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World leaders in the reinsurance business are set to descend on Bermuda for a major conference in November. ILS Bermuda Convergence 2015 is expected to attract more than 300 delegates from around the globe. Greg Wojciechowski, chief executive officer...

Reinsurance prices declined in the July 1 renewals, but at a moderating rate. That is the finding of Guy Carpenter & Company in its latest briefing on renewal pricing. It noted that the moderating declines were especially seen in programmes covering ...

A Bermuda-based Chinese insurance company is to launch a new healthcare insurance product. TOP Reinsurance Ltd will help structure the deal for the Chinese market and a new reinsurance vehicle will be established on the Island by Guangdong Wing Yue I...

A Bermudian insurance industry veteran has been promoted to a top post at Sun Life. Trenton Fubler, who has been with the company for 12 years, is now associate director of operations at the firm. Mr Fubler, who started off as a customer service repr...

An end-of-summer party is to be held by the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies (BFIS) as the finale to a series of networking events for students and professionals in the industry. BFIS will hold the party on Wednesday, August 12. The event fol...

Bermuda must wait a few more weeks to find out whether its insurance regulation will be deemed equivalent to the new standards being introduced in the European Union. Legislative changes passed by the Senate last week addressed the recommendations of...

Michael Kitces could drive a hot new car, work out in a high-end gym, and relax in a sprawling house. He can afford it. He just doesn’t want it. What does the 37-year-old financial planner, a partner and director of research at Pinnacle Advisory Gro...

DAVE SAYS by Dave Ramsey Dear Dave, I own a rental property that brings in enough to pay the taxes and insurance with a little left over. Recently, I found out that my tenant, who just signed a new two-year lease, is subleasing the property for the s...

Utility conservation: The Bermuda Tightwad Gazette Continuing Series Last week Moneywise started a review of utility costs and what the individual family can do to control them. We need electricity. Yes, we could do without it — in the short term, bu...

Financial advisers say clients often overestimate their tolerance for risk. But data suggest it’s really financial advisers who become more nervous than they expected when markets become volatile. Advisers often underestimate their own stomach for r...

Bermuda’s banks are prepared to lend customers cash — but on tougher terms than the boom years in the run up to the 2008 financial crash. Bank of Butterfield chairman and CEO Brendan McDonagh said: “There is no doubt that following the global financi...