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RAM Holdings is warning its third quarter results, due out next Monday, will be affected by a mark-to-market loss of around $28.4 million and as a result the company expects to report a net loss.
The loss is in respect of its credit derivatives portf...
DATE: Oct 31, 2007
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Axis Capital Holdings has seen its profit rise $44 million year-on-year for the third quarter to $279.1 million.
That represents a record net income for the quarter available to common shareholders of $270 million, compared to $226 million a year ago...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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Bermuda-based Lancashire Holdings has doubled its after-tax profit for the third quarter to $105.2 million and reaffirmed its projection of ending the year with at least a 20 percent increase in its gross premiums written.
During the third quarter th...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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American Safety Insurance Holdings has seen its profits rise slightly to $7 million from $5.3 million a year ago.
It's third quarter results reveal an 18 percent rise in gross written premiums to $50.3 million and an improved combined ratio that has ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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In one swift move Butterfield Bank has expanded its wealth management reach to Hong Kong, London and Malta.
The bank has bought privately-held international wealth management company Bentley Reid Group, including its offices around the world and its ...
DATE: Oct 29, 2007
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The US operating arm of ACE Limited has agreed to pay $4.5 million to resolve allegations that it was involved in "pay to play" tactics used by insurance brokers in the US to inflate premium rates for business.
It is alleged that ACE conspired with M...
DATE: Oct 29, 2007
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Hedge fund managers and other financial market-types had a dream first day at the start of the 14th Annual MARHedge Hedge Fund Summit that got underway in Bermuda yesterday and concludes tomorrow.
In an effort to ease into the summit gently, delegate...
DATE: Oct 29, 2007
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A book about the tumultuous evolution of the near 160-year-old Lazard investment bank - which is incorporated in Bermuda - has beat former Fed Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulance to win the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs B...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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Certain Government ministers might take a sharp intake of breath this morning when they hear that corporate employees in Bermuda have been assessing the requirements needed to open up company operations in Ireland.
But Cabinet members needn't reach f...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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Hot on the heels of an estimate that the raging wildfires in California have caused $1 billion of insured losses, another leading provider of services for catastrophe risk management Risk Management Solutions has raised the upper expectation of total...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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