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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd hired senior underwriting managers for a new Dubai reinsurance operation as the company seeks expansion in the Middle East and Africa. Peter Thompson, formerly of Assicurazioni Generali SpA, was ass...

Alternative reinsurance capital increased by 12 per cent last year, a rate far ahead of traditional reinsurance capital. The upward trend has taken the alternative capital total to $72 billion at the end of 2015. That’s up $6 billion year-on-year. Si...

Lorraine Seib has been appointed global head of excess casualty at Aspen Insurance. She was previously president of global excess casualty insurance at XL Catlin, and has more than 35 years of experience in the sector. Ms Seib will be based in New Yo...

Bermuda will use a major US conference to continue to differentiate the island from other offshore jurisdictions in the wake of the “Panama Papers” controversy that focused global attention on international financial centres. Ross Webber, chairman of...

Craig Landi has been appointed president of Argo Pro US, part of Argo Group International Holdings. Mr Landi has previously held leadership roles at Arch and Ace, and a number of other insurance companies. He has joined Argo from Freedom Specialty In...

Dear Dave, How do you decide whether or not to sell collectible memorabilia when you’re getting out of debt? WILLIAM Dear William, In most cases, there’s a pretty wide spectrum of emotional involvement when it comes to this sort of stuff. I mean, the...

The latest data dump leaks, the largest in history, were released this week by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The Panama Papers, so called as the leaks came from a Panamanian law firm, implicated 140 very high-level polit...

Bermudian-based Hamilton Insurance Group has added a new jobs page to its website. And the firm is highlighting openings for new hires with expertise in analytics and data science. Jobs listed on the new page include a software developer’s post at Ha...

“Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t Ain’t nothin’ changed for, me ‘cept the year it is I think I have to send you a reminder, here it is” — Jay Z There are many in Bermuda and indeed worldwide who attempt to say that there is no disparity between the...

ZURICH (Bloomberg) — Reinsurance prices will continue to fall this year as competition for customers from hedge funds and other sources of alternative capital send premiums to their lowest in four years, according to Swiss Re. “Price reductions have ...

Bermudian-based insurer and reinsurer Iris Re has listed a new class of shares on the Bermuda Stock Exchange. Iris said the new shares, all non-voting preferred shares, will allow qualified investors to take part in its specialised insurance programm...

Just as Britain raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sanders’s demands for a 50 per cent increase in minimum pay keep winning him votes in the United States, some politicians in one of the world’s most socialist countries, Sweden, are in favour of g...