of access and trust in traditional insurance products. Inclusivity Solutions is an African insurtech company that aims to close this protection gap by developing innovative digital and embedded insurance solutions that make insurance more accessible, affordable, and relevant for emerging market consumers. Their platform allows partners to offer simple and appropriately priced insurance products directly to consumers through digital channels integrated within the partners' existing services and ecosystems. Inclusivity Solutions has already helped over 1 million African customers obtain insurance coverage embedded in services like mobile payments, remittances, and loans.
The presentation addresses the following questions: Should an MFI offer microinsurance? If so, through what institutional structure? If they partner with an insurance company, how to manage that relationship effectively? What products should the MFI offer?
This document discusses consumer lending in Africa. It begins by defining consumer lending and distinguishing it from commercial lending. It then outlines different types of consumer lending like peer-to-peer lending and crowd funding. The document primarily focuses on describing three companies involved in consumer lending in Africa: Select Africa, ALIOS Finance, and RCS Group. For each, it provides details on their target markets, business models, and the types of consumer loans offered. Finally, it discusses some challenges with consumer lending in Africa, such as job insecurity, lack of affordability assessments, and reckless lending practices.
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1. Escaping the Credit Life Trap
Learning diary on an upselling pilot project in Indonesia
By Yoga Prasetyo
Head of Emerging Consumers, Allianz Life Indonesia
April 2015
Photo 1
A focus group discussion with a group of a rural bank’s customers in Sukabumi, West Java as part of the
2013 pilot partner selection process
All monetary values in this study are in US-dollar, unless otherwise stated.
2. 2
Photo 2
A staff of BPR BDAS rural bank in Surabaya explains the benefits of a piloted Personal Accident tick-box
product to a salted-fish and banana seller in a traditional market in Surabaya, East Java.
Compared to her $125 turnover per day, she says that the $2 yearly premium is attractively affordable,
although she is not sure if she really needs such insurance.
3. 3
I. Executive Summary
From November 2013 to December 2014, Allianz Indonesia ran a small “customer conversion” project
with four small microfinance institutions. The goal of the project was to prove that it is possible to sell
additional voluntary insurance products on top of mandatory credit life insurance, to the tune of a 5
percent conversion rate target.
At the time, Allianz had already built a sizeable customer base of 2.7 million customers through its 76
microfinance distribution partners. The question was how to better capitalize on this large customer
outreach and how to provide more value-adding protection to customers at the same time.
By February 2014, Allianz and its pilot partners started offering three types of simple voluntary
insurance products to the partner’s loan customers, all of whom already had mandatory credit life
coverage from Allianz. Allianz Indonesia describes their chosen sales method as a tick-box approach,
which was meant to make adding voluntary products to your loan as easy as ticking a box on your loan
application form. This method also aimed to minimize the additional workload for the distribution
partners and their staff.
For regulatory reasons, such fully integrated tick-box approach could not be implemented. Still, two of
the four pilot partners managed to achieve conversion rates of 15.7 percent and 25.3 percent, while
upselling at the other two (and larger) partners failed to gain traction. There, conversion hovered
around 2 percent, bringing the overall conversion ratio down to exactly the original 5 percent target.
The key reasons for the difference in performance was that – contrary to the other two partners - the
two successful ones shared a very similar vision with Allianz i.e. enhancing their value proposition for
the customers, while earning commissions remained a secondary factor. Such partners proved to be
open to making a real effort along with Allianz, in order to engineer processes and sales talk in a way
that reduces additional workload and is adaptable to the context of the partner and its customers.
Among the three offered products (fire, personal accident and hospital cash), personal accident by far
proved to be the most popular choice of customers. Possibly because it was the simplest of all products,
carrying a high sum insured with a relatively small premium of just $2 per year. Yet, for time reasons and
contrary to best practice, Allianz Indonesia did not fully tailor-make the products to the customer needs
but only slightly adapted existing conventional product offers.
A very small “pilot-in-pilot” on telemarketing, where a very small sample of tick-box customers were
approached via phone for further upselling, pointed at the immense potential that telemarketing can
have in reaching the largely untapped low-income market.
The customer conversion pilot of Allianz Indonesia can be deemed an encouraging success. It clearly
indicates that customer conversion can work, if conditions are right and partners are aligned. The
upcoming challenges are (a) scaling up the approach with larger partners and (b) arranging for efficient
renewals.
Allianz Indonesia believes that the demonstrated conversion ratios, even at the 25 percent level seen
with the best performing partner, are still below the maximum saturation level. With more adequate
products, a focus on partners that meet the “partner success criteria”, and conducive regulations (for a
fully integrated tick-box sales approach), conversion rates could be significantly higher.
