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Annual Report 2003 INSURANCE AUSTRALIA GROUP WHAT DOES IAG STAND FOR? Annual Report 2003 INSURANCE AUSTRALIA GROUP Insurance Australia Group Limited ABN 60 090 739 923 e are Australasia’s leading general insurance group. We provide personal, commercial W and rural insurance, and retirement financial products and services. We have around 11 million policies in force across Australia and New Zealand, own some of the region’s most respected brands and employ around 11,000 people. That is what we are. This report is about something more. It’s about what we stand for. IAG stands for... IAG stands for... IAG stands for... IAG stands for... HELP WHEN MAKING BUILDING SOLID 24 Board of Directors YOU NEED COMMUNITIES HIGH UNDERLYING 26 The CEO’s executive team IT MOST SAFER PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE 28 Corporate governance 32 Five year financial summary 33 Directors’ report Pg 2Pg 4 Pg 6 Pg 8 38 Financial performance 39 Financial position IAG stands for... IAG stands for... REVIEW OF SAFETY, 40 Cash flows STABILITY CLEAR OPERATIONS ENVIRONMENT, 41 Notes to the Chairman’s view DIRECTION COMMUNITY financial statements CEO’s report 84 Directors’ declaration 85 Independent auditors' report 86 Shareholder information Pg 10 Pg 12 Pg 17 Pg 23 89 Corporate directory 1 IAG STANDS FOR... HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST Our business is to pay claims as quickly as possible and provide insurance to the community at an affordable cost. But we don’t stop there. We look for practical opportunities to help beyond just paying claims. Jan 03 After bushfires ravaged almost one-third of Canberra, our first full claim was paid within 3 days. 2 2,000 2,000 claims were received following the New Zealand weather bomb. IAG NZ is working with Thames Council to mitigate future risk. Whether it’s a day-to-day claim or a questions about rebuilding their homes that we life-changing emergency, we try to empathise really couldn’t answer. We responded with the “When people have with our customers, business partners, NRMA Insurance Help Expo, which was a free trauma, the one thing brokers and agents, and find a way to event for the community to come together for offer the ‘right’ kind of help at the right time. advice on the rebuilding and recovery process. they need is accurate That may mean providing straightforward With the support of the ACT Bushfire product information. Or it may mean setting information in an Recovery Taskforce, more than 50 exhibitors up a temporary office in a community struck attended the Help Expo. They included easy format that they by disaster and dedicating resources to building and architectural organisations, help communities prevent future damage. legal advisers, community safety and can just sit down ON THE GROUND AT THE security specialists, financial planners, and understand – CANBERRA BUSHFIRES environmental experts, social welfare and In January, the Australian Capital Territory trauma counsellors, and state and local and I think the (ACT) and surrounding regions experienced government representatives. An information the seventh largest insured catastrophe in kit was also provided to help our customers Help Expo has Australian history when firestorms ravaged along their road to recovery. given people that.” almost one-third of the national capital. In a similar way, we worked with CGU’s business Amanda Tobler When news of the fires emerged, our first partner, Bendigo Bank, to host an information Lifeline Manager and priority was to contact the people insured session for customers and the local community, NRMA Insurance Help Expo participant. with us, through NRMA Insurance and CGU, following the mini-tornado in Northern Bendigo and help process claims, provide emergency in May this year. funds of up to $5,000 per claim and organise WEATHERING THE STORM temporary accommodation and trauma IN NEW ZEALAND counselling. Extra Teleclaims operators When a weather bomb – a short storm causing volunteered from surrounding areas to help severe damage – struck New Zealand’s manage the 350 enquiries we received daily. Thames/Corommandel region in late June last Our mobile claims processing van, the Help year, more than 2,000 claims were received Van, joined local assessors in the devastated from policyholders insured with State Insurance areas as soon as emergency services permitted and NZI. access. A specialised claims operation was also set up at the Braddon branch to provide Immediately following the storm, David Smith, personal assistance to affected customers. the CEO of IAG New Zealand Limited (IAG NZ), In all, we received more than 1,800 personal went to the area at the centre of the damage insurance claims and more than 100 and met with local customers and the Thames commercial insurance claims as a result of Council Mayor. Soon after, IAG NZ agreed to these fires. And we are proud to say we paid join a project team set up by local authorities our first full claim within three days of the event. to examine risk mitigation options, including insurance, in the event of future catastrophe. PAVING THE ROAD TO RECOVERY That team’s work is now under way and an Once the immediate threat of the fires passed, IAG NZ employee has been seconded to the we found our customers were asking some Thames Council on a full-time basis. 