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XL Group is to acquire a 20 per cent stake in Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd (MIBL), an insurance broker serving rural and semi-urban India. The move will enable XL, which trades as XL Catlin, to support greater insurance penetration in a developing ...

Executives from four Bermuda life reinsurance companies will talk about their growing industry at the prestigious Society of Actuaries (SOA) Annual Meeting in Boston this week. On today’s panel discussion entitled “Life Reinsurance in Bermuda”, are ...

Dear Dave, What is your opinion of buying a vacation home, then renting it out when you’re not there? — J.P. Dear J.P., I see nothing wrong with it, as long as you’re buying with cash and you’re also debt-free. A vacation home is a wonderful “extra” ...

Timothy Kikuvi emerged as the winner of a prize worth $2,500 in a Bermuda Stock Exchange-sponsored quiz to mark World Investor Week. Entrants in the BSX WIW Quiz Challenge were invited to answer six questions embedded in a series of investment-relate...

It was human brain power that was tested in a debate on the future of artificial intelligence in the investment world. At the second World Alternative Investment Summit Bermuda, trading exports Michael Murphy and Jon Najarian took opposing sides on t...

Centaur Fund Services (Bermuda) Ltd has appointed IC Condat as its head of insurance-linked securities. Speaking about his appointment with the independent fund administrator, Mr Condat said: “The ever growing interest and appetite in the ILS asset c...

Reinsurers’ earnings for the year have probably already been wiped out by industry catastrophe losses of more than $100 billion — and their capital could also be hit. That is the view of analysts at S&P Global Ratings, who believe that an improvement...

Shares of Argus Group Holdings Ltd jumped 6.1 per cent in Bermuda Stock Exchange trading. The insurer gained 23 cents to close the week on $4 as 1,500 of its shares changed hands. Fellow insurer BF&M Ltd also traded, with its shares inching lower by ...

The value of catastrophe bonds and ILS issued this year stood at a record $10.64 billion up to the end of last month. While the third quarter failed to reach $1 billion of issued cat bonds and ILS for only the second time in five years, the addition ...

XL Catlin’s insurance operations has launched Private Clients, a suite of coverages specifically designed to address the complex insurance needs of ultra high net worth individuals and their families. Only available through a panel of specialist priv...