4. 4
II. Project Background
Credit Life is a good starting product for any microinsurance initiative because everyone involved can
draw some benefits from it. First of all, the microfinance institution (MFI) which takes out a group credit
life policy to cover the death of its debtors improves its internal risk management, especially in the case
of covariant risks that may lead to mass defaults such as natural disasters or epidemics. Secondly, the
debtor can enjoy peace of mind that in case of her untimely death, her family would not be burdened
with debt repayment.. For this reason, microcredit life – although being mandatory in most cases –
mostly does not face objections from the customer’s side. Lastly, microcredit life makes a good entry
product into the low income market, for the insurance company. The product is relatively easy to bring
to scale at low operational costs, because the automatic group cover replaces a costly customer-to-
customer sales approach. Therefore, credit life is more sophisticated and high-touch microinsurance
products which is likely to break even faster compared to other products..
However, credit life is not without criticism. One clear shortcoming is the lack of awareness of coverage
among a significant portion of insured clients. This is a result of the nature of credit life as a compulsory
add-on to the much more salient microloans. The loan is the key objective of customers. Therefore, MFI
staff often does not bother much to properly explain the insurance component of the loan. And even if
they do, customers may as well soon forget about this ‘small-print detail’ of their loan contracts.
In 2013, a survey on behalf of Allianz1
revealed that as many as 45 percent of people insured under
Allianz Indonesia’s flagship “Payung Keluarga“ (= Family Umbrella) microcredit life product were
unaware of their insurance cover. What is more, only 20 percent could correctly point at Allianz as their
insurer. The other 80 percent were either unaware of their coverage or thought the insurance was
provided by someone else, e.g. their own microlending institution on self-insurance basis.
Thus, Credit Life is a good product to quickly penetrate the low-income market at scale, but due to its
piggy-bagged automatic nature it is less effective in actually creating insurance and brand awareness.
With this realization in mind, Allianz Indonesia started a pilot project on upselling in November 2013.
The project targeted existing credit life customers and tried to motivate them to add voluntary top-up
coverage to their mandatory base cover. The project was meant to show that how to bring Allianz’ long-
term “grow with customer” strategy to life. By this strategy, Allianz seeks to win low-income customers
early on, preferably as their first ever insurer, and build a strong brand loyalty that the company can
capitalize on once customers have grown richer. In short, the project aimed to escape the comfortable
credit life trap and take microinsurance distribution to the next level.
At project start, the “Payung Keluarga“ portfolio looked as follows:
Table 1
Active distribution partners, e.g. MFIs 76
Active insured (i.e. no. of insured loans) 2.7 million
Average new insured per month 220,000
Average single premium per insured $0.50
Average Gross Written Premium per month $110,000
Data as per 31 December 2013
1
Microinsurance Customer And Non-customer Awareness Survey. Allianz SE. 2013.
5. 5
In order to limit risks in case of project failure and to increase project agility, Allianz Indonesia decided to
start with a limited number of its 76 distribution partners. The envisaged six distribution partners were
small in scale; none having more than 10,000 borrowers (at the time, the largest distribution partner
had over one million borrowers insured). The company reckoned that small partners offered more
flexibility on project implementation and on-the-fly project adaptation based on lessons learned.
Eventually, the following four distribution partners agreed to launch the pilot project with Allianz:
Table 2
BPR2
BDAS
Surabaya
BPR BDAL
Bekasi
KKBS
Cooperative
Jakarta
KAKR
Cooperative
Tangerang
Established 2012 2003 1985 2009
Loan customers reachable
for pilot3
379 1,063 145 7,681
Disbursed loan volume to
reachable customers
$115,000 $1,700,000 $1,100,000 $5,200,000
Average loan size of
reachable customers
$300 $2,500 $8,800 $370
Data as per 31 December 2013
Voluntary sales started in February 2014 and the pilot was scheduled to run until December 2014. Based
on the pilot results, Allianz and its pilot partners were to decide whether to scale up further the
upselling efforts (additional customer groups and products), maintain the status quo (business as usual)
or stop the upselling efforts altogether.
III. The Voluntary Add-on Products
Table 3
Payung
Perlindunganku
Payung
Rumahku
Payung
Kesehatanku
Product type Personal Accident Fire, with personal accident
benefit
Hospital Cash
Coverage
period
1 year or equal to loan
tenor
1 year or equal to loan
tenor
1 year or equal to loan tenor
Cover and
benefits
Sum insured of $2,000 (IDR
25mn) for accidental death.
Proportional payout for
accidental total permanent
disability, depending on
degree of disability.
