April 3, 2025
The small crowd in pastel polo shirts and sunglasses boarded the catamaran for an afternoon cruise on the Caribbean’s sapphire waters. Tucked under their drinks were napkins emblazoned with a slogan akin to a pickup line: “Let’s go beyond business …
August 2, 2023
Consilium, the London-based re/insurance brokerage arm of Aventum Group, has been granted a license by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA). Consilium’s focus in the region will be in the financial and professional lines, construction and commercial property sectors, drawing …
August 19, 2022
The owners of one of the oldest insurance agencies in Texas must have felt pretty surprised when they were named in a federal lawsuit brought by an AIG company, alleging the agency was part of an elaborate fraud that forged …
November 15, 2018
Many U.S. multinational corporations have packed up or are choosing to open subsidiaries in low-tax, rather than no-tax, countries that are seen as more legitimate than the formerly popular island destinations of the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. They’re fleeing …
April 17, 2017
The Cayman Islands Insurance Industry saw a “buoyant” start to 2017, with eight new insurer licenses issued in the first quarter, which followed a strong year in 2016 when 39 insurer licenses were issued, said the Insurance Managers Association of …
November 7, 2016
Global Indemnity plc has completed its redomestication from Ireland to the Cayman Islands. As previously announced, the name of the new holding company is Global Indemnity Ltd. Global Indemnity Ltd. is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the …
June 22, 2016
Global Indemnity plc announced that its board of directors unanimously approved a plan to redomicile from Ireland to the Cayman Islands. Shareholders will be asked to vote in favor of completing the reorganization proposal at a special shareholders meeting. If …
January 13, 2016
Billionaire John Paulson’s New York hedge fund firm has shut an operation in Bermuda that had been targeted by a Democratic lawmaker as a tax shelter. Paulson’s venture, a reinsurer named PaCRe Ltd., has stopped writing new coverage, and its …
January 7, 2016
Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., which counts on hedge fund manager Dan Loeb to oversee its portfolio, fell below the price of its 2013 initial public offering after investments faltered. The reinsurer tumbled 2.3 percent to $12.49 at 4:04 p.m. in …
October 26, 2015
Greenlight Capital Re Ltd. posted its third-straight unprofitable quarter on losses in the investment portfolio overseen by hedge-fund manager David Einhorn. The net loss for the period ended Sept. 30 widened to $219.7 million, or $5.98 a share, from $51.8 …