1713 results returned for search: "" category "Business" author Jonathan Kent
Good food, friendly service and Bermudian staff out front dealing with customers — that is the formula that has enabled the group that owns the Flanagan’s restaurant to expand through a lingering recession.
Now Harbourside Holdings Ltd is preparing t...
DATE: May 23, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Local Business
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Randall & Quilter sees it Bermuda operation as the growth centre of its global business following its decision to redomicile to Bermuda from the UK nearly a year ago.
The group’s chief financial officer Tom Booth told The Royal Gazette that the compa...
DATE: May 21, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity soared in the first quarter, with the total value of deals done reaching $10.6 billion in Bermuda.
That represented an increase of $3.6 billion, or 51 percent from the first three months of last year, according t...
DATE: May 20, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
International Business
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Bermuda beat out competition from Switzerland to become the domicile of the first-ever African catastrophe insurance pool, Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons told MPs.
And it is anticipated that the risk pool, which initially has five signed...
DATE: May 19, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Bermuda beat out competition from Switzerland to become the domicile of the first-ever African catastrophe insurance pool, Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons told MPs today.
As reported yesterday on The Royal Gazette website yesterday, the A...
DATE: May 16, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
UK re/insurer Brit plc says its new Bermuda office had a successful start to 2014.
The office, which has set up specialise in underwriting excess workers’ compensation reinsurance and catastrophe risks, wrote $16 million of premium in the first quart...
DATE: May 15, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
The XL Re Broker Golf Outing serves as a reminder of the role that golf can play in nurturing long-standing business relationships.
The event celebrated its 20th anniversary last week. Some 60 business partners who have been doing business with XL Gr...
DATE: May 15, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
A catastrophe insurance pool to insure a group of African countries against drought has been set up in Bermuda.
Willis Group Holdings plc, a global broker and risk adviser, said today it had secured $55 million of index-based reinsurance capacity to ...
DATE: May 15, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Bermuda insurer Enstar Group plans to merge two of its Lloyd’s managing agencies next year, sources told a British trade publication.
Enstar, which specialises in acquiring and managing insurers and books of business that have gone into run-off (that...
DATE: May 14, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Watlington Waterworks Ltd saw their profits slide 7.2 percent to $1.76 million, as abundant rainfall contributed to the company’s weakest results in five years.
The Bermuda Stock Exchange-listed company provides potable water through its pipelines to...
DATE: May 13, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Local Business
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent