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Acumen Ltd. has announced its intentions to manage or acquire captive insurance companies in run-off, after gaining approval from regulator the Bermuda Monetary Authority to provide insurance management services.
Acumen was formed in January 2006, pr...
DATE: Aug 25, 2009
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A major hurricane making landfall in Florida is overdue — and conditions are now similar to those that spawned a succession of storms in the Sunshine State in 2004 and 2005.
That was the message yesterday from the Florida Insurance Council (FIC), whi...
DATE: Aug 25, 2009
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Clients who have seen their net worths shrink during the global financial crisis are demanding more from wealth managers and are trusting them less.
That is one of the findings of a report by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, entitled "A New E...
DATE: Aug 11, 2009
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Life insurance policyholders with British American Insurance Company (BAICO) should continue to pay their premiums while the company's Bermuda branch is being wound up.
That is the advice from the team from KPMG Advisory Ltd., which has been appointe...
DATE: Aug 06, 2009
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Concern mounted yesterday for clients of British American Insurance Company's Bermuda branch after the Official Receiver moved in at the firm this week.
Late on Monday, financial regulator the Bermuda Monetary Authority announced it had started windi...
DATE: Aug 05, 2009
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Those with savings or investments with the British American Insurance Company (BAICO) have been warned they face losing some of their money, after winding-up proceedings began against the insurer's Bermuda branch yesterday.
But BAICO's health insuran...
DATE: Aug 04, 2009
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The tallest building in the United States now bears the name of a Bermuda-domiciled company after Chicago's Sears Tower was renamed the Willis Tower.
In getting its name on the building Willis Group Holdings Ltd. - which is based in Bermuda, but has ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2009
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Bermuda is about to become only the sixth market in the world where the new Heineken Premium Light beer will be on sale.
Beverage supplier and retailer Burrows Lightbourn Ltd. will stock the product, which is described as having similar quality to re...
DATE: Jul 20, 2009
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An expert in financial crime is to be the keynote speaker at the Bermuda Compliance Summit in late September.
Dr. Chizu Nakajima, director of the Centre for Financial Regulation at the Cass Business School, City University, London, will speak at the ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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Bermudian Jenia Thompson is to open a new online clothes and accessories outlet, to be called the Lovit Boutique.
Ms Thompson said her aim was to attract shoppers who wanted to buy classy apparel at an affordable price.
"I've always had a passion for...
DATE: Jun 19, 2009
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