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The City of London and Bermuda should work together to grow the insurance-linked securities market, an expert said. Steve Evans, who owns the respected specialist online magazine Artemis, said that accusations by Inga Beale, the CEO of Lloyd’s of Lon...

Just because you are investing abroad does not mean you will get a better deal or a higher return. In fact, keeping your money “close to your chest” in your home jurisdiction is very often the safest option. Our Bermuda regulatory system includes man...

Dear Dave, My husband owns a small landscaping and masonry company. His profits over the last couple of years have been about $80,000 annually. We were wondering if we should be setting aside some retained earnings. KIM Dear Kim, Yes, all businesses ...

Bermuda yesterday hit back after the chief executive officer of Lloyd’s of London said Bermuda “stole” the insurance-linked securities market from the city. Ms Beale, speaking at an insurance industry conference in Germany earlier this week, said: “F...

The key to riding out a soft market in reinsurance is profitable growth, a top executive at Bermuda-based Qatar Re argues. And Luke Roden, head of ceded reinsurance and global head of catastrophe at Qatar Re, which redomiciled to Bermuda less than a ...

Regional economic and investment headwinds, together with softening trading conditions have impacted the performance of Qatar Insurance company during the first nine months of this year, but not enough to stop it boosting its profit for the period by...

Vehicles without the human touch could pose a future risk to the insurance industry, a legal expert in the field has warned. Richard Geddes said that pilotless drones, driverless cars and risks from cyber attacks on the technology that runs automated...

Understanding bonds, part 3 Companies, governments, individual investors need or want bonds; they are bought and sold every day by the billions of dollars. You now know what a bond looks like, what coupon (interest rate) it can pay, how much the fac...

Dear Dave, I’m 23, and I lost a good job a few days ago due to layoffs. My wife has been a stay-at-home mom with our ten-month-old daughter, and we have very little in the way of savings. What can we do to keep our heads above water? — Seth Dear Set...

Sandell Holdings Ltd, the parent company of a Bermuda reinsurer, has listed $53 million of shares on the Bermuda Stock Exchange. And after advising Sandell through the process, Estera and law firm Appleby are hopeful that more commercial insurers wil...

Reinsurance firm Somerset Re has raised it share capitalisation to $375 million, with help from a group of investors. Somerset Re said three strategic investors and a group of wealthy individual investors had put up capital. Somerset Re, formerly kno...

Insurance company BF&M Ltd wore its heart on its sleeve yesterday, and it was not alone. Hundreds of people joined the BF&M 20th Anniversary Breast Cancer Awareness Walk, helping to spread the word and boost the fundraising effort that during the pas...