Sum insured of $160 (IDR
2mn) if a fire renders the
home uninhabitable and for
accidental death
$8 (IDR 100,000) per day of
hospitalization for (max. 180
days/year) and 50% cost
reimbursement for surgery,
up to a max. reimbursement
of $80 (IDR 1mn)
Premium $2 (IDR 25,000) per year $1.60 (IDR 20,000) per year $12 (IDR 150,000) per year
Commission 30% 30% 30%
2
BPR = Bank Perkreditan Rakyat (people’s credit bank). A specific legal form for secondary banks in Indonesia,
often located in rural areas and smaller in size and product range than fully fledged commercial banks
3
At KAKR, only loans above USD 250 are registered with Payung Keluarga. The rest are self-insured by the
cooperative.
6. 6
These three add-on products share the following characteristics:
Voluntary
Simple and easy to explain
Affordable premiums
Processes that can be seamlessly integrated into existing distribution models and operations
In order to tie the sales of the voluntary add-on projects as closely as possible to the distribution of
loans and credit life insurance, the original idea was to include the add-on offers directly on the loan
application forms of the MFIs. The customers would only have to “tick the box” on the form, if they
wanted to add any voluntary coverage to their loan and credit life cover. The extra premiums would be
deducted from the loan and the coverage duration would be exactly as long as the loan.
Due to this “tick the box” approach, which is similar to opting for extra travel insurance when buying
online flight tickets, the entire project and its products became known as the “tick box” pilot and the
“tick box” products, even though the original idea could not be fully implemented (see below).
The sales talk that the MFI loan officers were meant to adopt when processing new loan applications
was roughly as follows:
“Dear customer, as a loan customer of our company you are already covered by Payung
Keluarga insurance from Allianz. This is a credit life insurance which is mandatory for every
borrower as a part of the terms and conditions of the loan contract. The benefits of this
insurance are as follows …”
“Payung Keluarga insurance only covers your outstanding loan balance in case of your untimely
death or (with some MFIs only) that of your husband.”
“As our customer, if you now want to extend your insurance coverage with just a little additional
premium, please tick the corresponding box on the provided enrolment form and make sure you
duly sign it.”
“The benefits of each of these voluntary extra products are as follows…“
IV. Project Steps
1. Contact the distribution partners to explain the “tick box“ idea and the underlying “grow with
the customer“ vision
2. Analyse product needs and decide on products
3. Clarify operational and legal aspects, including renewal procedures
4. Sign a memorandum of understanding with the distribution partners on-board
5. Conduct joint field visits to customers with the staff of the distribution partner, to test how to
best explain and sell the products
6. Train the staff of the distribution partner, including on-site handholding for the initial sales
7. Monitor sales and organize sales contests as needed
8. Seek feedback from customers, field staff and partner management
7. 7
V. Performance Indicators and Drivers
Without any previous experience in microinsurance upselling, the project management set the
conversion target for the pilot project at a conservative 5percent. Table 4 shows that this target was
exactly met as an actual 5 percent conversion rate as achieved by December 2014. For the two more
successful partners, BPR BDAS and KKBS cooperative, conversion rates were as high as 15.7 percent and
25.3 percent respectively.
Table 4
Tick-box pilot
performance indicators
BPR BDAS
Surabaya
BPR BDAL
Bekasi
KKBS
Cooperative
Jakarta
KAKR
Cooperative
Tangerang
Total
Reachable loan customers
(Dec 2013)
(a)
379 1,063 145 7,681 9,268
Reachable loan customers
(Dec 2014)
(b)
967 1,424 839 9.246
4
12,476
Voluntary tick-box sales (c) 152 23 212 231 618
Conversion ratio (c/d) 15.7% 1.6% 25.3% 2.5% 5.0%
Data as per 31 December 2014
The Allianz project management team attributes the significant outperformance of BPR BDAS and KKBS
Cooperative to the following success factors:
- From the very beginning, the management of BDAS and KKBS showed a high trust level in
Allianz’ capabilities regarding fast service and quick claim payment;
- Allianz could convince both institutions that the additional workload created by the pilot would
not be significant and would not disrupt the daily work routine of their staff. The other two
partners kept strong reservations on this point;
- Both institutions made the insurance sales talk a clear part of their own Standard Operating
Procedures (SOP). Each front line staff was clearly instructed to explain the tick-box offers to
their customers. Due to their workload concerns, the other two institutions took a less stringent
approach
- Both institutions clearly expressed that commission income was not their primary driver. They
were focusing more on enhancing the value proposition to their clients.
- Overall, BDAS and KKBS shared a similar vision with Allianz, built on mutual trust.
Therefore, it is not surprising that in December 2014, BPR BDAS and KKBS Cooperative decided to
continue and even scale up their tick-box sales beyond the pilot project end. Although the products
arestill open for sale at BPR BDAL and KAKR Cooperative, these activities are no longer actively
monitored and supported by Allianz and sales are expected to dwindle further.
For 2015, the next step for Allianz Indonesia is to replicate the success story of BPR BDAS and KKBS
Cooperative with larger partners. The company has already approached some of these institutions and
received positive initial feedback.
