Risk And Insurance - In-Depth Series

Bermuda In-Depth Series

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Bermuda's insurance market has just turned 60. What better way to celebrate than have local-based columnist Roger Crombie chronicle the rise and recent paroxysms of the most dynamic specialty marketplace in the 20th century?

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Past Installments

Bermuda In-Depth Series (Part 1): Lighting a Fire
2008-01-01

By Roger Crombie

At 60, Bermuda rightly deserves a place in the insurance and reinsurance pantheon, but the island has changed, as have markets and the world around it. Yet the "Bermuda Model" proves it has the legs to compete with younger domiciles, especially when it comes to generating catastrophe capacity.

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Bermuda In-Depth Series (Part 2): Big and Small Rolled Into One
2008-03-01

By Roger Crombie

Bermuda, just 22 square miles, is home to more than $130 billion in insurance capital. It has done so well because of the rare symbiosis between its government and the corporations it invites to do business on the island.

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Bermuda In-Depth Series (Part 3): Dominance in Dispute
2008-04-01

By Roger Crombie

Bermuda, once the reinsurance industry's unassailable leader, has seen its margin of leadership trimmed as other domiciles compete for premiums and the government looks to diversify the island's economy beyond carriers, reinsurers and captives.

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