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Ace Ltd. last night lost its place on the S&P 500 index after shareholders voted on its redomestication to Switzerland.
The news that MasterCard would replace the insurance giant in the closely watched bellwether of large-capitalisation US-listed com...
DATE: Jul 11, 2008
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Cindy Campbell has shifted her focus from Argus clients' physical health to their financial health, with her appointment as chief operating officer of investment company Argus Financial Ltd. (AFL)
And if there's one key piece of advice she wants to g...
DATE: Jul 11, 2008
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The head of a company once responsible for managing millions of dollars of Bermuda Government pension funds has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for fraud.
Mark Lay, of the now-defunct MDL Capital Management was ordered to repay nearly $213 million...
DATE: Jul 11, 2008
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Ace Ltd. shareholders meet today in Hamilton to vote on the insurance giant's proposal to move its holding company from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland.
The company announced its intended redomestication in March, but has said its Bermuda operation...
DATE: Jul 10, 2008
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XL Capital could reasonably be expected to make a full recovery from its problems related to its beleaguered bond insurer affiliate Security Capital Assurance (SCA), according a financial analyst who covers the company for credit rating agency AM Bes...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Many Island insurance bosses feel uncomfortable about the political situation in Bermuda, one senior executive told Global Reinsurance magazine.
The executive, who asked not to be named, added that the concerns were not sufficient to make most compan...
DATE: Jul 08, 2008
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The UK Foreign Affairs Committee has recommended that Bermuda keep working to improve its anti-money laundering regime in a report on the British Overseas Territories, published yesterday.
Financial regulator the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) came...
DATE: Jul 07, 2008
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Bermuda-based Igility Group has won the IBM agency licence in the Cayman Islands.
It has partnered with a Caymanian entity to form CDS Agencies Ltd. and is responsible for managing all aspects of the business.
Paul Gallagher has been named sales and ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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Government is set to "redefine its relationship" with companies that redomicile to the Island from the US to slash their US tax bill, Premier Ewart Brown said.
Companies including industrial giants Ingersoll-Rand and Cooper Industries have relocated ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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Relations between Bermuda and the US are on a solid footing, said Premier Ewart Brown and US Consul General Gregory Slayton in a joint interview this week.
In a wide-ranging conversation at Camden, the two men touched on issues of last week's bilater...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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