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PartnerRe last night reported a 12 percent fall in first-quarter net income compared to 2006 after it sustained losses of $44 million from a winter storm in Europe.
The storm, named Kyrill, brought hurricane-force winds and widespread damage to the U...
DATE: Apr 24, 2007
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Critics around the world should stop pointing the finger at offshore financial centres and get their own houses in order, according to the president of the Association of Bermuda Compliance Officers (ABCO).
Owen Reid said the world’s biggest money-la...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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Property developer and manager West Hamilton Ltd. has estimated that its planned construction of four new multi-purpose structures around the existing Belvedere Building just outside Hamilton will cost $80 million.
In announcing its first quarter res...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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Most M3 Wireless customers were unaffected by the outage which disrupted internet service for BlackBerry users across North America earlier this week, the company said.
In a statement relased on Wednesday afternoon, M3 said a fault had occurred on th...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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The Bermuda reinsurance industry is in better financial shape than it has been for several years and 2007 should be a solid year.
That is the expert opinion of ratings agency A.M. Best, which yesterday presented its second annual Bermuda insurance an...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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In the year that Dr. James King became a director of the Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Ltd., Jimmy Carter was the US President, the film “Grease” was released and Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado was born.
Yesterday, at the Bank’s annual general meet...
DATE: Apr 19, 2007
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The combination of generous pay awards and Bermuda’s overheating economy are putting pressure on local businesses trying to attract and retain staff, says Watlington Waterworks chief executive officer Allan Rance.
Mr. Rance spoke with The Royal Gazet...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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Bermuda-based Catlin Group Ltd. is dipping its toes into the Chinese insurance market as part of the Lloyd’s of London’s new reinsurance operation which opened in Shanghai on Monday.
Industry experts are predicting that China will become the biggest ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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Nosheen Syed is the first to admit that she took a major gamble when she abandoned a successful career in market research in North America to head up a Bermuda start-up company with no clients and no staff.
That company was Research.bm and as staff a...
DATE: Apr 17, 2007
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Former American International Group (AIG) chief excutive officer Maurice (Hank) Greenberg believes that Bermuda and London have overtaken New York in level of importance as global insurance centres.
According to a report in the UK newspaper the Finan...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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