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For the year ending December 31, 2015 No firework celebrations are in order for global equities markets at the end of 2015. The S&P Global Stock Index was down 0.84 per cent on the year whilst the S&P US 500 Index was up a slight 1.37 per cent. In re...

Squeezed investment returns in the ultra-low interest-rate environment will be one of the major operating challenges facing property and casualty (P&C) insurers in the year ahead, according to credit rating agency Fitch. Investment yields in insurers...

The financial services industry in Bermuda had foreign portfolio holdings of more than half-a-trillion dollars last year. At $516 billion, that was up 16 per cent on 2013. While the Island does not feature in the world’s top ten places with the large...

Tomorrow we will get the Federal Reserve’s decision on whether or not they will raise the Fed Funds rate. The market has been stewing over a rate rise for what seems like an eternity. I think they will move and the market seems to agree, with the Fed...

For the week ending December 11, 2015 Intra-day moves in equities markets last week could be characterised as “see-saw” each day, but ending the week decidedly negative. For the five days to December 11, the S&P Global 1200 Index was down 3.42 per ce...

This week the US Federal Reserve looks like it might finally do what is has not done for nine years — raise interest rates. The last time the Fed ticked its benchmark rate higher was in late 2006. In mid-2007, however, America’s central bank did an a...

For the week ending December 4, 2015 The interplay of markets and central bank agendas created volatile moves in all financial assets during the week, both on the upside and downside, as market expectations were not met. On Thursday, Mario Draghi, th...

Week ending November 27, 2015 All eyes are on the Fed so the slew of US economic data that came out last week takes on considerable importance with respect to whether the Fed raises short-term interest rates or not. Third-quarter GDP was revised to...

A firm with two Bermudian founders is set to propose a multibillion-dollar infrastructure plan to the Government. Urban Maximum Industries, Inc (UMI), founded by Craig Looby and Arthur Brangman, wants to build a new Causeway and bridge in an initial ...

The investment community is coming to grips with the effects from the horrific attacks in Paris. These abhorrent actions should not be callously dismissed and retribution is being dealt with as we speak. But what of the financial and market effects? ...

Week ending November 6, 2015 Our strategy worked really well last week with the performance on the Global Equities fund about 150 basis points ahead of the S&P 1200 Global Index and the Dividend Income approximately 100 basis points ahead of the same...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Athene Holding Ltd, the annuity provider tied to Apollo Global Management LLC, hired Michael Solf to oversee asset-management strategy at its new Germany operation. Solf was named chief investment officer in the r...