Insurer reps teach risk concepts to kids

Kids’ awareness of risk management was sharpened last week to mark this year’s Insurance Day

Insurance News

By Maryvonne Gray

Photo: ICNZ insurance manager John Lucas teaching students about risk management

Representatives from insurers such as AA Insurance, AIG, Vero, IAG, FM, Tower and QBE devoted this year’s Insurance Day to enlighten school kids on the concept of risk management.

The exercise is part of the Insurance Council of New Zealand’s (ICNZ) financial capability program, designed to educate students about risk management and the protection of assets.
Members of ICNZ fund the program with representatives from the comms committee closely supporting it.

Program partners are the Young Enterprise Trust and Banqer.

This year council members targeted students from Auckland’s Glenbrae School, Pt England School, Glen Taylor School and Glen Innes School.

The exercise this year involved a volcano simulation with students learning about the consequences to their homes they had purchased in the program.

A highlight for the kids was getting the chance to win a women’s rugby sevens shirt which had been signed by the whole team and rugby balls signed by the All Blacks.


This shows the spot prize of a signed womens rugby sevens shirt given away by AIG with ICNZ’s Tim Grafton and Youth Enterprise Trust’s Paul Newsom 


AIG NZ corporate communications lead Shannon Morrison uses the Banqer software with students


ICNZ members with students from Auckland’s Glenbrae School, Pt England School, Glen Taylor School and Glen Innes School


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