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Around 60 of the world's top insurance chief executives and chairmen are meeting in Hamilton this week in the industry's highest-powered meeting of the year.
The annual general assembly of The Geneva Association, or the International Association for ...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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Climate change is "an underwriter's worst nightmare" as its unpredictable effects make assessing risk an increasingly difficult task.
That is the view of an expert on the subject, Andre Logan, of Ceres, a non-profit organisation which directs the Inv...
DATE: May 23, 2008
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The rise of nanotechnology will challenge the insurance industry to deal with a wide range of new risks that will impinge on almost all lines of business, conference delegates heard yesterday.
Speaking at the International Reinsurance Summit at the F...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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Lloyd's of London insurer Hardy Underwriting has made an underwriting profit for every one of its more than 30 years in business.
And chief executive officer Barbara Merry believes its move of domicile from the UK to Bermuda will help it to keep that...
DATE: May 20, 2008
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Bermuda-based Ram Holdings Ltd. last night reported a first-quarter net loss of $189.5 million, largely because of a fall in the value of the credit derivatives it reinsures.
Broken down, the financial guaranty reinsurer's loss amounted to $6.95 per ...
DATE: May 20, 2008
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Work permit time limits have not led to the exodus of foreign workers from Bermuda that some had predicted, employment services expert Doug Soares told a conference in the Cayman Islands last week.
But Mr. Soares, a partner at Bermuda employment serv...
DATE: May 19, 2008
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A New York hedge fund manager intends to create a $145 million "ultra-luxury resort" on the site of the old Lantana cottage colony.
Lawrence Doyle said he had bought out the previous owners of the 9.6-acre Somerset site, Lantana Resort Ltd. and Great...
DATE: May 19, 2008
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Bermuda-based political risk specialist Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd. plans to set up its first overseas office in Dubai.
Sovereign, which is owned by Ace Bermuda Insurance Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ace Ltd., has a staff of 10, one of whom w...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Property losses resulting from the earthquake that shook China this week could total between $10 billion and $20 billion, according to the early analysis of two of the world's leading catastrophe modelling firms — but only a fraction of that cost wil...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Bermuda residents spent 54 percent more on overseas purchases in March than they did in the same month a year earlier, according to figures released by Government yesterday.
Purchases declared by returning residents totalled $5.1 million, a year-on-y...
DATE: May 14, 2008
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