The professional service that insurance provides for the community needs to be rendered by trained staff. A new entrant is usually required to receive two to four years’ training in various areas of insurance before he can specialize in a particular field. Many large insurance companies provide in-house training courses to new entrants.
The Insurance Institute of Hong Kong started to organise a local diploma in 1988. In addition, courses for professional qualifications and continuous professional development covering the basic subjects of insurance, law and insurance principles are run by the Financial Services Development Centre of the Vocational Training Council. The courses are mainly based on the syllabus of the professional examinations and a lot of the local practices and cases have been incorporated.
In addition, the Financial Services Development Centre offers a number of short courses, part-time day and evening courses, specialist seminars and workshops for insurance personnel at various levels.
The following is the typical training paths of insurance personnel:
You may contact the following institutes for more details about the relevant training courses:
The Hong Kong Federation of Insurers![]() | 29/F, Sunshine Plaza, 353 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong |
![]() | 2520 1868 |
![]() | http://www.hkfi.org.hk |
The Insurance Institute of Hong Kong
![]() | Room 1705, Beverly House, 93-107 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong |
![]() | 2520 0098 |
![]() | http://www.iihk.org.hk |
Financial Services Development Centre, Vocational Training Council
![]() | 9/F, VTC Tower, 27 Wood Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong |
![]() | 2836 1850 |
![]() | http://www.peak.vtc.euu.hk |
IVE Admissions Office, The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education
![]() | Room 012, Academic Block, IVE (Chai Wan), 30 Shing Tai Road, Chai Wan |
![]() | 2897 6111 |
![]() | http://www.vtc.edu.hk/iveadmissions |
![]() | iveado@vtc.edu.hk |
Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong
![]() | Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong |
![]() | 2859 2466 |
![]() | http://www.hku.hk/statistics |
Hong Kong Securities Institute
![]() | Room 2403-08, 24/F, Wing On Centre, 111 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong |
![]() | 3120 6100 |
![]() | http://www.hksi.org |
Business Programmes Office, Lingnan University
![]() | 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories |
![]() | 2616 8750 |
![]() | http://www.ln.edu.hk |
Remarks: The course brochures / leaflets of respective institutions are also available at the Careers Information Centre of the Labour Department for the reference of interested parties.