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Bermuda reinsurer PartnerRe last night reported a $95.3 million profit for the fourth quarter and achieved investment gains despite an horrendous three-month period on the global financial markets.
The fourth-quarter performance allowed the company t...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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Financial expert John Mauldin suggests that those looking for an investment opportunity should hang onto their cash for the time being.
The prolific author and investment manager, who was in Bermuda last week to speak at the Chartered Financial Analy...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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All too often in these difficult times, it seems that companies have bad news to announce. Every day, we hear of falling profits, redundancies and downsizing.
How the bad news is relayed will have a large impact on how it is received by employees, sh...
DATE: Feb 02, 2009
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The Argus Group is taking legal action to try to force the liquidation of two investment funds in an attempt to recover some of its life insurance policyholders' assets that were exposed to the Bernard Madoff debacle.
Argus filed a petition in a Caym...
DATE: Feb 02, 2009
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Former RenaissanceRe chief executive officer James Stanard has been fined $100,000 by a New York civil court for his part in an alleged "sham transaction" to smooth company earnings.
Judge Gerard Lynch, of the United States District Court for the Sou...
DATE: Jan 30, 2009
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Rents being asked for high-end properties have fallen by between 10 and 30 percent, as the number of people seeking such accommodation falls.
Buddy Rego, of Rego Sotheby's International Ltd., said properties in the $5,000-plus per month range had see...
DATE: Jan 30, 2009
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Bermuda-based hedge fund manager Osmium Capital Management Ltd. has come up with an innovative way of allowing its investors to steer clear of the vagaries of major currency values — by denominating a class of shares in its fund in gold instead of mo...
DATE: Jan 29, 2009
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Some of the world's top independent economic analysts believe Bermuda's economy is at growing risk of contracting, largely because of its heavy reliance on the slumping US financial sector.
A report issued this week by The Economist Intelligence Unit...
DATE: Jan 29, 2009
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Fitch has affirmed Butterfield Bank's debt ratings and said that the impact of the company's capital support of its money-markets funds has been "manageable".
In commentary issued this week, the credit rating agency added that it would "closely monit...
DATE: Jan 29, 2009
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Internet service providers Transact and FKBNet have joined forces in a move they say will improve their services to customers.
The news came in a statement posted on the Transact website by Bill Dickinson, the general manager of the FKB / Transact pa...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009
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