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The role that information technology can play in meeting the ever-evolving challenges facing the insurance and reinsurance industry will be the subject of a conference at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess today.
Computer giant IBM and Bermuda Computer S...
DATE: Apr 12, 2007
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Some of the pension funds held by Argus Financial Ltd. (AFL) are being invested using an innovative — yet surprisingly simple — new technique.
An academic study has shown that “fundamental index” (FI) investing would have outperformed the S&P 500 by ...
DATE: Apr 11, 2007
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Expanding insurance brokerage Integro Ltd. has announced the formation of an international insurance and reinsurance unit based in London.
The move is the latest step in the rapid expansion of the company which was founded two years ago by Bermuda in...
DATE: Apr 10, 2007
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A news report out of Ireland claims that many Bermuda international companies are considering plans to relocate the bulk of their businesses — leaving just satellite offices on the Island — because of concerns over work-permit time limits and the pos...
DATE: Apr 05, 2007
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Bermuda lags behind many rival business jurisdictions in the quality of its telecommunications links and Government’s proposed reforms of the industry will help to rectify the situation.
That is the view of Cable & Wireless chief executive officer Ed...
DATE: Apr 04, 2007
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Since it was erected 23 years ago Cable & Wireless’ enormous satellite dish, visible from Middle Road in Devonshire, has become something of a Bermuda landmark.
For much of that time the earth station provided the Island with an essential telecommuni...
DATE: Apr 04, 2007
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Interest is still high among corporations in setting up captive insurers in Bermuda, despite growing competition from rival domiciles in the US.
But competition in the industry is heating up, as more US states pass laws aimed at making themselves dom...
DATE: Apr 03, 2007
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Bermuda’s burgeoning insurance market is at the heart of a global industry that helps to underpin the world economy.
It is one cog in a huge machine that incorporates companies in numerous cities around the world, from brokers and catastrophe modelle...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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Bear Stearns has been ordered by a US court to pay nearly $160 million to investors in a collapsed hedge fund that was administered and audited in Bermuda.
The Manhattan Investment Fund folded seven years ago, leaving investors with losses of more th...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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Bermuda-based First Atlantic Commerce Ltd. (FAC), which specialises in e-commerce payment solutions, is to expand into Mauritius to offer its clients greater global reach.
The company has announced the launch of its “Pan Asian solution” which FAC say...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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