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Allied World has reported a 79.9 percent combined ratio for the first quarter of 2014, an achievement which has pleased chief executive officer Scott Carmilani as earnings crushed analysts’ expectations.
The Switzerland-headquartered re/insurer’s und...
DATE: Apr 24, 2014
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Rebecca Zuill
The Bermuda Bar Council wants to ensure legal practitioners meet a set of standards for post-qualification experience before they go into sole practice.
The Bermuda Bar Association president Justin Williams, who was re-elected to the position for a s...
DATE: Apr 24, 2014
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Rebecca Zuill
The chief financial officer of most companies has been focused on the regulatory requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and then the cost-cutting requirements of the recession.
A KPMG research document stated: “Diverted by the need to respond to suc...
DATE: Apr 22, 2014
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Rebecca Zuill
Bermuda suffered a year-over-year loss of more than 1,100 jobs through August last year, according to the latest Government employment figures.
The Department of Statistics 2014 edition of the Bermuda Job Market Employment Briefs Employment figures, ...
DATE: Apr 22, 2014
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Rebecca Zuill
The five-year government rebate scheme for solar voltaic installations is to end this month, it was announced yesterday — but at least one solar energy infrastructure provider is not concerned by the move.
Jamie Smith, president of Solar Bermuda, on...
DATE: Apr 17, 2014
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Ascendant Group Ltd reported yesterday 2013 profits were down 57.6 percent last year as electricity sales tumbled.
After the 3.2 percent fall in kiloWatt hours sold in 2013, electricity provider Belco, a subsisdiary of Ascendant, has now seen electri...
DATE: Apr 15, 2014
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
The Bermuda video backdrop of Pharrell Williams’ hit song Happy reached a new high this week when it opened a compilation from around the world that was featured on Oprah, reducing her guest, the father of the movement and also a top music producer, ...
DATE: Apr 15, 2014
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
The Bentley Friendly Society, set up in October of 2012 to provide property, home, automobile and motorcycle insurance, has been told the Transport Control Department (TCD) will no longer accept their certificate of motor insurance documents “with im...
DATE: Apr 11, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Bermuda is well positioned to attract investment for national infrastructure projects, the speaker at the Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting told a packed Gazebo Room at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel yesterday.
Stephen Beatty, who is K...
DATE: Apr 10, 2014
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Business interests ranging from Walt Disney to Dow Chemical are among 260 organisations who have signed a letter to the US Congress calling for the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) to be reauthorised.
The US Chamber of Commerce rallied those who s...
DATE: Apr 09, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill