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Just five months after Bermuda-based Ironshore Insurance opened its doors as a primary insurer focused on property catastrophe lines, its parent company Ironshore Inc. is getting very busy.
In the first quarter, the company set up Ironshore Reinsuran...
DATE: May 23, 2007
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After Bermuda resident Pam Cruickshank sent her daughters away to boarding school, she didn't want to think of them constantly snacking on junk food.
So she sent them packages of goodies, including the likes of fruitcake, cookies and flapjacks.
Ms Cr...
DATE: May 23, 2007
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Global insurance broker Lockton Cos. Inc. is setting up shop in Bermuda.
The Kansas City-based company has hired three staff with great experience of the Bermuda insurance market — Ed Correia, William Lowe and Philip DiMeglio — to head its operation....
DATE: May 22, 2007
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When you invest some money, have a personal goal for that investment and don't worry yourself about how it compares to the investments of others.
That is the advice of Jack Brennan, chief executive officer of Vanguard, the biggest mutual fund provide...
DATE: May 15, 2007
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Having no university education need not stop young people from enjoying a successful career in Bermuda's booming insurance sector.
That was the clear message from Bermudian Theresa Dunlop who spoke after receiving her joint Young Reinsurance Person o...
DATE: May 14, 2007
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Bermuda reinsurer Validus Re will this week announce that it has bought Lloyd's of London's Talbot Underwriting in a $400 million deal, according to a UK newspaper.
The takeover, revealed by The Sunday Telegraph, will mark the first time that one of ...
DATE: May 14, 2007
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Inspectors from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are on the Island as part of an ongoing assessment of offshore financial centres.
Bermuda is one of more than 40 jurisdictions scheduled to be visited by IMF reviewers this year and the delegation...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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Bermuda reinsurer ESG Re is suing accountancy firm Deloitte & Touche for $22 million in a case that opens in Dublin's High Court today.
ESG is claiming that it suffered a significant loss of business because three Deloitte companies were negligent an...
DATE: May 08, 2007
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Bermuda is one of the top five financial centres in the world and a secure jurisdiction, according to Digicel owner Denis O'Brien.
That is why the Irish entrepreneur, who has masterminded the phenomenal success of the Caribbean region's biggest cell ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2007
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Government is in the process of collecting information from around 1,500 Island businesses and organisations to monitor economic activity.
Questionnaires were mailed out this week by the Department of Statistics, which is gathering data for the annua...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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