As the company gained more confidence in the insurance market here, it took further steps and, in 2000, became the first, and to this day, the only licensed underwriter in Fiji to be publically listed on the South Pacific Stock Exchange. This effectively means that any Fijian can become part owner of an insurance company by buying shares in FijiCare on the Stock Exchange.
An intriguing aspect of the recent wave of productivity acceleration is that US businesses and workers appear to have benefited more from the recent advances in information technology than their counterparts in Europe or Japan. Those countries, of course, have also participated in this wave of invention and innovation, but they appear to have been slower to exploit it.