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GCIE Focus: Lingnan University, Risk and Insurance Management (RIM) Programme

GCIE Focus: Lingnan University, Risk and Insurance Management (RIM) Programme

The Risk and Insurance Management (RIM) programme launched the second term of the 1999-2000 school year and is recognized by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF). Since 2016, the professional training of the curriculum has been further strengthened. The CII currently grants our programme an exemption of 130 credits towards its insurance qualifications. Our graduates are also qualified for the senior associate professional designation by the ANZIIF.

The programme equips students with fundamental knowledge of insurance, and risk management that meets the needs of the insurance and banking industry as well as the challenge of the changing business environment. Our graduates are well-prepared for managerial positions in insurance companies, banks, and related financial institutions. They work as insurance underwriters, claim officers, bankers, insurance product developers, insurance brokers, compliance officers, and risk managers.

Degrees offered: BBA (Hons) Risk and Insurance Management Programme

Course listings:
Students are required to do a number of core business courses before they can enter the BBA-RIM programme. These courses include Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Microeconomics for Business, Statistics for Business, Legal Aspects of Business, Managerial Accounting, and Operations Management. Once in the RIM programme, students are required to take seven RIM courses, which are:

RIM2200 Principles of Risk Management
RIM2201 Principles of Insurance
RIM2202 Fundamentals of Actuarial Science
RIM2250 Personal Risk and Financial Planning
RIM3350 Life and Health Insurance
RIM3351 Property and Liability Insurance
RIM3352 Reinsurance

Students can take additional RIM courses as free business electives.

Year Established: Second Term of the 1999-2000 school year

Program Size: 25 students 

Publications:
Comparative Ambiguity Aversion in Intertemporal Decisions, “The Journal of Risk and Insurance”, 2018 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jori.12253

Tail Risk Networks of Insurers Around the Globe: An Empirical Examination of Systemic Risk for GSIIs vs NonGSIIs, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jori.12296

The Ownership Complaint Gap: Mutual vs Stock Intermediaries, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-financial-and-quantitative-analysis/article/ownership-complaint-gap-mutual-versus-stock-intermediaries/9875694628E1FDB1CE2B6FA2D2CB9C63