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It's turning into a busy week for companies redomiciling from London to Bermuda - the latest is Lloyd's underwriter Hardy which has ended a lengthy period of speculation and decided its future lies in Bermuda.
The decision comes just days after giant...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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Leaders of Invesco quickly arrived at the conclusion that Bermuda was the best place to redomicile to after waving goodbye to London.
With more than $500 billion of assets under management, the company looked around at its options and picked the Isla...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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Executives from the newest company to domicile in Bermuda are being given the red carpet treatment by Premier Ewart Brown this morning.
Afterall, it's not every day that a company with $521 billion of assets under its management shows up in town.
The...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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Finance Minister Paula Cox has responded to an accusation of a "lack of transparency" over a still unseen International Monetary Fund report on Bermuda's anti-money laundering and combatting terrorism funding abilities.
Although the report has been a...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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It could be the final word in going green - dehumidifying the air around you and turning the collected moisture into clean, filtered drinking water.
As recycling goes a new machine being rolled out on the Island appears to have it all sussed out.
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DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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XL Insurance, the global insurance operation of XL, has completed the purchase of Global Asset Protection Services from Swiss Re.
GAPS is a provider of unbundled loss prevention consulting services, offering individually tailored risk management solu...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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Architect and business leader William 'Bill' Bissell, who headed OBM International, has died aged 64.
Mr. Bissell took over as CEO of the company, formerly known as Onions Bouchard & McCulloch, in 1993 and has helped to promote Caribbean design value...
DATE: Dec 04, 2007
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Norton Re II Insurance Limited has been established as a Class 3 Bermuda reinsurer to provide natural perils catastrophe retrocession protection.
A license has been received from the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
With initial equity capital of $118.2 m...
DATE: Dec 04, 2007
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Digicel as made a $60 million investment in creating a new mobile telecommunications network in the small South American nation of Suriname.
By doing so it heralds the end of a 25-year telecoms monopoly in the country, which borders Brazil and has a ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2007
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Giant UK-based investment management company Invesco has been cleared to redomicile in Bermuda by one of the highest courts in Britain.
The compant, which has more than $450 billion of assets under management, will now move its home base from London ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2007
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