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Bermuda-based Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Ltd. announced last night that full-year profits for 2007 rose by 10 percent to $167.9 million.
But profits for the fourth quarter of last year fell to $$51.4 million from $63.6 million in the same three m...
DATE: Feb 19, 2008
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Finance Minister Paula Cox told business people yesterday that she had striven to limit Government spending in the face of hefty financial requests from her Cabinet colleagues.
And she added that the large increases in Government current account spen...
DATE: Feb 19, 2008
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Ron Sandler will continue as chairman of Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore despite having been appointed by the British government to run the ailing Northern Rock Bank.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown selected former Lloyd's of London chief executive of...
DATE: Feb 19, 2008
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XL Capital Ltd. chief executive officer Brian O'Hara told investors in New York this week that the Bermuda insurer is "way undervalued" and he believes the markets will understand that before long.
XL shares have lost 47 percent of their value over t...
DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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The sub-prime mortgage crisis still has a long way to run, but it will not be a "major event" for Ace Ltd, said the Bermuda insurer's chief executive officer Evan Greenberg.
Speaking at a Merrill Lynch investor conference in New York on Tuesday, Mr. ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2008
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Bermuda will not dominate as the top insurance domicile of choice for start-up companies in the next decade in the same way as it has done the last ten years, according to analysts Standard & Poor's.
In a special report entitled "Competing Insurance ...
DATE: Feb 13, 2008
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Arthur Clinton Brangman is in the process of setting up a business that will help Bermudians to achieve their personal and financial goals.
His novel concept is to offer customers the help of a "personal service broker" who will help individuals and ...
DATE: Feb 12, 2008
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Henry Keeling has long been spoken of as a likely successor to XL Capital chief executive officer Brian O'Hara — and he revealed on Friday that he would love to take on the top job, if it were offered to him.
XL announced last October that Mr. O'Hara...
DATE: Feb 11, 2008
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More than 2,000 people flocked to the Coldwell Banker Home Show on Saturday to learn virtually every imaginable aspect of home ownership.
Fifty-eight exhibitors filled 81 booths on two floors of No.1 Shed on Front Street, offering ideas and advice on...
DATE: Feb 11, 2008
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Bermuda reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. has struck up an unlikely partnership with Walt Disney to set up a theme-park attraction aimed at showing visitors what it's like to be caught up in a hurricane.
"StormStruck: The Tale of Two Homes" is sc...
DATE: Feb 07, 2008
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