4
At KAKR, only loans above $250 are registered with Payung Keluarga. The rest are self-insured by the
cooperative.
8. 8
V. Learning Diary
The following learning diary provides a more in-depth view of the step-by-step learning process that
Allianz Indonesia underwent during the tick-box pilot.
November 2013:
We have just started the partner selection process for our pilot project. We are in discussions with
six smaller distribution partners. One of them is willing to integrate the “tick-box” application
directly into the loan application form. This would allow us to test the “full tick-box” approach as
initially intended. Then, customers would only need to fill one single form for their loan and for their
voluntary add-on insurance. The agreement to buy add-on insurance would just be a simple tick in
the right box. However, the distribution partner shortly backtracked because of worries that such a
sales approach would not be in line with current regulations, which are not very clear on how MFIs
are allowed to promote and sell insurance.
Illustration 1 shows an example of how a fully integrated tick-box application could look like:
Illustration 1
9. 9
We have prepared a draft memorandum of understanding which contains the following crucial
clause: “The distribution partner allows Allianz to approach the customer for later direct upselling,
provided that the customer herself has given her informed consent to this.“
From the six prospective partners, eventually only four have agreed to cooperate for our tick-box
pilot project, but none of them agreed to use a fully integrated “tick-box“ enrolment form (as in
Illustration 1). All four have concerns that such a tight integration with their loan business may be
considered objectionable by the regulator, depending on how strictly the regulator interprets
current regulations which stipulate that MFIs cannot run their own insurance business.5
This is why
we have to create separate enrolment forms for all partners. A sample of such a “stand alone”
enrolment form is given in Illustration 2. Importantly, and in order to comply with Indonesian
customer protection requirements, the form also contains a short customer declaration that Allianz
may approach her later for further product offers.
Illustration 2
December 2013
Logistics for the pilot project have been fully put into place, including (a) all SOPs, (b) MFI staff
training materials, and (c) an overview brochure on all three voluntary add-on offers (see Illustration
3). This sales tool is meant to help the MFIs’ front line staff to quickly explain the product
proposition.
5
There are two regulations that distribution partners frequently refer to in this context: Law No. 1 of 2013,
Paragraph 14 which states that microfinance institutions are prohibited from undertaking any other
activities than supporting businesses and the public through microloans, savings and business
development consultancy services. Nothing is said about insurance. This provision is the primary point of
concern for cooperatives. BPRs also tend to refer to Bank Indonesia’s Circular Letter No. 12/35 of 2010
on Bancassurance, which only mentions fully-fledged commercial banks in the context of Bancassurance
but does not say a word on BPRs.
10. 10
Illustration 3
We also have finished a small IT upgrade that enables our microinsurance administration system
to accommodate the tick-box products. The necessary IT efforts were relatively small because
the system was already pre-designed to accommodate simple upselling processes. Also the
Excel-based Bordereau (spreadsheet) reports that our partners used for submitting their
monthly production data to us needed only small modifications. Partners appreciate that the
additional reporting effort is minimal and that we continue to using just one single reporting
template.
Product brochure that shows all three tick-box offerings
11. 11
January 2014
Here is a first-hand account of the kick-off and subsequent activities:
Jakarta, 6 January 2014
What happened today?
We have given on-site support to staff of KKBS Cooperative in Jakarta to help them
explain the new tick-box products when cooperative members came to the counter
at the cooperative’s head office.
At the beginning of the day, w already explained the commission scheme and a
special sales contest to them.t However, their reaction was not exactly what we
had expected. They did not seem to be very enthusiastic about the new potential
income source. Some even looked completely absent. Nonetheless, they were quite
positive about the products themselves and about having a new activity entering
their daily office routine.
For some time, we kept observing how several customers came to the counters.
When finally one female customer approached a female credit administration staff
to apply for a new loan, we took the opportunity to assist the staff in explaining
the new insurance products.
The conversation with this customer lasted for only three minutes. Then, she
emphatically said: “I am not interested” and left the office.
After that, there were no more customers applying for credits, so we did not get
any further customer engagement opportunity that day.
What did we learn today:
The sales approach that we tried today is similar to the conventional in-branch
bancassurance selling where the insurance representative directly talks to the
bank customer in the bank’s branch. In that situation, low-income customers like
the one we met today, seem to feel uncomfortable because a stranger is trying to
sell them something; someone who does not belong to the well-known and trusted
cooperative staff.
Even when the staff of the cooperative tried to de-escalate the situation, she was
not successful. The emotional gap between us and the customer was too wide.
This situation was due to being at the cooperatives head office, at the moment of
loan application. When we later accompanied some cooperative staff to the field
during visits to customers’ homes for loan collection, the situation was completely
different. Then, most of the visited customers where open to listen to us and to
consider purchasing insurance.
