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The shareholders of Bermuda-based insurer Alea Group Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. narrowly rejected the proposed cash acquisition by FIN Acquisition Ltd. via an amalgamation scheme at an adjourned special general meeting held last Thursday.
Alea announced...
DATE: Jun 04, 2007
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The wave of new insurers established on the Island since Hurricane Katrina, known as the "Class of 2005", are likely to buy into the Lloyd's of London market in the near future, according to sources quoted by a top British daily.
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DATE: Jun 01, 2007
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The World Insurance Forum (WIF) is to be held in Dubai next year — the first time in the conference's 14-year history it will have been held outside Bermuda.
WIF project coordinator Suzie Pewter yesterday declined to comment on the change of venue fo...
DATE: Jun 01, 2007
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Business people were yesterday grappling with the problem of planning for next Tuesday's public holiday to mark the funeral of Dame Lois Browne Evans.
The Cabinet decided at its meeting on Tuesday, following the death of former Progressive Labour Par...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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E-commerce payment solutions company First Atlantic Commerce has been chosen to process the online credit-card payments for car hire giant Avis.
The contract is the latest feather in the cap of a Bermuda company that has established a growing reputat...
DATE: May 30, 2007
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The total equity of Bermuda's insurers and reinsurers has rocketed to nearly $67 billion — up 24 percent since the 2005 Hurricane Katrina.
That was one of several notable points made in a report by rating agency A.M. Best, entitled "Bermuda — 12-mont...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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Next Saturday, 157 Bermuda-based candidates will take a gruelling examination that will help them on the long road to becoming a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
They will be among nearly 100,000 candidates world-wide taking level one, two or three...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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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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