International Program Partners

Brazil--FUNENSEG
Fundação Escola Nacional de Seguros (or FUNENSEG) is licensed to translate Institute study materials and exams in Portuguese and deliver those programs to the Brazilian market.

FUNENSEG was established in 1971 with the objective to promote education, knowledge, and research in insurance. With nearly 35 years’ of experience, FUNENSEG offers professional insurance education that ranges from introductory courses to post-graduate degrees.

FUNENSEG is based in Rio de Janeiro.

France--CARM_i sarl
With offices in Limeray and Vincennes, France, the CARM_Institute offers the study materials and exams for all courses in the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation program in French.

More than 300 people have earned ARM in France through CARM_i. An additional 400 people have completed at least two of the three required ARM courses. ARM seminars are held at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Vélizy, near Paris.

The CARM_Institute has a close working relationship with the Institut pour l'Etude et la Recherche de la Sécurité des Entreprises (IERSE) through l'Ecole Supérieure de la Gendarmerie (Ecole Militaire) and l'Université Paris 1, Sorbonne.

Since 2003, the CARM_Institute has also bestowed 12 European Fellow in Applied Risk Management designations to ARM designees who attended the master classes in risk management. Fellows were required to write a risk management program, which was approved by a jury of high-level risk management and insurance professionals.

Japan
For information on exams in Japan or CPCU materials in Japanese, contact Keiji Fukasawa, CPCU, Finrex Japan.
Mobile: 090-2154-8855
Fax/Tel.: 044-988-7451
Email: k-fukasawa@par.odn.ne.jp.

Middle East North Africa—Gulf Insurance Institute
The Gulf Insurance Institute (GII) is a preferred provider of in-class courses for all of The Institutes’ programs throughout the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. It offers tuition and examination services for several of The Institutes’ designation courses at its training centre in Bahrain attracting students from all over the region.

The GII was founded by a number of major insurance organisations in the region as a leading organisation dedicated to provide learning, sustain development and reward achievement to professionals engaged in conventional and Islamic insurance practice, risk management and related financial services primarily in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The following educational programs are currently offered:

CPCU® – a five month, full time, in-residence programme covering the eight modules for the qualification

ARM – Associate in Risk Management

ARe – Associate in Reinsurance

AU – Associate in Commercial Underwriting

AIC – Associate in Claims

Contact:
The Registrar
Gulf Insurance Institute
P.O. Box 75708
Bahrain
Tel: +973 16030303
info@giionline.net
www.giionline.net


Middle East North Africa—JWZ Solutions
JWZ Solutions, registered in the Kingdom of Bahrain, is the distributer of AINS study materials translated into Arabic and a preferred provider of in-class courses for all Institutes programs throughout the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region.

Switzerland--Insurance Institute of Switzerland
The Insurance Institute of Switzerland (IIS) offers several diploma and certificate level courses in Zurich and Geneva as well as in the Principality of Liechtenstein. It serves as official testing center for Institute exams.

The IIS was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of the Swiss Insurance Broker Association (SIBA). To date, over 500 insurance and risk management professionals have attended coached classes and passed formal exams leading either to a professional designation or a certificate of completion.

The educational programs currently offered are:

ARM – Associate in Risk Management (IIA), English and French
ERM – Enterprise-Wide Risk Management: Developing and Implementing course, English
ARM-E (new combined designation ARM + ERM course, above)
AU – Associate in Commercial Underwriting, English
AIS – Associate in Insurance Services, English
Re-Insurance Fundamentals Certificate (part of ARe), English
Introduction to Risk Management, English
Introduction to P&C Insurance, English
CIB® – Chartered Insurance Broker, English/German (ARM + Insurance Broking Certificate + 3 yrs. min. broking experience)
Insurance Broking Certificate, German
English Insurance Language Certificate, English
Company tailored modules

Contact details:
Insurance Institute of Switzerland (IIS)
Tessinerplatz 12, 8002 Zurich, Switzerland
info@insurance-institute.ch

Secretariat: Mrs. Ursula Freuler
Ph. ++41 43 817 67 67



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