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A company that has played a significant part in arranging tourism events, conference events and excursions in Bermuda for the past 40 years has suspended all operations and issued a statement suggesting it will not return.
With the peak tourist seaso...
DATE: May 30, 2007
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The biggest privately-owned insurance company in the UK is being put up for sale for an estimated $5.95 billion ($3 billion).
Towergate's executive chairman Peter Cullum, who ten years ago worked as marketing director for specialist insurer Hiscox bu...
DATE: May 29, 2007
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A new way for shoppers to give to charity at certain times of the year has proved so popular at Gibbons Company that more than $11,000 has been given back to the community.
The concept was dreamt up in the run-up to last Christmas allowing customers ...
DATE: May 29, 2007
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Insurers and reinsurers underestimated the exposure danger of hurricanes by a whopping 80 percent when the triple-slam of Katrina, Rita and Wilma shook the multi-billion dollar industry in the latter half of 2005.
Hurricane risk models were woefully ...
DATE: May 29, 2007
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Buying real estate in Bermuda remains one of the best investments to be made on the Island despite the steep increase in property prices during the past seven years.
That is the assessment of Coldwell Banker Bermuda Realty, which the company backs up...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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With thousands of people having either walked the entire length of Bermuda or run from Somerset to Hamilton — or both — in the past month, there is one group of business professionals who have been kept particularly busy.
The past month has given spo...
DATE: May 25, 2007
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Insurance group BF&M saw its first quarter profits jump just over $1.5 million in the opening three months of 2007 compared to the same period a year ago.
The decision to expand into overseas markets, such as Barbados, has been attributed to much of ...
DATE: May 23, 2007
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Two months after it averted possible bankruptcy, Bermuda-based Scottish Re has announced two senior executive changes.
The shake-up comes in the wake of a difficult spell for the global reinsurance company, which had faced going into bankruptcy if it...
DATE: May 23, 2007
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One of the Island’s best known May 24 Marathon Derby competitors is questioning the changing of the event’s name and the decision to make it a measured half-marathon course that starts and finishes on a road.
Scotsman Mike Whalley, who has been on th...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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Ace is expanding its presence in Eastern Europe by opening offices in Hungary and the Czech Republic.
The insurance and reinsurance giant, which has its global headquarters in Bermuda, is looking to increase business in many of the emerging economies...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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