Certified Insurance Risk & Strategy Professional (CIRSP™)

Inside an insurer, most of the people who decide on risk are not actuaries: the blueprint estimates that more than 90 % of the industry is not. For them there is no credential path. Actuarial designations certify the calculation and take seven to ten years; the CPCU is entirely US-focused and does not cover Solvency II, IFRS 17 or Latin American frameworks; the CII is not offered in Spanish and has a negligible presence in the region; CONAC is a professional body, not an examination system. The gap is precise: a credential that measures strategic and regulatory command of the risk function, not the ability to compute the reserve.

Certified Insurance Risk & Strategy Professional (CIRSP™) demonstrates that the professional reads the economic balance sheet, the capital requirement and the minimum-capital corridor; interprets an IFRS 17 statement; governs underwriting, claims and the investment of reserves; runs the ORSA and stress tests, including catastrophe and climate scenarios; applies model governance to the adoption of InsurTech; and acts under standards of ethics and market conduct. It is certified by the RiskMathics Certificate Institute, an independent third party separated from teaching. It belongs to Family B of the catalog, alongside Certified Chief Risk Officer and Certified Chief Credit Officer: executive paths for those who answer for a risk function before the board and the regulator.

Today an insurer that hires or promotes in risk, underwriting, claims or investments has two signals: the actuarial degree and the track record. Neither measures the function. The degree certifies the calculation; the track record certifies time. An institution that requires this certification gains a third signal, verifiable and comparable across candidates: the person reads the Solvency II balance sheet, the ORSA and the IFRS 17 statement in a single session, and can explain them to the risk committee, the board and the supervisor.

For groups operating in several jurisdictions, the certification provides a shared vocabulary across CNSF, SUSEP, NAIC and EIOPA, and stops each country from training its own version of risk. For reinsurers and supervisors, it produces counterparts who speak the same technical language. It should be said plainly: the certification has no regulatory recognition and is not a license; it is a hiring and promotion standard that the institution chooses to adopt.

Mock exams reproduce the exam recipe: the same distribution by domain and by Bloom level, the same length and the same item type. They are not a review; they are a rehearsal under real conditions.

They are built from the Institute's item bank at Bloom levels 1, 2 and 3 and administered under the same exposure control as the exam. Results are reported by domain: the candidate knows whether the problem lies in IFRS 17, in the investment regime or in underwriting, and where to concentrate the weeks that remain.