12. 12
February 2014
The design of the insurance membership certificates for the three tick-box products has finally
been completed. Going by the lengthy provisions and technical insurance provisions that they
contain, they are clearly not yet ideally adapted to the needs of the low-income market.
However, it would have taken too much time and alignment efforts to produce shorter versions
written in simple common language. Therefore, project management decided to go ahead with
the conventional first version, and to simplify it at a later stage.
Jakarta, 29 January 2014
What happened today?
Today, we had calls with our four pilot distribution partners to discuss the
commission scheme. All products carry a standard commission of 30%. The
question that we haven’t really solved so far is how to best distribute it among the
distribution companies and their back office and front office staff.
All four partners do NOT wish that the commission is directly transferred from
Allianz to their staff. The reasons differ slightly, depending on institution type:
o The two BPR partners declare that there is no clear regulation from the
financial supervisory authority (OJK) concerning “bancassurance for BPRs“.
Therefore, they prefer to play safe and not have any commission directly
channeled to individual members of BPR staff. This way, the BPR
management can account for this new fee based income properly in their
corporate books.
o The two cooperatives are not worried about their respective regulation
[which is different from BPR regulation]. Yet, they still voted against direct
front liner incentives, in order to safeguard the esprit de corps of their
staff. Giving financial incentives to front line staff while back office staff
sees none of the money may create discord. Therefore, they rather prefer
to devise their own balanced distribution mechanism.
Moreover, all four institutions prefer that their staff stays focused on their key
tasks and not get too distracted by the prospect of insurance commissions. They
would like to avoid a situation where the staff may feel like being “the servant to
two masters”.
13. 13
Illustration 4
Jakarta, 13 February 2014
What happened today?
BPR BDAL
Today, the first ever real tick-box enrollment happened at BPR BDAL. It was for our
Personal Accident product “Payung PerlindunganKu”. The actual enrollment form
shown in Illustration 4. There seem to be two reasons for this particular sales
transaction: (1) the affordable premium of $2 (IDR 25,000) per year and (2) the
closeness of the BPR’s staff to the customer. Interestingly, the actual interest and
need for insurance was not the main driver. The pioneer customer has been quoted
to have said: “I am fine with paying 25,000 rupiah for a product that is offered to
me by the people that so far have been very helpful with my loan applications and
collection of the installment payments.” So, it is almost like a complementary
purchase.
KKBS Cooperative
We also visited KKBS today to support and monitor the pilot progress. We were
able to collect six new applications ready to be processed.
KAKR Cooperative
The on-site “handholding” support that our team members have given to KAKR
field staff when visiting customers has not yet lead to any tangible results. So far,
there are zero tick-box sales at KAKR.
14. 14
Photo 3
Allianz Indonesia staff Tri Marwanti assists front liners of KAKR cooperative
in Tangerang to explain the voluntary tick-box products to a group of cooperative members
Tangerang, 17 February 2014
What happened today?
Once again, we did on-site “handholding” to support the KAKR staff.
At KAKR, we can see what we also noted with the other pilot partners: From the
three add-on products, apparently only the Personal Accident product “Payung
PerlindunganKu” really develops genuine sales appeal. This is partly due to the
affordable premium of $2 per year, which compares favorably to the Hospital Cash
Offer, which sells at $12. It is also due to the attractively high sum insured of
$2,000, which is much higher than the $160 that the slightly cheaper Fire
insurance product offers. Lastly, the product is the easiest one to explain as it has
only one simple coverage type: accidental death. Even the Fire product has more
coverage types: Fire and a small personal accident component on top.
At KAKR, we mostly meet up with the women who have formed credit groups that
jointly borrow from KAKR. Many of them are interested in the Personal Accident
product, but they still don’t want to enroll on the spot, despite the affordable $2
premium. They want to consult with their husbands or grown-up children first.
Some of the women actually want to enroll right away, but some of those cannot
read and write so they ask for help in filling the enrollment forms. However, they
clear understand the product proposition and are able to sign themselves.
We also ask for the customer’s mobile phone number in the enrolment form,
especially with future upselling via telemarketing in mind. However, the larger part
of the women do not have their own mobile phones. We, therefore, recommend to
provide the mobile number of their spouse or children because typically at least
one family member owns a mobile phone.
Some of the women ask for insurance for their spouses and children. We explain
that the tix-box insurance is available for their spouses, but not yet for children.
15. 15
May 2014
Until now, we have sold 152 tick-box insurances, out of the approximately 8,800 reachable
credit life customers of our 4 distribution partners. This means that our conversion ratio is
currently standing at 1.7 percent. With just 7 months to go until the end of the pilot, this is still
significantly below our 5 percent target. Fortunately, with every voluntary insurance sold, the
conversion ratio increases, as the total number of reachable customers remains relatively stable.
