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With 60 years of experience in the Australian insurance industry, Ansvar has become a leading specialist provider of insurance and risk management solutions for the Care Services, Community Services (Not For Profits), Learning and Education Services, Faith Communities, Arts, Culture and Heritage and Commercial Property Owner sectors in Australia.
As a sector specialist, Ansvar has developed a deep understanding of clients’ needs, the risks and challenges they face and the complex environments in which they operate. We understand that fully protecting our clients requires a holistic approach and that being protected isn’t simply about insuring against events that might happen but where possible taking steps to prevent or minimise the impact of those events in the first place.
Ansvar has a dedicated team of risk management specialists that can assist brokers and clients in assessing effectiveness of current approaches to risk management and guide opportunities for improvement. Ansvar’s risk specialists can support your journey with expert governance and risk consultancy, risk workshops and training, tools and templates, online sector-specific risk packages and provide access to our risk partners to provide you specialist systems and advice.
Commercial Property Owners
We protect commercial property investors and owners of retail stores, offices and commercial mixed tenancies.
Care Services
We protect organisations in Aged Care, Disability Care, Child Care, Home Care service providers and Retirement Living.
Community Services
We protect Community groups, Not for Profits, Community and Sporting Clubs, Social Services, Vocational Care, Youth Organisations and coverage of special events.
Faith Communities
We protect Religious organisations of all denominations, Temples, Cathedrals, Mosques, Synagogues and Churches.
Learning & Education Services
We protect Independent Schools, Adult Education institutions, Early Learning centres and those involved in tutoring.
Arts, Culture & Heritage
We protect Museums, Theatres, Heritage, national buildings, National Trust buildings, and historic sites.
Commercial Property Owners
We protect commercial property investors and owners of retail stores, offices and commercial mixed tenancies.
Care Services
We protect organisations in Aged Care, Disability Care, Child Care, Home Care service providers and Retirement Living.
Giving Back
But what really sets Ansvar apart is our mission. It is not only our mission to be the most trusted and ethical specialist insurer within our core sectors but also to make a significant contribution to help build safer communities that promote well-being and peace of mind.
Importantly, we truly care about protecting the most vulnerable in our community and are specialists in working with brokers and clients in better understanding and safeguarding against abuse. In fact, being an insurer of thousands of Care organisations focused on looking after Australia’s most vulnerable people, Ansvar has an intimate knowledge and understanding about how best to protect and safeguard the needs of carers and vulnerable people.
Being owned by the Benefact Group which gives all its available profits to good causes, we genuinely believe in making a positive impact on the world, supporting our community groups, charities and faith organisations and making a real difference by giving back to support good causes in our local communities.
In fact, Ansvar aims to give back at least 10% of available annual profits to charitable or good causes. For 30 years now, Ansvar has made a genuine difference to the lives of disadvantaged young Australians by giving back over $15m in grants through the Ansvar Community Education Program.
Our Promise to Customers
At Ansvar, we believe that the best insurance protection is much more than just a policy – it’s your experience as our broker partner or customer that really counts whether it’s when things go wrong or when you just want to talk to us. Your trust is what drives our efforts and we aim to stand out in every situation.
We will continually strive to exceed broker and customer expectations and be honest and professional in everything we do so that you can be confident that your organisation and people are in safe hands.
To achieve our promise to brokers and customers alike, we will deliver on six guiding principles:
Purpose
Purpose
At Ansvar, our purpose is to be the most trusted and ethical specialist insurer within our core sectors and contribute to help building safer communities that promote well-being and peace of mind
Advice
Advice
We will provide expert advice and protection
Conduct
Conduct
We will be a market leader in the way we conduct ourselves
Our Products & Communication
Our Products & Communication
We will provide products that meet customer needs and communications that are clear and easy to understand
Service
Service
We will deliver a consistently outstanding customer experience
Pricing
Pricing
We will charge a fair price generating profits for good causes
Our History
Ansvar Insurance was launched in Australia in 1961 by the Swedish company Ansvar Mutual as a motor and household insurance company that only insured people who did not drink alcoholic beverages or considered otherwise as ‘total abstainers’. At the time, the requirement that all policyholders were total abstainers from alcohol applied equally to staff members and directors. From the beginning, Ansvar added property and liability insurances to its range of products available to businesses owned by total abstainers and to churches, but this was limited only to churches who held a firm policy opposing alcohol usage.
Over the last 60 years, Ansvar has grown and developed to become a leading insurance and risk specialist with a focus on the Care Services, Community Services (Not For Profits), Learning and Education Services, Faith Communities, Arts, Culture and Heritage and Commercial Property Owner sectors.
The Benefact Group
Since the early 60’s, Ansvar has come a long way and in 1998, the UK based company, the Benefact Group (formerly the Ecclesiastical Insurance Group) purchased Ansvar Mutual and became the parent of Ansvar Insurance in Australia. Established in 1887 and originally created to protect parish churches from fire, the Group has been in existence for over 130 years and has grown to become an international family of businesses providing specialist insurance, investment management and broking and advisory services in the UK, Australia, Canada and Ireland.
With the backing, support and guidance of our parent company, the Benefact Group, Ansvar has evolved to become one of the leading insurance and risk solutions specialists in Australia today.