About the Academy
Retained Academy is on-demand captive insurance education built for practitioners — risk managers, CFOs, insurance professionals, legal and compliance teams, and the boards that oversee them.
Most captive insurance education is either a vendor pitch or an academic abstraction. Retained Academy is neither. It is a structured, written curriculum that explains how captive programmes actually work — financially, operationally, and under regulatory scrutiny — so that the people responsible for them can make decisions with confidence and defend those decisions when challenged.
Built around a single conviction
The most expensive captive problems are the ones that weren't seen clearly enough, early enough. Our material translates complex insurance mechanics into decisions that executives, boards, and auditors can evaluate — held to a simple standard: can a CFO understand this in 30 seconds, and is the key risk visually obvious?
How it's organised
The curriculum spans eleven core modules — from fundamentals through formation, financial mechanics, regulation, tax, claims, lines of business, programme review, and exit — supported by a Reference Library of deeper-dive companions and four role-based learning paths. Read it front to back, or use it as a reference when a specific question lands on your desk.