Actuarial and insurance recruitment, from Bermuda to Hong Kong
For insurers, reinsurers and consulting firms across the US, Canada, Bermuda and Asia, with life, annuity and reinsurance at our core. We talk to the market every day, so we know who will move, what it will take and what it will cost.
Actuarial hiring is not general recruitment. The best people are rarely looking, and a mis-hire in a valuation, pricing or Appointed Actuary seat stays expensive for years.
Life, annuity and reinsurance are our core, and we recruit across the actuarial, risk and finance teams around them: valuation, pricing, capital, modelling, hedging, reinsurance and M&A. Our clients are insurers, reinsurers and consulting firms. We know how a Bermuda annuity reinsurer differs from a US statutory reporting team, what IFRS 17 changed for Canadian insurers, and why the same person can be right for one team and wrong for the other.
We have been in this market since 2023 and we talk to candidates and hiring leaders every day, so our market reads are tested against real conversations.
Built one conversation at a time. Most of them are not looking, and we know which ones would move, and for what.
Who sits where, who is hiring and who is quietly rebuilding a team. A search starts from a list, not a keyword hunt.
United States, Canada, Bermuda and Asia, including cross-border moves, working alongside the employer's immigration advisers.
We speak with candidates and hiring leaders every day, so our read on pay, notice periods and who is ready to move stays current.
The teams we recruit for
A search process you can audit
Every stage ends with something on the record, so you can see where the search stands and why each name is on the shortlist.
Brief & market map
We start with the role as it really is: the team, the systems, the experience that matters and the compensation that will actually close it. Then we map the people in scope. On a specialist search that is a knowable list, not a LinkedIn keyword hunt.
Confidential approach
Targeted, discreet approaches to the people on that map. Passive candidates move for a specific reason, so we lead with the reason rather than the vacancy.
Technical assessment
We screen on what predicts success: the specific discipline (a valuation actuary is not a pricing actuary), technical depth, reporting and regulatory exposure, and whether the move stands up when the candidate talks it through at home.
Shortlist & interview
A short, honest shortlist with written assessments, compensation expectations and risk flags stated up front. We prepare both sides, and we tell you a candidate is likely to be counteroffered before you find out the hard way.
Offer & aftercare
We manage the offer, the resignation and the counteroffer conversation, then stay in touch through the first year. We do this for relocations too.
Selected placements
A few of the moves we've made across Bermuda, Canada and Asia.
An FSA and FCIA with US regulatory and IFRS 17 methodology experience who wanted to move to Bermuda, placed with a Bermuda reinsurer that needed VM-20, VM-22 and Bermuda EBS depth.
An FSA with deep variable annuity and indexed life hedging experience at a US insurer who wanted to move to Asia, placed with a Big 4 firm in Hong Kong that needed hedging expertise.
A life and annuity reinsurer building its pricing and M&A bench. We placed two actuaries into the team, including an FSA from pension risk transfer pricing who moved into transaction work.
An IFRS 17 specialist from a Big 4 firm in Hong Kong who wanted to move to Canada, placed with a global reinsurer in Toronto on its IFRS 17 work, first on contract and then permanently.
Market intelligence for actuaries and the people who hire them
What a move to Bermuda involves for actuaries: the work permit fast track, payroll tax and deductions, rents and schools, and your US or Canadian tax.
Typical base pay for US actuaries by credential, experience, sector and city, plus bonus targets and pay in Canada and Bermuda, from the CTS Pay Index.
Titles mean different things at insurers, reinsurers, consultancies and Big 4 firms. How the levels line up and what each pays in the US, Canada and Bermuda.
Let's talk about the role you can't fill
Whether you are hiring an actuary or quietly weighing up your next move, the first conversation is confidential and costs nothing.
