Corridors · Bermuda
Specialist recruitment for Bermuda’s reinsurance and ILS market
Bermuda is the world’s leading hub for reinsurance and insurance linked securities, built on exactly the reinsurance, catastrophe and actuarial expertise we specialise in. We support firms hiring for the Bermuda market through that depth and through our India based capability, rather than a local office.
How we support hiring for the Bermuda market: deep reinsurance and actuarial expertise, strength in catastrophe modelling and capital, and India based capability and reach. Genuine market understanding, not a local office.
Since 2014
specialist BFSI recruitment
80%
screening ratio, candidates we submit get interviewed
85%
joining ratio, offers that become joiners
Cat & capital
the disciplines the Bermuda market runs on
Market expertise, honestly framed
How does EliteRecruitments support hiring for the Bermuda reinsurance market?
Bermuda is one of the world’s leading reinsurance and insurance linked securities markets, and it runs on exactly the disciplines the firm specialises in: reinsurance, actuarial, catastrophe modelling and capital. EliteRecruitments supports firms hiring for the Bermuda market through that genuine expertise and through its India based capability and reach, rather than through a local Bermuda office. We are honest that Bermuda is a market we understand and can recruit for, drawing on our reinsurance and actuarial depth and our specialist networks, not one where we maintain a local presence. For firms that value a recruiter who genuinely understands the technical work of the Bermuda market, that depth is what we offer.
The Bermuda market
A global reinsurance and capital hub
Bermuda is one of the most important reinsurance and insurance linked securities markets in the world, home to many of the largest reinsurers and a deep concentration of catastrophe, capital and specialty expertise. The work done there is highly technical, drawing on reinsurance underwriting, actuarial science, catastrophe modelling and sophisticated capital and risk management. The talent pools are small and specialised, and the people who can do this work well are among the most sought after in the industry. It is, in other words, a market defined by exactly the kind of technical depth the firm specialises in.
Bermuda’s distinctive edge is its place at the centre of alternative capital. It is the global home of insurance linked securities, catastrophe bonds and the alternative reinsurance capital that now sits alongside traditional reinsurance. The firm does not recruit, for example, catastrophe bond traders, but these markets drive intense demand for the actuarial, catastrophe modelling, capital and risk specialists it does recruit. That is the connection that makes Bermuda directly relevant to our expertise.
What we recruit for the Bermuda market
The specialist roles we can support
For the Bermuda market, we support hiring in the disciplines it runs on. This connects most closely to our Reinsurance page, which covers the technical depth of this market, and to our Catastrophe Modelling and Actuarial function pages.
Reinsurance
The technical heart of the Bermuda market: pricing, reserving, capital and the specialists who run reinsurance work.
Reinsurance pageActuarial
Pricing, reserving and capital, the actuarial disciplines that reinsurance and ILS work depends on.
Actuarial practiceCatastrophe Modelling
The modellers who understand and price catastrophe risk, central to reinsurance and insurance linked securities.
Catastrophe ModellingUnderwriting
Reinsurance underwriting and the specialty disciplines around it.
Underwriting and ClaimsRisk and Analytics
The risk and analytics specialists that reinsurance and insurance linked securities work relies on.
Risk and Financial AdvisoryThe firms active in this market are among the most technically sophisticated in the industry: global reinsurers, insurance linked securities managers, and the specialist underwriting, actuarial and capital teams that support them. They hire for exactly the disciplines we know best, which is what lets us help even without a local presence. Where firms supporting the Bermuda market build or scale teams in India, our Global Capability Centres page and India page are directly relevant.
Reinsurance depth and India capability
Genuine expertise, with India reach behind it
What we bring to the Bermuda market is genuine expertise in its core disciplines and the reach of our India based capability. Reinsurance and actuarial work are among the firm’s deepest specialisms, and a growing share of reinsurance support work, including for the Bermuda market, is delivered from India. That means we can help firms find specialist reinsurance and actuarial talent, and build the India based teams and capability centres that increasingly support reinsurance work, even though we do not maintain a local Bermuda office. It is an honest offer: deep understanding of the work, and real reach, rather than a local presence we do not have.
The Bermuda related work that comes to India is exactly what the firm recruits for: catastrophe modelling, exposure management, and actuarial and capital modelling support. That specific overlap, between the reinsurance work increasingly supported from India and what the firm recruits, is what stands behind our offer.
Our Reinsurance page covers this market’s disciplines in depth And our Global Capability Centres page covers the India capability story
The future of the Bermuda market
The forces shaping the Bermuda market, alternative capital and insurance linked securities, climate and catastrophe risk, and ever more sophisticated capital modelling, all point to growing demand for catastrophe, actuarial and capital specialists, including the India based teams that increasingly support this work.
Why firms work with us here
Completely honest about what we are
Firms work with us for the Bermuda market because we genuinely understand its technical disciplines, because we can reach specialist reinsurance and actuarial talent including from India, and because we are completely honest about what we are: a specialist in this work, not a local Bermuda agency. That honesty and that depth are why our placements last. We screen at an 80 per cent rate, our candidates join at an 85 per cent rate, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees because a placement left early, backed by our 90 day replacement guarantee.
Founder led
A founder involved where it matters
EliteRecruitments is led by its founder, Shagun Gupta, who built the firm on the actuarial and risk disciplines the reinsurance world relies on and stays closely involved in senior and technically demanding mandates. For a firm hiring for the Bermuda market, that means dealing with a firm whose founder understands the technical heart of the work.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
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If you are hiring specialist reinsurance, actuarial or catastrophe talent for the Bermuda market, or building an India team to support reinsurance work, we offer genuine expertise in exactly these disciplines.
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