Allied World’s Bermuda office hosted 22 top students from St John’s University, New York.

Annually, the School of Risk Management of St John’s University’s Peter J. Tobin College of Business offers its top students the opportunity to learn by travelling to the major insurance markets of the world, including London, Zurich, Munich and Paris, to meet with international insurers, reinsurers and brokers.

This is the first year the group has visited Bermuda.

Students were selected based upon their academic merit and demonstrated potential for a successful career in the insurance industry.

“St John’s School of Risk Management is one of the top undergraduate insurance programmes in the United States,” said Paul Aviles, president of The Loss Executives Association. “LEA is a non-profit professional organisation that supports educational programmes for the insurance industry, and has long been a supporter of SRM’s global destination courses.

“These grant-funded courses, made possible by gifts from sponsor companies and donor organisations, provide students with experiential learning opportunities, through study abroad, that are reflective of the global insurance environment into which they will enter following graduation.”

Colm Singleton, head of Allied World’s Bermuda office, said his company was proud to have hosted these students, and provided them with an overview of Bermuda’s insurance market.

“Our goal was to give these students a key understanding of why Bermuda is essential to the global insurance industry,” Mr Singleton said. “The programme at Allied World’s office included presentations from our local team of insurance experts.”

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, through its subsidiaries, is a global provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions. They operate under the brand Allied World and have supported clients, cedents and trading partners with thoughtful service and meaningful coverages since 2001.

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