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Dear Dave, My husband and I are debt-free except for our home, and we have about $100,000 in savings. Recently, one of our daughters was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. We’re worried about this, and the fact that she and her sister are both teenage ...

Prices for some reinsurance policies have plummeted to their lowest for nearly 25 years, according to a global brokers. Areas like UK property catastrophe reinsurance are priced around the same as they were in the 1990s. And a third straight year of ...

The world’s largest reinsurer, Munich Re, has added another Bermuda sidecar to its roster after $75 million of participating notes from a special purpose insurer called Eden Re I was listed. The move follows a similar $290 million Eden Re II Ltd vehi...

Quite often deciding whether to buy life insurance is one of the most important decisions you will make in your financial life. However, it is a decision that most of us will put off until something happens that hits close to home. That’s really not ...

Holidays are for happiness. There you are in the aftermath, sitting amid the remnants of wrappings, fading but still twinkling lights, wonderful food, and memories of Christmas. You may have acquired things you don’t need, given things that others di...

By Jonathan Kent Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd chief executive officer Chris O’Kane has this month sold more than 26,000 shares — worth around $1.15 million — of the company he runs. Mr O’Kane exercised options to buy the shares in the Bermuda-based r...

News of nearly half a billion dollars of new alternative reinsurance capital emerged yesterday, as the flow of third-party money into the industry continues unabated. The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) announced the listing of $290 million worth of not...

Bermuda has launched a fresh charm offensive to target the potentially lucrative insurance market in Latin America. And the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) will next year launch a roadshow in the region to highlight the business advantages ...

Third Point Reinsurance Ltd is winding down its catastrophe reinsurance fund and diverting resources to Hiscox’s Kiskadee insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform, in changes announced to the relationship between the two Bermuda firms. Third Point ...

Bermuda Investment Advisory Services Ltd (BIAS) has received a double accolade from magazines covering the financial services industry. Captive Review magazine awarded BIAS the US Captive Services Award 2014 for Innovation in Investment Management. S...

Global reinsurer Swiss Re has estimated that the insurance industry was hit by $34 billion in catastrophe losses in 2014 — a lower-than-normal tally in recent years — and $11 billion less than in 2013. The Zurich-based company said its preliminary es...