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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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The man who was widely thought to be the true owner of the Bermuda-based IPOC Fund has been fired as Russian Telecommunications Minister.
Leonid Reiman was named by a Swiss arbitration panel in 2006 as the true owner of the Fund, though he has always...
DATE: May 14, 2008
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The redomestication of Ace Ltd.'s holding company to Switzerland will change nothing as regards the company's operations in Bermuda, the company's chief executive officer Evan Greenberg said yesterday.
Ace Ltd. has its roots in Bermuda and has long b...
DATE: May 13, 2008
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Women are now outnumbering men in terms of the numbers of Bermudians joining the Island's insurance industry.
The Bermuda Insurance Institute (BII), a registered charity that oversees insurance education, reported that 59 percent of graduates who pas...
DATE: May 13, 2008
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Ace Ltd. has become the first company in Bermuda to gain the new, updated Investors In People (IIP) standard.
At a reception at the global insurer's Woodbourne Avenue offices, chief executive officer Evan Greenberg said IIP principles were in line wi...
DATE: May 13, 2008
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Bermudian Gino Smith earned a standing ovation from some 350 insurance industry peers on Saturday evening after a speech outlining his meteoric rise from a pack-racing youth to an assistant vice-president at XL Re.
Accepting his award as Young (Re)in...
DATE: May 12, 2008
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Two accountants at the Bermuda-based office of the Arthur Morris Group of Companies have been handed the considerable task of assessing what is required to manage the winding up of the IPOC International Growth Fund and eight related companies.
Dudle...
DATE: May 09, 2008
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The allegation that a US intelligence-gathering firm had bribed an employee of KPMG Advisory Services, the company hired by the Bermuda Finance Ministry to carry out an inspection of the IPOC Fund, provided an intriguing sideshow to the long-running ...
DATE: May 09, 2008
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