wildfires
Taking the heat

Each wildfire season in California seems worse than the last, but new technology is helping to contain the property damage...

Childhood's End

In the week of the World Children’s Day, it’s time to acknowledge that children continue to suffer from widespread poverty almost a century after the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was drafted. What is Allianz's contribution to alleviating this problem?

Natural disasters: Recovery road

Earth, fire, water and wind are the elements of nature. But when they go wild, disaster strikes – and the impact can be felt for generations...

Typhoon Mangkhut: Sound and Fury
Sound and Fury

The strength of Typhoon Mangkhut in Asia has shocked even veteran Allianz assessors as they work through the damages. Debris and broken, uprooted trees lay outside. With gale force winds of 173 kilometers (107 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 223 kph (138 mph), Mangkhut was stronger than Hurricane Florence that hit North Carolina recently. 

Allianz to become Worldwide Olympic Insurance Partner
Allianz to become Worldwide Olympic Insurance Partner

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Allianz announced that the insurer will join the “Worldwide Olympic Partner” (TOP) Programme in 2021. Through this sponsorship agreement, Allianz will work with the IOC to provide innovative and integrated insurance solutions to support the Olympic Movement, including the Organising Committees of the Olympic Games, with the ambition of providing those insurance solutions to the National Olympic Committees around the world and their Olympic teams and athletes. 

Allianz tops Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2018 as most sustainable insurer
Allianz tops Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2018 as most sustainable insurer

Allianz Group achieved the top position as sector leader among all rated insurance companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). This is the second time in a row since 2017. In the results of the world’s most relevant sustainability index, published today, Allianz ranks with 85 points well above the average sector scoring of 47 points...

Life Lessons from Football
Life Lessons from Football

As legendary soccer star Oliver Kahn caught up with 56 young athletes at the 2018 Allianz Explorer Camp, he revisited five life lessons from football…

Water: Thirst for Life
Thirst for life

This year’s exceptionally hot summer in large parts of the planet has highlighted the precariousness of a finite resource – clean, consumable water – that we too often take for granted…

Allianz World Run 2018: Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run

Pull up your socks and dust off those shoes. The Allianz World Run 2018 has begun and you’re invited to be a part of the fun run to good health.Over the past two years of the Allianz World Run, more than 22,000 Allianz employees from 55 countries ran 2.75 million kilometers, each year smashing the record for the “longest cumulative distance run by one team in 90 days”. This time around, the event has been opened to everyone as Allianz aims to inspire more people to get moving.