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Bermuda’s reinsurance market claimed $11.6 billion in net income during 2006 compared to the hurricane-ravaged losses of 2005 when there was a $2.1bn net loss.
ACE led the way, accounting for 31 percent of the gross written premiums last year (see pi...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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Not even an appearance by Star Wars' Princess Leia actress Carrie Fisher 100 yards away could distract a roomful of business people from focusing on a panel discussion entitled "Getting the most out of your internal audit function — an executive's pe...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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New York law firm Milberg Weiss & Bershad is investigating possible illegal conduct in proposed class action lawsuits filed by certain other law firms on behalf of investors in Bermuda-registered Quanta Capital Holdings.
Since last summer Quanta’s no...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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Aspen Insurance Holdings’ own catastrophe risk management tool, known as “CATman,” has been judged the best use of information technology in insurance.
That is the opinion of Financial Sector Technology Magazine which has given its 2007 award for the...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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CastlePoint Holdings became the first of Bermuda's "Class of 2005" reinsurance companies to go public when it released shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday and showed an immediate result for investors as the shares jumped in value by 11.38 p...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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A small net gain of $82,171 in the fourth quarter of 2006 by Bermuda-based Annuity and Life Re was not enough to move the company out of the red for the full 2006 financial year, which show a $1,129,030 net loss.
However, both figures are improvement...
DATE: Mar 23, 2007
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A chance for an ambitious Bermudian to potentially reach employment at the the very highest levels of international business is being offered through a Masters degree scholarship offered at one of the world’s leading universities for risk management ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2007
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A US company has thanked the Royal Gazette for exposing a questionable UK-based Internet domain name selling scheme that was exposed when it was tried in Bermuda last month.
Sharp-eyed Bermuda Provident alerted this newspaper to an attempt by London-...
DATE: Mar 23, 2007
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The world’s number two insurance broker Aon has revealed that homeowner insurance was the most volatile major insurance line in the world during the 14-year period spanning 1992 to 2005.
Homeowner insurance was three times as volatile as private pass...
DATE: Mar 23, 2007
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Small construction firms could be forced out of business if a strict ratio of work-permits to apprentices policy becomes the rule in Bermuda.
That is the concern of the Construction Association of Bermuda, which is questioning the policy shift and ha...
DATE: Mar 23, 2007
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