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AISAM report on companies' social responsibility shows insurance firms have integrated ethnic and social values for some time now

Brussels, 18/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - The mutual insurers that are members of AISAM (Association internationale des Sociétés d'Assurances mutuelles) have for a long while now integrated ethnic and social values into their way of working. “They are now assuming social responsibility and corporate governance without knowing it and often without making it known”, the AISAM report on “Social responsibility: indispensable mutual insurance” stated last autumn.

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