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Jill Husbands, the winner of the inaugural Fred Reiss Lifetime Achievement Award, said she feels honoured to have been chosen. And she hopes that young people seeking an insurance-sector career will look beyond the big name insurers and reinsurers an...

Statistics show that some 15 million people in the US don’t work the typical nine-to-five. These employees (or shift workers), who punch in for graveyard or rotating shifts, are more prone to numerous health hazards, from heart attacks to obesity, an...

A groundbreaking Supreme Court judgment could pave the way for some criminal suspects who have been held in custody while awaiting trial to receive legal aid. Last month Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled for the first time that being in custody was a r...

The registration for a major conference on insurance-linked securities has opened. And the ILS Convergence conference, has a new venue — the renovated Trudeau ballroom and terrace at the Hamilton Princess. Greg Wojciechowski, the ILS Bermuda chairman...

Dear Dave, I’m 19 years old, and I’m putting myself through college debt-free. I usually work part time during the semesters, but right now I’m working full time. I have about $2,000 in mutual funds, and I was wondering if I should add my full-time w...

A reader asks: “Is it possible to get a 10 per cent return in a balanced fund [see last week’s article] in this environment? I once read that using the Rule of 72, with a 10 per cent return, my retirement portfolio would double in value in a little o...

Dear Sir, Now that the sale of former Harrington Sound Post Office is imminent, perhaps the Postmaster-General will be able to employ a replacement post person for the route HS01/2. BN, HS01

The Bermuda Government’s bid to sell off the Harrington Sound Post Office goes before legislators to debate in today’s House of Assembly. The building and its property could sell for $700,000 according to its sale and purchase agreement. The discussi...

Caribbean-based multinational financial services firm Sagicor is next week set to back a move to Bermuda. Shareholders of the Barbadian company will vote next Wednesday on redomiciling after the firm was hit by the downgrading of Barbados’s sovereign...

A global total of $72 billion in gross written premiums was written last year by members of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers. The survey for 2015 included 19 of the 22 Abir members and also recorded net income of $8.7 billion. The 1...

The Premier will today ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Dunkley has been invited to perform the traditional afternoon ceremony at the world-famous exchange after he takes part in a major conference on disaster recovery in...

Bermuda’s overburdened care home system has “collapsed”, leaving many elderly Bermudians “virtually refugees in their own country”, a seniors advocate has claimed. Carol Everson, a welfare caseworker for the Bermuda Legion, called for a drastic over...