The AISAM was since 1963 an international organisation bringing together private mutual insurers and cooperative companies, aiming to promote and to protect the general interests of private insurance based on the mutuality model, to facilitate cooperation and to serve as a platform for sharing expertise and experiences among its members.

Membership of the AISAM was open to all private mutual insurance organizations of any country and of any branch provided that they have been duly incorporated according to the laws of the country of their registered office.

Since January 2008, AISAM and ACME (the Association of European Cooperative and Mutual Insurers) have joined to form AMICE, the Association of Mutual Insurers and Insurance Cooperatives in Europe. This new entity AMICE has its seat in Brussels and has taken over the activities of both AISAM and ACME. It has continued to represent and promote the interests of mutual and cooperative insurers in Europe, like a first common event of the AMICE (AISAM-ACME) with the Congress of year 2008.

The AISAM, association established under Dutch law was founded in 1963 on the initiative of members of mutual benefit companies and operated on a not-for-profit basis. Its registered office was in Amsterdam (NL).