ASEAN Professional Insurance Diploma (APID)

Professional Qualification

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | 22 & 23 Apr 2024 (Module 1)
Registration Deadline: 21 Apr 2024
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | 7 Oct 2024 (Module 2)
Registration Deadline: 5 Oct 2024

This professional qualification is recognised by the ASEAN Insurance Council and has been jointly developed and marketed by five ASEAN Training and Academic Institutions. The qualification comprises of 5 micro-certifications from institutes across the ASEAN region:

  • Indonesia: Insurance Council of Indonesia (DAI)
  • Malaysia: The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
  • Philippines: Insurance Institute for Asia and the Pacific (IIAP)
  • Singapore: Singapore College of Insurance (SCI)
  • Thailand: Thailand Insurance Institute (TII)

Recommended For

Those who have completed any of the following certification/diploma:

  • Associateship of Malaysian Insurance Institute level 2 awarded by MII
  • Advanced Diploma in General Insurance and Risk Management awarded by SCI
  • AAIK (Level 7) Professional Certification
  • IIAP Associateship Program awarded by IIAP
  • Diploma in General Insurance awarded by TII

ASEAN Professional Insurance Diploma (APID)

Programme Modules
Programme Structure
Dates
Meet The Expert

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Programme Modules

Learning Outcome

Module 1:

  • Discuss the insurance laws, acts, regulations, codes, and guidelines relevant to underwriting & claims in Malaysia
  • Explain the general insurance market landscape in Malaysia
  • Analyse insurance product, service development, and positioning in the Malaysia insurance markets
  • Examine the key influences of the regulatory and commercial environment on underwriting in the Malaysia insurance
    markets
  • Explain reinsurance practices in Malaysia
  • Analyse the key aspects of underwriting policies and practices in Malaysia
  • Evaluate the key aspects of claims handling pertaining to personal lines, material damage, business interruption, third-party liability, and financial lines in Malaysia
  • Analyse claims reserving, complaint handling, and fraudulent claims handling in the Malaysia insurance markets
  • Analyse the impact of technology and disruptors on underwriting and claims in Malaysia

 

Module 2

  • Discuss compliance issues
  • Discuss the Malaysian regulatory guidelines on Environmental risk management for insurers including its scope and applications to the insurance industry

Programme Structure

Micro – Cert Malaysia Module 1 Micro – Cert Malaysia Module 2
The duration of the module is two (2) days.
Classes will be live online instructor-led sessions.
The duration of the module is half (0.5) a day.
Classes will be live online instructor-led sessions.

Dates

Meet The Expert

Module 1

Dr. Kwong Chee Keung
MBA, FMII, FCII, Chartered Insurer
Kwong has close to 30 years of working experience in the Malaysian non-life
insurance industry. He embarked on his insurance career in the marketing
function and later moved to a technical role encompassing underwriting
and claim functions. He is now heading the branch underwriting
department of a large foreign-owned non-life insurance company in Kuala
Lumpur. He is also an active Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII) seasonal
trainer.
Kwong completed his undergraduate study in Business Administration
(major in Finance) from the Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) in 1995. He later
completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2002 at the
Graduate School of Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He
earned his PhD from the Putra Business School, Universiti Putra Malaysia
(UPM) in 2020. In addition, he is presently a Fellow member of the Malaysian
Insurance Institute (MII), Singapore Insurance Institute (SII) and Chartered
Insurance Institute (CII).

 

Module 2

Azman Ismail has been in the takāful industry since 1985. He has provided
training, consultancy and sharīʿah advisory services in Malaysia, Singapore,
Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Brunei, Iran, Philippines and Bangladesh and
presented papers in Kuala Lumpur, Manama, New York, Tokyo, Brunei,
Singapore, Cairo, London, Milan, Taipei, Taroudant and Abu Dhabi. He was an
external lecturer for the Master in Islamic Banking and Finance (MIBF)
program at the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IIiBF), International
Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He was also a Course Consultant and
Member, Board of Studies at the Institute.
He has written and translated thirteen books (15 volumes) and has been
commissioned by the Institute for Islamic Banking and Finance (IBFIM) and
the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF). He has
also been consulted by the International Shari’ah Research Academy for
Islamic Finance (ISRA) and ISRA Consultancy Sdn Bhd. He was a Director for
Malaysia for the Life Underwriter Training Council (LUTC), Bethesda,
Maryland, USA. He was also a Member of the Information Panel,
AmanahRaya, the Public Trustee of Malaysia and is currently Sharīʿah
Adviser to several takāful operations in Malaysia and Singapore.