Comment, Analysis & Research

02/20/2015

A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Isosceles Insurance Ltd.

A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ (Good) and the issuer credit rating of “bbb+” of Isosceles Insurance Ltd. (Isosceles) (Bermuda). The outlook for both ratings is stable.

02/13/2015

Mapped: The world's biggest tax havens

After the news that HSBC's Swiss private banking arm helped customers evade millions of pounds in tax, the news that Switzerland is the world's biggest tax haven will be unsurprising.

02/09/2015

Finance job increases are expected - Geoff Cook

While there has been a slight fall since the previous Business Tendency Survey, the picture remains positive with 98% of respondents being either more than or equally as optimistic as they were three months previously.

01/28/2015

Bermuda’s Islamic insurance opportunity

It accounts for only one per cent of global assets today, but Islamic finance is growing fast and it offers an interesting alternative to the way the financial sector operates across much of the world.

01/21/2015

PwC launches 18th Global CEO Survey results in Davos, Switzerland

Fewer CEOs than last year think global economic growth will improve over the next 12 months, though confidence in their ability to achieve revenue growth in their own companies remains stable, say the more than 1,300 CEOs interviewed in PwC's 18th An

01/16/2015

Paradigm Shift - Collateralised Reinsurance

Justin Wallen, Managing Director of the Hexagon PCC Group in Guernsey, examines the trends currently emerging from the January 1, 2015 renewal season for collateralised reinsurance from his perspective as a transformer cell manager.