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A further 25 influential women in insurance and reinsurance in Bermuda have been identified in the latest edition of the trade magazine Bermuda: Re+ILS. For the past three years the magazine has highlighted some of the most successful female executiv...

Having looked at how stamp duty can sometimes be avoided last week, this week we discuss the Primary Family Homestead Exemption Certificate application. Various readers informed me that the PFHC application process has been taking anywhere from 18 mo...

Dear Dave, We’re following your plan, and we’re in the middle of paying off all our debts except for the house. My wife just learnt she’ll be losing her job at the end of the year. She’s a project manager for a software company in Seattle, and she wi...

Nicolas Bardon has been appointed as a partner of JLT Re in Bermuda. He was formerly with Bermudian-based Somerset Holdings, a reinsurance intermediary, where had led business development and production. Before that he worked at Citigroup and Bank of...

A number of workshops are being held to explain the importance of life insurance and its many uses. There will be some key issues addressed during the workshops, which are being put on by Colonial Life as it marks Life Insurance Awareness Month next ...

Insurers will be counting the costs incurred by severe weather in the US and other parts of the world in July. Prolonged rainfall resulted in economic damage estimated at $10 million in China during the month. While in Turkey, insurers are braced for...

White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd is aiming to buy back up to half of a million of its common shares, valued at more than $400 million, in a “modified Dutch auction”. Through the self-tender offer, the Bermudian firm will give shareholders the oppo...

Seven Bermudian students have been rewarded with a legal education award from Conyers Dill & Pearman. This award is given annually to students who want to pursue a legal career and is normally given to between two and four students each year. But th...

Jonathan Kent, Business Editor Reinsurers are now twice as likely to report an underwriting loss as they were in 2012. That is the view of analysts at Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings, who say falling prices for reinsurance will likely result in more...

Financial markets are showing some signs of volatility these days after exceptionally low indicators since the start of the 2017. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or Vix, is at its highest level this year. The VVix Index, which me...

Did everyone have a reality check after Cup Match? An exciting array of great reader questions arrived at my inbox in the last couple of weeks. So! This week we focus on a discussion of the Bermuda Primary Family Homestead Certificate. Reader: “We ar...

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is worried about a bond bubble. “By any measure, real long-term interest rates are much too low and therefore unsustainable,” Greenspan said in a recent interview. “When they move higher they are likely ...