This month, we conducted a quick telemarketing trial on the collected mobile phone numbers.
The purpose of this trial is to test how the individuals from our target market who have already
bought their first voluntary insurance product react to telemarketing efforts.
Unfortunately, out of the 152 tick-box customers, only 33 actually put down their mobile phone
numbers, which severely limits our sample size. Out of these 33 customers, we managed to
reach 6 on the telemarketing pilot day. What we offered via the phone was a simple health
insurance product that we “hijacked” from our conventional telemarketing channel for testing
purposes. To buy this product a credit card is needed. We already know that virtually none of
our customers have a credit card. So we did not expect any sales. However, the customers
showed interest in the product and allowed us to talk to them six minutes on average. Some
were disappointed that they could not buy the product since they do not have a credit card.
The telemarketing trial can still be seen as a success. As a quick test, it points at the potential of
telemarketing in the untapped low-income market. Telemarketing could be the third step after
mandatory credit life and the voluntary tick-box add-ons. However, before launching this at a
larger scale, a more efficient collection method (like mobile money) is needed.
July 2014
Now, we have been effectively selling tick-box insurance for six months but we are still far away
from satisfactory results. We suppose that one of the challenges in achieving higher conversion
rates is the inability or reluctance of the partners’ front line staff to properly explain the
insurance offerings as soon as we turn our backs and go home. We, therefore, develop a special
game that explains the concept of insurance in a fun way and by using analogies to well-known
community risk management practices that help to easy understanding. A video documentation
of this insurance game can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ItgUsiyZ-E.
However, even the insurance game does not drive sales in a significant way. The partners’ front
line staff informed us that it takes 15 to 20 minutes to properly play the game. They seldom
have that much spare time during their fast-paced customer visits. Therefore, the staff usually
plays the game too quickly, or do not play at all, especially when we do not remind them of it.
At the end of the month, we visited all four distribution partners for a stocktaking of what we
have learned so far in the first six months of the pilot, and to see if and how our sales and
education approach needs be changed for better results.
KAKR cooperative and BPR DBAL, the two most underperforming partners, continue to be
concerned about the possible additional workload for their front line staff. Therefore, they
prefer to stick to their current highly optional sales approach.
With BPR BDAS, we agreed to change their sales approach from the previous unsupervised sales
talk made by the field staff to a more controllable and stringent procedure carried out by the
credit administration staff at the branches. At BDAS, every customer has to collect a credit check
at the branch and cash it at a commercial bank to receive the loan amount. The SOP of BDAS
have, therefore, been updated so that every time a customer collects a credit check, the
administration staff also has to explain the insurance offer and give the customer an enrolment
form. Only if the customer really rejects the insurance, the application is not processed further.
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In contrast, KKBS Cooperative decided to stick to its field staff based approach. The
management reemphasized to their field staff that they are expected to deliver the insurance
offer whenever they meet with a customer.
August 2014
The readjustment efforts we made in July, started showing positive effects. Over time, we
observed that KKBS field staff and the BDAS branch staff became more experienced in offering
insurance. As the amount of support queries to Allianz keeps decreasing, ee can say that the
insurance sales talk is becoming one of their daily work habits. This greatly helps to stabilize
sales.
September 2014
Bekasi, 8 September 2014
What happened today?
A member of the project team visited BPR BDAL
Their field staff reported that many customers cut them short as soon as they
started talking about insurance. These customers said that they have had
negative experience with insurance or have heard negative things about it,
especially that the insurance agentsare difficult to reach and that claims are
not paid.
Most of the bank’s customers are market traders. In one of the markets, one
influential trader is an insurance agent for another insurance company. In this
market, it makes little sense to start any sales talk.
Another challenge the BDAL staff reported is that their time is too limited to
properly explain the Allianz insurance offer in a consistent way. They are
pushed by tight deadlines and need to finish their visits as soon as possible.
However, there are also a couple of positive drivers why customers like to
listen to the insurance explanation:
a. The customers already know and trust the field staff
b. The staff is able to adapt the insurance talk into the everyday
language and living context of the customers
c. Some customers already know quite a bit about insurance
d. The customers are attracted by the affordable premiums
The most frequently asked questions by the customers are:
- “How to file a claim?”
- “What kind of insurance is this?”
- “Who is the insurer?”
What do customers know about Allianz?
- Most of them recognize Allianz from the
Allianz Arena, the stadium of Bayern Munich,
because they have seen it on TV. Allianz Arena
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December 2014
The positive trend with BDAS and KKBS has continued over the last months, since July and
August. While, there is little progress with the other two partners.
At the end of pilot, BPR BDAS and KKBS Cooperative agreed to convert the pilot into a routine
business activity and even agree to reinforce their efforts.
