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If you think being a management consultant is a career that keeps you tied to a desk and the corporate world, think again.
Bermudian Joanna Dove just returned from a month in Kenya, living in the wild, meeting Samburu warriors and cooking by campfire...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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Bermuda became a more prominent trading partner with the US as other offshore financial centres suffered from the fallout from the financial crisis.
That is according to the ‘US-Bermuda Economic Relations: Economic Impact Study 2011’ conducted by Dr ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2011
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As Moammar Gadhafi’s regime fell, a young Bermudian was one of the few journalists on the front lines covering the war as it unfolded.
Emma Farge joined the respected Reuters news agency in June 2009 as an oil derivatives reporter, which has taken he...
DATE: Oct 03, 2011
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A taste of Central America will be coming to Bermuda with the opening of a new mobile Mexican eatery in Hamilton today.
Little Mexico, which will be located in Wesley Square on the corner of Wesley and Church Streets by the City Hall parking lot, is ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2011
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Local Business
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One of my favourite movies is “Failure to Launch”. Not because it's great cinema, I just like the premise.
It's about a 35-year-old, played by Matthew McConaughey, who lives at home and has no intentions of leaving. So his parents hire a woman who sp...
DATE: Sep 03, 2011
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Personal Finance
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When I was in Toronto recently I was fortunate to hear John Warrillow speak. I hadn't heard of him before and so I was a little sceptical at first. However once I learned that he now lives in Aix-en-Provence while training for the Ironman Triathlon a...
DATE: Aug 30, 2011
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Bermuda Works
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Allied World Assurance Company Holdings AG has agreed to merge with US reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc in a $3.2 billion deal that creates a reinsurer with operations in 18 countries - but other suitors may be tempted to make a rival bid for Tra...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Reinsurance
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - American International Group Inc. (AIG), recipient of a $182.3 billion US government rescue, agreed to pay $450 million to rivals to settle claims it shortchanged industry-funded pools that insure injured workers.
Travelers Cos...
DATE: Jan 10, 2011
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International Business
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During a rainstorm in Washington in early 2009, amid the furore over Wall Street's post-bailout bonuses, an American International Group employee pulled out an umbrella that had the insurer's name on it.
“Somebody came by, grabbed the umbrella and br...
DATE: Dec 22, 2010
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International Business
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc. hired Sid Sankaran, a partner at consulting firm Oliver Wyman, as chief risk officer as the bailed-out insurer works to regain independence from the US.
Sankaran headed Wyman's Toronto office a...
DATE: Nov 09, 2010
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