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Bermuda headquartered Hiscox is to launch an TV and print media advertising campaign across the UK from this coming Monday.
Hiscox is one of the UK's leading insurers of higher value homes. The new campaign is entitled "Certainty", and seeks to drive...
DATE: Aug 04, 2007
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RenaissanceRe Holdings made a profit of $183.2 million in the second quarter compared to $130.4m a year ago, up 39 percent.
The figure, which represents net income available to shareholders, equates to $2.53 per diluted share, up from $1.81.
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DATE: Aug 01, 2007
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Rising demand for deluxe scotch whisky in China, Taiwan, Korea and other Asian countries has promoted Bacardi to invest more than $250 million to expand production of its Dewar's brand in Scotland.
The Bermuda-based company intends to add a new matur...
DATE: Aug 01, 2007
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Bermuda CableVision has confirmed that the Bloomberg business channel has replaced CNBC, which has been discontinued because of the expiration of a satellite agreement covering Bermuda and the Caribbean.
At the same time the company has added a new c...
DATE: Aug 01, 2007
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An outbreak of peace has been reported in the long-running, multi-billion dollar feud involving Bermuda-registered investment fund IPOC and a rival for a near $4 billion stake in Russian telecoms company MegaFon.
However, the bitter dispute over who ...
DATE: Jul 31, 2007
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Profits surged from $19.7 million to $94.1m year on year for Max Capital during the second quarter, the Bermuda company announced yesterday.
Max also announced that its new US-based Max Specialty Insurance Company had written around $10m of gross wri...
DATE: Jul 31, 2007
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XL executives remain on alert to any further deterioration within the US subprime mortgage sector, but for now are confident the company's $1.2 billion of exposure remains a sturdy segment of its multi-billion business.
That view was underlined durin...
DATE: Jul 27, 2007
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Two teenagers are about to embark on university and college education courses in North America with the help of an equal share in a $15,000 scholarship from the HWP Group.
Elkeisha Caisey and Cyniqua Anderson, both 18, have been given the perfect sta...
DATE: Jul 27, 2007
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IPC Re expects to be hit by a further $60 million of losses as a result of the latest UK flooding events, which occurred last weekend in central and southern parts of England. That figure matches exposed losses the company estimates from flooding of ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2007
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Devastating losses from the floods in England and Australia during June have reduced IPC Holdings' second quarter profits by 75 percent.
The company, which is the sole owner of IPC Re, took a hefty financial hit during the second three months of the ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2007
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