Chartered Insurance Institute · RQF Level 6
CII Level 6 Advanced Diploma in Insurance
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits66
- Guided learning442 hours
- Units in this qualification15
Awarded by Chartered Insurance Institute · on the Ofqual register
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These are the units Chartered Insurance Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advanced claimsReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the management of the claims function
- Evaluate and apply claims service principles and practices
- Evaluate the application of technical claims principles
- Analyse the financial aspects of the claims function
Advanced insurance brokingReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the competitive environment for insurance brokers.
- Analyse the management, implementation and control of regulation, compliance and the law as they apply to insurance brokers.
- Analyse the operational and management challenges faced by insurance brokers.
Advanced risk financing and transferReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the role that risk financing and risk transfer play in risk management
- Evaluate the use of unfunded risk financing mechanisms
- Evaluate the use of funded risk financing mechanisms
- Evaluate the use of conventional pre-loss risk transfer mechanisms
- Evaluate the use of non-conventional pre-loss risk transfer mechanisms
- Evaluate the use of post-loss risk transfer mechanisms
Advanced underwritingReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse key regulation and legislation affecting the underwriting function.
- Evaluate underwriting strategy, policy and practice.
- Analyse the principles and practices of pricing.
- Evaluate the management of exposures in the portfolio.
- Evaluate planning, portfolio monitoring and operational controls.
Advances in strategic risk management in insuranceReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the benefits of effective decision making for insurance operations
- Evaluate different perspectives on risk management decision making
- Analyse how insurance operations make decisions in practice
- Evaluate different perspectives on setting and communicating risk appetite in insurance operations
- Evaluate risk culture in insurance operations
- Analyse the impact that insurance and corporate governance regulation can have on risk management decisions
Economics and businessReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the nature of the economy and relevant economic issues.
- Analyse and apply demand and supply concepts.
- Evaluate market structures and the business environment.
- Evaluate the impact of ethics, corporate governance, and risk management on insurance business.
- Analyse the macro economy and aspects of monetary and fiscal policy.
- Evaluate international trading and financial relationships.
- Analyse the interaction between economics and accounting.
Insurance corporate managementReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the structures and management of insurance organisations.
- Evaluate financial issues and control mechanisms in the management of insurance organisations.
- Evaluate regulatory issues and their impact on the management of insurance organisations.
- Evaluate the current and future challenges to the management of insurance organisations.
Insurance market specialisationReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate a research question or problem in an area of interest that would be relevant to the Insurance Market
- Apply appropriate research methodology
- Draft a research proposal
- Conduct research for the dissertation
- Write the dissertation
Insurance market specialisationReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate a research question or problem in an area of interest that would be relevant to the Insurance Market.
- Apply appropriate research methodology.
- Draft a research proposal.
- Conduct research for the dissertation.
- Write the dissertation.
London market insurance specialisationReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate a research question or problem in an area of interest that would be relevant to the London Insurance Market.
- Apply appropriate research methodology.
- Draft a research proposal.
- Conduct research for the dissertation.
- Write the dissertation.
Marketing insurance products and servicesReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the role and operation of marketing within the insurance industry.
- Analyse insurance product and service development and positioning strategies.
- Evaluate the various methods used for the distribution of insurance products and services.
- Analyse the role of communication strategies in the marketing of insurance products and services.
Principles of takafulReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and key concepts of insurance.
- Understand key Shariah concepts relevant to financial practice.
- Understand how and why Takaful differs from conventional insurance provision.
- Understand how Takaful models operate.
- Understand the role of reTakaful.
- Apply appropriate financial practices to a Takaful operation.
- Discuss the operational and market challenges and opportunities for Takaful.
Risk management in insuranceReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the role of risk management in the insurance sector.
- Analyse the elements of an effective risk management framework in the insurance sector.
- Understand the regulatory framework for risk management in the insurance sector.
- Analyse the management of strategic risks.
- Evaluate the management of core insurance risks.
- Evaluate the management of financial risk.
- Evaluate the management of operational risk.
- Evaluate capital management in the insurance sector.
Strategic claims managementReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss the role of strategic claims management within the insurance value chain.
- Evaluate the implications of regulation for a claims function.
- Evaluate the claims strategy within the broader business context, culture and corporate strategy.
- Evaluate the financial impact of the claims strategy on the business.
- Analyse the requirements of a leadership role in the claims function.
- Analyse wider issues that affect claims strategy.
Strategic underwritingReal unit · Chartered Insurance Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss global strategic insurance issues.
- Evaluate the underwriting strategy within the broader business context, culture and strategy.
- Evaluate the underwriting strategy within the corporate and business context.
- Analyse how the underwriting function will be managed and resourced to deliver the underwriting strategy.
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Where this can lead
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One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will evaluate the management of the claims function and apply claims service principles and practices. The unit also covers technical claims principles and the financial aspects of claims management within insurance organisations.
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- Analyse
- Evaluate
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Built for CII Level 6 Advanced Diploma in Insurance
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Insurance Institute.
- Advanced claims
- Advanced insurance broking
- Advanced risk financing and transfer
- Advanced underwriting
- Advances in strategic risk management in insurance
- Economics and business
and 8 more in the full unit list below.
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No two people run this the same way
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- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
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