The Institutes
The leading provider of risk management and insurance knowledge, credentialing, and education, best known as the body behind the CPCU designation and a broad suite of professional designations for the insurance industry.
Peer societies
Five societies The Institutes is read alongside.
ACFS
The American College of Financial Services
A nonprofit college that has served for nearly a century as the credentialing engine of financial services…
16 companies named
NAIER
The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research
An education and research organization that awards the insurance industry's practitioner designations…
14 companies named
RIMS
Risk and Insurance Management Society
The professional society for risk and insurance management practitioners, advancing the discipline through…
283 companies named
ARIA
American Risk and Insurance Association
The premier academic society for risk and insurance scholarship, publishing the leading peer reviewed…
1 companies named
CAS
Casualty Actuarial Society
The professional body that credentials property and casualty actuaries through the ACAS and FCAS designations…
22 companies named
Who backs I
Every company The Institutes names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.
| Company | Support as published | Also named by |
|---|---|---|
| Geico | Corporate partner | AAF BMCC CMA CS GKCCC +3 |
| Travelers | Corporate partner | AAF AAM AGCA CS HFPG +3 |
| CarFax | Corporate partner | CAS CS CUNA NADA |
| RLI | Corporate partner | CS IIABA IIABA RIMS |
| Wahve | Corporate partner | AAIS CS RIMS |
| Wilson Elser | Corporate partner | CRA CS DVDB |
| Xceedance | Corporate partner | CS NAMIC |
| Federato | Corporate partner | CS |
| PLM | Corporate partner | CS |
| Risk and Insurance magazine | Media Partner | CS |
| Stemple Crites | Corporate partner | CS |
| Western Reserve Group | Corporate partner | CS |
Sources: 1 published list, read September 2026
CPCU Society In2Risk 2026 annual partners. Read September 27, 2026. CPCU Society (The Institutes) annual partners listed on the In2Risk 2026 partnership page; names read from logo alt text. Universities (Butler Lacy School, Columbia SPS, University of Olivet) left out.
Who backs The Institutes's peers, but not The Institutes
Companies named publicly by at least one of The Institutes's five peer societies, and not found in The Institutes's reviewed public records.
The outside view
The leading provider of risk management and insurance knowledge, credentialing, and education, best known as the body behind the CPCU designation and a broad suite of professional designations for the insurance industry.
- Authority
- Preserve
- Inward
- Operational
Their shape
The Citadel
Led from the center, built to endure.
The Citadel runs on clarity and decisiveness, its direction held by a strong center the whole organization moves behind. Its gift is speed and coherence, its challenge is leaning too heavily on the few at the middle.
Also reads toward The Legacy and The Guild.
Strengths
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