Founded in 1994, INSAM is a not-for-profit foundation registered with Geneva's Department of Finance, and authorised as an Institute of Higher Learning by the Geneva Department of Education.

INSAM provides knowledge which participants can put to work directly in their personal or professional lives, in areas like personal finance and legal affairs, creating and running their own business, or tax planning.

INSAM's knowledge and experience is shared in three ways:

	occasional seminars, typically a Saturday or one or two evenings.  They are designed to provide the right mix of academic and practical content to meet the purpose of the participants.  Each seminar is self-standing, although some may build on material from previous courses;
	personal advising by INSAM's President or another specialist on such topics as entrepreneurship, investments and retirement;
	a regular broadcast on Radio 74 (88.8 MHz) at 09.10 and 18.10 every Sunday.

INSAM aims at filling the gap between university education and management training.  Our instructors and advisers are made up entirely of practitioners and advisers in their respective fields of excellence.

The philosophy of INSAM is to provide as much self-reliance as possible to seminar participants in their decision-making.

INSAM seminars and workshops are conducted in English, but participants may always express themselves in French. Personal advising can be conducted in English or French.