For BPR BDAL and KAKR, we left the products open for sale but we will not offer any special
sales support anymore. We don’t expect much sales coming from these two partners in the
future.
Photo 4
Allianz project leader Yoga Prasetyo meets a women’s’ credit group
to learn their view on the tick-box insurance offers
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Lessons learned
1. Customer conversion works
The pilot has achieved its five percent conversion rate target. Two partners even achieved 15 percent
and higher. With this, the pilot was successfully concluded, proving that upselling can work.
Customer conversion works particularly well with partners that have a similar vision as Allianz, i.e. of
improving the overall value proposition to customers, with commission earnings only as a secondary
factor. Such partners are open to making a real effort together with Allianz to engineer processes and
sales talk in a way that reduces additional workload and is adapted to the context of the partner, its staff
and its customers.
Telling from the very small telemarketing trial, there is a good reason to believe that this second
“ignition stage” of a multi-phased customer conversion strategy can be successful.
2. Small size of pilot partners proved helpful
We found that our original assumption proved right that it would be easier to start a tick-box pilot with
smaller partners, rather than with larger microfinance institutions. With smaller distribution partners,
decision making processes and flexible operational adjustments based on a “learning by doing” basis
were lean and easy. As we have started to approach larger partners for scale-up, the established tick-
box track record will help in convincing them. Still, decision making processes at large partners clearly
take much longer due to their size, their more elaborate governance and many other parallel projects.
And, we haven’t even gone into actual large scale implementation with them yet.
We also found that a shared vision between distribution partner and Allianz is a decisive success factor.
Such a shared vision again proved easier to build with smaller partners rather than with the “big guys”,
even though the resulting business opportunity was also much smaller.
In a nutshell, to get a proof of success for the concepts like Allianz Indonesia’s tick-box project, working
with smaller, more flexible partners makes more sense than approaching large-scale partners from the
beginning. Larger partners are easier to convince and manage once a (small) proof of success has
already been established.
3. Personal Accident proved to be the most popular of the three tick-box offerings
Designing the ideal product for the low-income target market is not easy because several factors need
to be taken into consideration:
Customer perspective:
o Responsive to the perceived risks
o Easy to understand
o Easy to enrol
o Affordable premium
o Convenient collection mechanism
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Business partner perspective:
o Minimal additional staff workload
o Easy and quick to explain
o Attractive incentive scheme
Insurer perspective:
o Limited product and system development efforts
o Low operational costs
o Long-term financial sustainability
The three tick-box products were certainly far away from meeting all of the above criteria. They were
more or less scaled-down versions of existing conventional products that were already offered through
other distribution channels. The reason for taking this “quick and dirty” road was again time
considerations. The time needed for developing new microinsurance products from scratch and
registering them with the regulator would have seriously delayed the tight project timeframe. After all,
some minor adaptations were made to take into account customer and distribution partner needs: Next
to lowering premiums to more affordable levels (leading to lower sums insured), the tenor of the tick-
box products was made flexible to be able to follow the tenor of the underlying loan. In conventional
business, the products were strictly sold on a one-year renewable basis.
From the three products, the Personal Accident offer by far proved to be the most popular. We attribute
this to the fact the product was affordable, that the sum insured looked high and that the product was
the easiest to explain. However, it is not certain that the Personal Accident product really addresses a
core customer need as accidental death and total permanent disability happen to be comparatively
infrequent events. There may have also been an element of curiosity to just test insurance in general at
play. Moreover, a significant part of the sales seem to have been driven by the close trust relationship
between the partners’ field staff and their customers. Purchases may, thus, have been relationship
driven rather than needs driven. After all, it is encouraging that several customersasked for proper term
life insurance and coverage for their children and extend family.
4. Seamless integration into existing processes and systems is a key
The tick-box pilot has successfully managed to closely integrate the marketing, enrolment and collection
processes into the existing workflows of the pilot partners. No new staff was needed and – after one or
the other adjustment - the additional workload for existing staff proved manageable. The existing credit
life business proved to be a good market as well as operations entry.
Another positive lesson learned is that the tick-box products do not require a major system upgrade at
the insurer’s end, if the microinsurance administration system is designed with customer conversion in
mind. This underlines the need to approach customer conversion strategically. The different sales stages
of customer conversion (mandatory, voluntary tick-box, telemarketing etc.) should be sketched out, at
least rudimentarily, from the very beginning.
5. Unclear “Micro-bancassurance” regulation prevents further efficiencies in the sales process
Due to lack of clarity of the current regulations relevant for microfinance, especially the BPR partners
were unsure if their staff was authorized to sell insurance on behalf of a licensed insurance company.
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Therefore, they preferred to have the enrolment forms separate from their own loan application forms,
in order to avoid physical evidence that in fact the MFI employees were soliciting insurance enrolments.
