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Shares of Polaris Holding Company jumped 40 per cent in light trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
The company, which owns Hamilton docks operator Stevedoring Services, gained $2 to close on $7 as 1,000 shares changed hands.
Polaris acquired East E...
DATE: Apr 02, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
For budding entrepreneurs, a good idea is only the start. To be successful, they must also be able to execute the idea.
“You can have the best idea in the world, but if an entrepreneur is not able to execute on it, then it’s like having a Formula One...
DATE: Apr 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Bermudian-based Oil Casualty Insurance Ltd has reported a net loss for the 2018 fiscal year of $39 million, breaking a string of seven consecutive years of net profits.
The mutual insurer of shareholders in the energy industry said the loss was princ...
DATE: Apr 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
The battle between Bermudian-based Argo Group International Holdings Ltd and activist shareholder Voce Capital Management is heating up.
The San Francisco-based hedge fund owns about 5.6 per cent of Argo, and earlier this month attacked what it calle...
DATE: Apr 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
ILS Capital Management Ltd, the Bermudian-based manager of insurance-linked securities investments, delivered a double-digit return to a major investor last year.
Bob Jacksha, chief investment officer of the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, a...
DATE: Apr 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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Nearly 80 per cent of banking CEOs see skills shortages supporting digital transformation as a threat to growth prospects.
Their ability to innovate effectively and provide a winning customer experience is suffering as a result.
These are the findi...
DATE: Apr 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
Nine people have completed a training programme presented by the internationally-recognised Cleaning Management Institute.
Completing the six-day programme, held in partnership with the Department of Workforce Development, were Hazel Morris, Lavita W...
DATE: Apr 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
Dear Dave,
I’m getting married this summer and about become a stepfather, but my fiancée’s daughter from a previous marriage seems very irresponsible. She’s 20 and lives at home, has trouble holding a job, and she doesn’t really want to work. When sh...
DATE: Mar 30, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
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What can we learn from the case of someone who turned $100,000 in short-dated call options into a $2.5 million profit? As detailed in MarketWatch earlier this month, trader Steve Oliverez was pretty sure the Republican tax overhaul was going to be ap...
DATE: Mar 30, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
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Equine vet Stephanie Wilkinson always wanted to set up a practice at home in Bermuda, but didn’t think there would be enough customers.
“Although we have a relatively healthy population of horses considering the size of the island, it’s not quite eno...
DATE: Mar 29, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy