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Established by leaders of Bermuda's insurance industry in 1996, BFIS is tasked with ensuring that Bermudian students are provided with opportunities to attain the education and training necessary for careers in Bermuda's insurance industry.

This is being achieved through scholarships, mentoring, internships and career guidance.

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Interested in a career in Bermuda’s thriving insurance and reinsurance industry?
The Bermuda Foundation For Insurance Studies (BFIS) provides scholarships and advice to students interested in careers in insurance. The office, located across from the bus terminal in Hamilton welcomes anyone wanting to find out more about careers in insurance, gives advice on the education and skills are needed by the industry, and provides interested students with an entry-point into the insurance sector.

Need help paying for college?
BFIS offers over 10 scholarships a year ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 a year for students interested in careers in the insurance sector. Over a hundred students have been awarded BFIS scholarships and twenty BFIS scholars are currently studying for their degrees in universities in the US, Canada and England.

What subjects do you want to study?
The preferred subjects which BFIS offers scholarships for are Insurance, Risk Management, Finance, Economics, Actuarial Science, Math, Accounting, Corporate Law and Computer Science, but we do currently have students studying Commerce, Business and Applied Statistics.

Need someone to advise you?
The BFIS Mentor Network programme matches students planning or starting a career in insurance with people already established in the industry. Networking lunches and other events for students are held during summer and Christmas vacations.

Want to learn more about the insurance industry?
The BFIS ‘Intro-to-Insurance’ Summer Programmes take place over two to three weeks. Twelve students, divided into three teams, experience in depth the insurance markets in either London, Bermuda or Chicago. These are structured programmes, which include meetings, presentations and work shadowing with insurance professionals, open to undergraduate students who have completed either their Junior or Senior year of university.

Want to know a bit more about the different careers in insurance?
BFIS makes annual presentations to high-school and Bermuda College students to show them the great career opportunities in Bermuda’s insurance sector. The BFIS “Set To Succeed” careers video is one of the tools we use, together with question and answer sessions with BFIS alumni who are now working in insurance.

Want to find summer or entry-level employment in insurance?
For insurance-focused students and graduates, BFIS can help by posting their resumes on the BFIS website for insurance companies to view. We ask students to input their information into our Student Resume Template and then email it to us.

Want help?
If you have searched our website and haven’t found the information you are looking for, send us an email us.

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