A clearer and more conducive regulation on this point would allow for an even closer integration of tick-
box insurance with the underlying loans. This would further simplify the sales pitch and make enrolment
easier, which in turn would help to boost sales.
The draft microinsurance regulation launched by the Indonesian Financial Supervisory Authority (OJK)
already clarifies that sale of insurance by MFI staff is allowed as long as the insurance partner has
sufficiently trained such staff. No independent agent licensing process would be needed under this so-
called “Microinsurance Grand Design”. However, this draft regulation is still awaiting its enactment.
6. Shadowing the front line staff of partners helps fine-tune the sales process
One clear difference between the two successful pilot partners and the two less successful one was the
job profile of their respective front line staff. We learned that lesson most vividly through several
shadowing missions where we accompanied staff to the field.
The field staff of BPR BDAL and KAKR cooperative worked under very tight schedules. Every day, they
were supposed to visit up to eight different locations. Under these circumstances, it is very difficult to
add even the smallest additional work package (i.e. insurance) to their job description.
The same condition initially existed with BPR BDAS as well. At first, their field staff was supposed to
explain insurance on top of their already busy schedules. Then, when the insurance promotion task was
shifted to the credit administrators at the branches, who benefit from a fixed work location and a more
lenient schedule, the situation rapidly changed for the better. Eventually, the BPR BDAS branch and field
staff established an effective division of tasks: The branch staff would give the main sales pitch to clients
and the field staff would take on any follow-ups and reminders with customers during the client visits.
Lastly, with KKBS the situation was again different. Here, the field staff that handled the insurance sales
were not responsible for actual loan and savings collection. Their main job was only to win new loans
and new savings accounts. This left the KKBS fields staff with significantly more time to look after
insurance than at the other three institutions.
7. Awareness rising and product sales need to go hand in hand
While the insurance awareness among the low-income target market was found to be low, there was an
obvious eagerness to learn more about insurance and try it out. This leads to a chicken and egg
situation: Insurance awareness does not rise significantly without an opportunity to buy products.
However, insurance products don’t sell, even if they are easily accessible, as long as they are not
properly explained and the concept of insurance is not well understood. The conclusion is, therefore,
that increased awareness and sales need to come as a package. This is what the pilot project tried to do
to a certain extent by having a suite of three products at hand, coupled with diligent staff training
efforts, posters, banners and the specifically designed insurance game. However, what is needed is
further innovation in scalable low-cost awareness building measures that symbiotically tie into the sales
and collection process.
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8. Disconnecting insurance from loans will be the key for renewals and loyalty building
Although the tick-box pilot has now been converted into established business practice with the two
more successful partners, one key challenge remains: Renewals! Both the mandatory credit life
coverage and the voluntary add-on insurance are single premium products. In most cases the premium
is deducted upfront from the loan amount. As soon as the loan expires, coverage ends.
Although customers could theoretically extend their tick-box cover by repurchasing the product stand-
alone, and even if they may be reminded on renewals by SMS, it is highly unpractical for the customer
and the MFI distribution partners. It would entail either the customer going to the MFI branch or the
field staff coming around specifically for a small insurance sales transaction. Both options carry high
operational or opportunity costs.
However, in order to foster long term loyalty to the Allianz brand and to provide uninterrupted
insurance protection, an efficient renewal process is needed. Here, Allianz Indonesia banks most of its
hopes on mobile money applications which have just started to make their appearance in Indonesia.
Another alternative would be a yet-to-be-designed auto-debit solution that withdraws premiums from
the customer’s savings accounts which they often hold with their credit institution.
Summary and recommendations
1. What worked well?
Winning distribution partners’ trust through initial credit life offering
Building a large-scale customer base with credit life, with a proven demand for further coverage
Achieving good conversion ratios and a promising outlook on telemarketing
Simple, flexible and low-cost sales process and operations
2. What needs further improvement?
Faster filtering of partners that have the right DNA for success
Products that are tailored more towards customers‘ needs, e.g. term life and family coverage
Regulations that clearly allow MFI staff to promote and sell insurance on behalf of licensed insurers,
with minimal licensing and training requirements
Efficient renewal process, e.g. through mobile money
Scalable low-cost awareness building that symbiotically ties in the sales and collection process
The customer conversion pilot of Allianz Indonesia can be called an encouraging success. It indicates that
customer conversion can work if conditions are right and partners are aligned. The upcoming challenges
are (a) scaling up the approach with larger partners and (b) arranging for efficient renewals.
Allianz Indonesia believes that the demonstrated conversion ratios, even at the 25 percent level seen at
the best performing partner, are still below the maximum saturation level. With more adequate
products, a focus on partners that meet the “partner success criteria”, and conducive regulations (for a
fully integrated tick-box sales approach), conversion rates could be significantly higher.