Affiliates - The Institutes CPCU Society

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The CPCU Society is affiliated with The Institutes – a leading provider of risk management and insurance education and research. Through its many affiliates and business units, The Institutes provide professional development offerings aimed at every career stage. Better yet – many of these business units provide free or discounted offerings on behalf of the industry. CPCU Society members are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of all available offerings. Learn more below.

The Institutes

The Institutes are a not-for-profit comprised of diverse affiliates that educate, elevate, and connect people in the essential disciplines of risk management and insurance.

The Institutes Knowledge Group

The Institutes Knowledge Group helps people build foundational, technical and leadership skills to stay ahead of evolving trends in risk management and insurance. They offer more than 25 practical professional designations, including CPCU®, along with topic courses, micro-courses for learning in the flow of work, collegiate studies, and executive and leadership education programs, all focused on the business of risk management and insurance.

Agent & Broker Group

The Institutes Agent & Broker group provides brokers, producers, agency professionals, and CSRs at any stage in their careers with the knowledge and education to help them stand out from the competition. They offer a full suite of training solutions to help you become the consultative partner your clients demand. Explore thier Risk and Employee Benefits Topic Courses, Micro-Certs, and Agent & Broker Path to Career Success, an accelerated option to complete your PRC, ARM™, and CPCU® courses.

Black Insurance Industry Collective

The Black Insurance Industry Collective™ (BIIC™) supports and accelerates the advancement of Black insurance professionals and increases industry representation of Black managers, leaders, and executives.

The CLM

The CLM is dedicated to meeting the professional development needs of the claims and litigation management profession. Since 2007 we have provided our growing membership of over 50,000 professionals with opportunities to expand their knowledge, build their personal brand, and advance their careers through continuing education programs, networking events, industry resources, and designations.

CEU

CEU makes earning your CE easy, affordable, and accessible. CEU’s library of 150+ insurance CE courses are approved in all 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam for Property/Casualty and Life/Health insurance licenses. CEU offers courses on a wide range of subjects, plus those that meet specific state requirements — including ethics credits!

All CPCU Society Professional and Post Career members enjoy a 35% discount off all CEU courses. Explore the CEU course library today!

Claims Pages

Claims Pages is a comprehensive online news and reference source for more than 250,000 claims professionals. Claims Pages offers news, videos, forms, tools, event calendars, career listings, and other resources critical to effective adjuster performance.

Catastrophe Resiliency Council

CRC, the Catastrophe Resiliency Council, was formed in 2021 to advance resilience from natural catastrophes. It is composed of a group of U.S. insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, and model providers facilitated by The Institutes.

The Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation

The Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation is dedicated to promoting the study and teaching of risk management and insurance by offering nonadvocacy educational programs and resources to public policymakers as helpful job aids.

Insurance Accounting and Systems Association (IASA)

The Insurance Accounting and Systems Association (IASA) focuses on providing education and networking opportunities within the areas of insurance accounting and finance. IASA’s community roots, consisting of thousands of members and insurance constituents, in addition to 22 national chapters, run deep, with a mission to accelerate professional growth to shape, influence, elevate and strengthen the insurance industry.

Insurance Information Institute

The Insurance Information Institute serves as the trusted source of unique, data-driven insights on insurance to inform and empower consumers. Since 1960, Triple-I has served consumers, media and professionals seeking objective, fact-based insurance information.

Insurance Research Council (IRC)

The IRC provides timely and reliable research to all parties involved in public policy issues affecting risk management and insurance by developing extensive reports that breakdown complex issues.

Insurance Thought Leadership

ITL publishes thought leadership on risk management and insurance innovation and emerging technology on InsuranceThoughtLeadership.com and through the Six Things weekly email newsletter.

International Insurance Society (IIS)

IIS is a global forum for risk management and insurance leaders focused on leveraging world-class research as a force to drive growth and innovation. As the premier member-based organization for global executives, IIS has a long and successful history of engaging industry, academic and government leaders from nearly 100 countries.

The National Ergonomics Conference & ErgoExpo®

The National Ergonomics Conference & ErgoExpo® (ErgoExpo) is the nation’s largest and longest-running ergonomics event, focused on providing knowledge about making employees safer by mitigating workplace injuries.

National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference® & Expo

National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference® & Expo (NWCDC) is the largest national workers compensation event and exposition. For nearly 30 years it has drawn the leaders seeking to advance workers’ comp and disability management programs and skills.

The Pacific Insurance Conference

The Pacific Insurance Conference (PIC) Limited organizes and conducts corporate events for risk management and insurance as well as financial services executives focused on life, health, retirement savings and wealth management business in the Pacific Rim. PIC is a not-for-profit organization registered in Hong Kong that has hosted biennial conferences since 1963.

Risk & Insurance

Risk & Insurance® is the leading digital and print platform for risk management and insurance news and information. It is also known for its award programs, including the Power Broker award.

The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative

The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative™ is an unprecedented, industry-led consortium collaborating to unlock the potential of blockchain across risk management and insurance. The RiskStream Collaborative and its members are accelerating time to market and adoption through real-world applications and meaningful blockchain use cases.