College students attend actuaries’ seminar | Business - Royal Gazette

Four Bermuda College students, and a professor at the institution, joined 300 actuaries and technical staff at a reinsurance seminar to learn about the most relevant issues facing the property-casualty re/insurance industries by Business Staff.

Insurance opportunities: four Bermuda College students attended an actuaries' seminar
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The associate degree students – Jordan DeShields and Atiya Furqan, actuarial science, and Nisha Smith and Ken-nie Trott, business – along with mathematics professor, Ali Arouzi, were guests at the Casualty Actuary Society’s seminar on reinsurance held at the Fairmont Southampton hotel.

Students were matched with mentors to discuss factors affecting the liability industry from an actuarial perspective. They were exposed to a day in the life of an actuary, with a focus on either pricing or establishing reserves...

The seminar visit marked the first time BC students were invited to the CAS seminar, which is generally geared more towards university students interested in the reinsurance and actuarial fields. 
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Source: Royal Gazette