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The introduction of affordable healthcare in the US is a shot in the arm for captive insurance in Bermuda. Now the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) is to hold a special webinar to highlight the Island’s expanding healthcare insurance market....

Two legal firms are to join forces, The Royal Gazette can reveal. International offshore law firm Harneys will next month merge with Bermuda lawyers Hurrion & Associates under the Harneys Bermuda banner. And Hurrion & Associates founder Sarah-Jane Hu...

Strategy meeting held on September 21, 2015 The US market opened very strongly this morning following weak starts in the Pacific and Europe. This follows on from Friday’s dramatic sell-off, which left global stock indices virtually flat last week. Fr...

Major tech companies could muscle in on reinsurance and insurance, PwC chief Arthur Wightman has predicted. Mr Wightman, at the annual Monte Carlo Rendez-vous gathering for the industry, was speaking in the wake of a PwC report on mega deals and merg...

Italian investment giant Exor plans to propel Bermuda reinsurance firm PartnerRe into the top tier. Exor CEO John Elkann, part of the billionaire Agnelli family that runs the company, said he hoped to put PartnerRe in the top four reinsurers in the w...

Week 7 of the Bermuda 14-week plan to dramatically improve your financial lifestyle. The Bermuda 14-week plan is an individualised financial review plan series adapted for our unique Bermuda financial environment from an original article by Libby Kan...

Dear Dave, I started my own small bakery from home two years ago, providing wedding and specialty cakes. I just found out I’m pregnant, and while my husband and I are really excited about the baby, we’re worried about how we’ll handle things after th...

The helmsman of America’s Cup holders Oracle Team USA is to steer a course for a major reinsurance conference. Jimmy Spithill, a two-time winner of the coveted sailing trophy, will be the keynote speaker at the Bermuda Convergence 2015 event next mon...

Dear Sir, I read with interest your article on the presentation made by Jason Hayward as regards income inequality in Bermuda. I agree with Mr Hayward that education and training are vital in matching the skill set of the Bermuda workforce with the s...

New player Hamilton Re will enter the property insurance market, CEO Kathleen Reardon said yesterday. Ms Reardon added that the firm would also join the facultative market — a form of reinsurance in which a contract is negotiated for a specific insur...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Jay Fishman, who built New York-based Travelers Cos into one of the world’s biggest insurers, lamented that disparities in tax rates are pushing established rivals and industry newcomers outside the US. Over the past 15 years o...

Reflecting what it calls a “notoriously deteriorating soft market”, Qatar Re’s half-year profit fell by about $1.5 million, year-on-year, to $13.4 million. The drop came despite the company boosting its gross written premiums by 42 per cent to $463.6...