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ARM 56—Risk Financing

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Bottom-Line Benefits

  • Help avoid potentially costly coverage gaps by learning to design insurance plans
  • Support the organization’s overall financial goals by learning to build and implement a balanced risk financing strategy using retention, transfer, and hybrids
  • Enhance the organization’s risk transfer flexibility by learning to establish and manage a captive and alternative risk transfer (ART)


Level: Advanced

ARM 56 Segment A Topics:

  • Understanding Risk Financing
  • Insurance as a Risk Financing Technique
  • Insurance Plan Design
  • Forecasting Accidental Losses and Risk Financing Needs

ARM 56 Segment B Topics:

  • Self-Insurance Plans
  • Retrospective Rating Plans
  • Reinsurance and Its Importance to a Risk Financing Plan
  • Captive Insurance Plans

ARM 56 Segment C Topics:

  • Finite and Integrated Risk Insurance Plans
  • Capital Market Risk Financing Plans
  • Noninsurance Contractual Transfer of Risk
  • Purchasing Insurance and Other Risk Financing Services
  • Allocating Risk Management Costs

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