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CPCU program refocuses professional designations. (Property/Casualty).


The American Institute for CPCU CPCU Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter
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 is making major changes in its Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) is considered to be the premier professional designation in property-casualty insurance and risk management. The rigorous curriculum includes eight (8) post-secondary undergraduate, or graduate-level courses covering topics such as  professional designation program. Beginning this summer, the program will consist of eight rather than 10 courses and national examinations; require students to concentrate in either commercial or personal insurance; have an enhanced financial-services focus with the introduction of a new financial-services institutions course and a new personal financial planning Financial planning

Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against
 course; and allow waivers for law degrees and MBA MBA
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Master in Business, Master in Business Administration
 degrees.

"Specialization, a global economy, the convergence of property/casualty insurance with financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 and the growth of the alternative risk-transfer market have changed the world in which we work...Our new CPCU curriculum is based on extensive market research and discussions with senior industry leaders. It is designed to meet the evolving needs of business and personal insurance consumers," said institute President and Chief Executive Officer Terrie E. Troxel.

James J. Markham, the institute's senior vice president in charge of cur cur

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 riculum, gave details of the new CPCU program. "These changes require CPCU candidates to develop a more comprehensive knowledge of how risk management and insurance fit into the total financial needs of their customers."

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The current CPCU exams will credit for exams in the new curriculum, which are indicated in parentheses See parenthesis.

parentheses - See left parenthesis, right parenthesis.
:

* CPCU 1 Ethics, Insurance Perspectives and Insurance Contract Analysis (CPCU 510)

* CPCU 2 Personal Insurance and Risk Management (CPCU 553, commercial, and CPCU 555, personal)

* CPCU 3 Commercial Property Insurance and Risk Management (CPCU 551)

* CPCU 4 Commercial Liability Insurance and Risk Management (CPCU 552)

* CPCU 5 Insurance Operations (CPCU 520)

* CPCU 6 The Legal Environment (CPCU 530)

* CPCU 7 Management (CPCU 560)

* CPCU 8 Accounting and Finance for Insurance Professionals (CPCU 540)

* CPCU 9 Economics (CPCU 560)
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Date:Jun 1, 2002
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