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A $52 million share offering from Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund has pushed the rapidly expanding insurance-linked securities (ILS) instruments on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) beyond the $7 billion mark. A BSX press release stated the value...

June 18, 2013 Dear Sir, There is an absolute difference between tax avoidance and seeking a tax advantage. In the scheme of free enterprise seeking an international tax advantage is a market issue, much as seeking cheaper labour or better business or...

An upgrade in outlook from stable to positive has been given to Bermuda-based Lancashire Insurance Company Limited, along with Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Limited by ratings agency AM Best, which also affirmed the issuer credit rating (ICR) of ...

A British newspaper article said Prime Minister David Cameron could make Bermuda open up on taxes if it wanted to. "If Bermuda succeeds in undermining an attempted crackdown on tax havens, it's because our PM allowed it to happen," writes The Guardia...

A leading UK economist and columnist for the Financial Times has come to Bermuda’s defence in the growing tax avoidance debate. Under the headline “Don’t blame the havens tax dodging is everyone else’s fault”, John Kay writes that the week’s Group of...

The dreaded i-word was bound to come up, I suppose Mr Acting Editor. It was too good an opportunity for some to pass up on the opportunity to revive the issue of independence for Bermuda. I suppose too, that like clocks that have stopped ticking, it ...