3 IAG STANDS FOR... MAKING COMMUNITIES SAFER We live here too. So safe communities are high on our agenda. It’s in all our interests that we share our experience and understanding to reduce the risk of accidents, catastrophes and other insurable events, such as theft, happening in the first place. We also support the businesses we rely on, to ensure their sustainability and the fabric of the communities in which we operate. 19out of 20 Rural stars of the top major We're working with For more than 15 years, we’ve insurance catastrophes one of the world's supported local businesses in Australian history top weather in Ballarat, Orange and have been weather modelling teams on Tamworth through the CGU related. key weather research. Business Awards. 4 HYPE Helping Young People Engage is one of the local groups benefiting from our SGIO/SGIC/NRMA Insurance CrimeSafe programme. RINGING THE WARNING BELL In some instances, CrimeSafe projects have ON CLIMATE CHANGE been so successful that we continue our “We knew something Global warming, and its link with greenhouse support with a long-term commitment beyond had to be done emissions, is increasing the frequency and the grant. The Helping Young People Engage severity of weather related events such as (HYPE) programme in Kalgoorlie is a great about crime in the storms, cyclones, hail and drought across example. HYPE, which is run by the Safer Australia and New Zealand. WA Committee, provides a positive approach Kalgoorlie community, to issues facing young people by building Claims research from Insurance Australia relations between young people, HYPE but we just didn't Group and the work of leading experts, workers, Safer WA, businesses and the police. nationally and overseas, show how just a The team of HYPE workers patrol the Hannan have the funding slight change in the climate can dramatically Street Central Business District of Kalgoorlie to keep the HYPE affect weather and the threat of damage. every Thursday night, talking to young people and helping them appreciate there are programme running. This has serious implications for the lives, alternatives to illegal behaviour. In doing so, health, personal property and basic commercial the number of police callouts to the CBD The CrimeSafe grant infrastructure of Australians and New Zealanders has reduced significantly. – especially when you consider that 19 of from SGIO gave the top 20 major insured catastrophes in Our work to reduce crime fits in with our Australian history have been weather related. broader community support programme that us the funding we is focused on using our expertise to reduce We think we can help. We’re carrying out more risk at home, on the road and at work. needed to make research, in conjunction with one of the world’s Further information can be found in the HYPE workers top weather modelling teams. We’ll use the Safety, Environment, Community section findings with key national and global leaders of this report. and the community, so we can work together visible and reduce to reduce the likelihood of severe weather SUPPORTING THE FUTURE anti-social and impacts to properties and lives. We’re also BUSINESS STARS OF exploring new products and services that RURAL COMMUNITIES criminal behaviour can create business value and encourage It’s a fact that, in rural Australia, young people sustainable behaviour. In our own backyard, are moving away to metropolitan centres in the CBD.” we have adopted a proactive sustainability because they no longer see clear job prospects policy and are modifying business practices or opportunities. We don’t consider this as an Esther Roadnight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. inevitable trend. And we think by supporting Chairman, Safer WA rural communities and rebuilding confidence Goldfields District Committee. HELPING COMMUNITIES in local businesses, that we can even do REDUCE CRIME something to reverse it. Crime is another major cause of claims, and we’re working with local communities For more than 15 years, we’ve sponsored to find ways to reduce it. In 2002/2003, the CGU Business Awards in Ballarat, through our national SGIO/SGIC/NRMA Tamworth and Orange. This year alone, Insurance CrimeSafe grant programme, we we’ve given more than $100,000 to promising provided 47 grants to local communities, businesses through these awards. These help projects and groups supporting crime to dispel the myth that you need to leave reduction initiatives. rural communities to succeed in business.
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