Somers Limited is a London based corporate and institutional stockbroking group in which Somers Limited has a 75% interest. Merrion Capital is an independent Irish financial services firm in which Somers Limited has a 21.8% equity interest. Merrion has a number of revenue streams including Private Clients, Retail Asset Management, Fixed Income, Corporate Finance and Merrion Investment Management (“MIM”). The two main business lines are MIM (institutional asset management) and Private Clients/Stockbroking. West Hamilton Holdings Limited is a Bermuda Stock Exchange listed property investment and management company with property assets in Bermuda and in which Somers has a 57.1% equity interest. Other
Phoenix Islands group is uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton. The United States unincorporated territories of Baker Island and Howland Island are often considered northerly outliers of the group, in the geographical sense. Howland and Baker are statistically grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands, however. The United States previously claimed all the Phoenix Islands under the Guano Islands Act. The Treaty of Tarawa released all US claims to the Phoenix Islands, excluding Baker and Howland. At various times, the islands were considered part of the Gilbert group (once also known as "Kingsmill"). The name "Phoenix" for this group