Business: GEROVA Financial Group, Ltd., is an international reinsurance holding company, with operating insurance subsidiaries in Bermuda and Barbados. GEROVA underwrites insurance risks that it believes will produce favorable long-term returns on shareholder equity. GEROVA is a long-term investor in secondary market transactions for private equity investment portfolios, including bulk transactions where existing unlisted investment portfolios are acquired for publicly traded stock. Through reinsurance treaties with well-known counterparties, GEROVA also acquires highly liquid fixed income investment portfolios by providing reinsurance capacity to primary insurers that may have regulatory writing capacity pressure or other motivations to improve their balance sheet.