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Bermuda has attracted billions of dollars of new re/insurance capital over the past year, but the pace of the multiyear growth in third-party structures such as insurance-linked securities has slowed.
That is the view of analysts from ratings agency...
DATE: Feb 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Insurer Lancashire Holdings Ltd saw its full-year profit slide, as losses related to Covid-19 and natural catastrophes took their toll.
The Bermudian-based company said pretax profit fell to $5.9 million in 2020, down from $119.5 million in 2019.
Net...
DATE: Feb 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Veteran insurance executive Mitch Blaser has launched a new Bermudian-headquartered company with the aim of building one of world’s top global specialty insurers.
Mosaic, which will target complex risks and use cutting-edge technology to maximise eff...
DATE: Feb 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
European Union politicians are calling for any jurisdiction with a zero per cent tax rate on corporate profits – including Bermuda – to be included on the bloc’s tax blacklist.
But Curtis Dickinson says the body that manages the list has given no ind...
DATE: Feb 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Aon and Willis Towers Watson have announced the executive team that will lead them when the two global re/insurance brokers merge.
Gregory Case, Aon’s chief executive officer, will be CEO of the combined company, once the deal is finalised, the compa...
DATE: Jan 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
AkinovA (Bermuda) Ltd, an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of insurance risk, has been granted the first “insurance marketplace provider” licence by the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
The company becomes the first to graduate from th...
DATE: Jan 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Insurers must pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in disputed business interruption insurance claims after Britain’s Supreme Court ruled in favour of claimants today.
Bermudian-based Hiscox said its estimated 2020 Covid-19 loss estimate had climb...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Commercial re/insurer Convex Group Ltd has ramped up its total committed capital to $3.2 billion after a $500 million investment from US investment firm Sixth Street.
The Bermudian company, launched in April 2019 by industry veterans Stephen Catlin a...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Aon, an insurance broker with offices in Bermuda, has ended a business relationship with the Trump Organisation.
The company is one of several to turn their backs on US President Donald Trump’s enterprise since last week’s violent and deadly storming...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Britain has drafted an order-in-council laying out how it expects its Overseas Territories to set up publicly accessible registers detailing beneficial owners of companies.
However, Wendy Morton, a Foreign Office minister, said in the House of Common...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent