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A chef has cooked up a new business idea — selling electronic equipment and other goods at US prices.
Heinz Kleissner. a chef at Miles Market in Pembroke, took the plunge and is to open new store Hot Buys on Friday after selling computers and other e...
DATE: May 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermudian Stephen Young is to take over as Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd’s chief executive officer of global reinsurance from the start of next year.
Mr Young, who is the chief underwriting officer and head of global catastrophe reinsurance, will ...
DATE: May 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
The UK government has set up a special task force to snatch lucrative catastrophe bond insurance-linked securities business from Bermuda.
The British Government — then a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition — signalled in its budget last March tha...
DATE: May 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The European Commission has cleared the proposed merger between Axis and PartnerRe.
The Commission said the deal did not breach European antitrust regulations — the last competition-related hurdle the two reinsurance firms had to clear.
A statement f...
DATE: May 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A total of 6,100 shares worth $19,481 traded on The Royal Gazette/BSX.
Bermuda Aviation Services closed one cent (0.3 per cent) lower at $3.15 after 6,000 shares sold.
Utilities firm Ascendant, parent of power supplier Belco, finished 30 cents (5.9 p...
DATE: May 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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The Royal Gazette/BSX Index on Friday closed at 1,300.81, down 4.83 points (0.27 per cent) on the week.
Shares in Butterfield Bank ended the week one cent lower (0.5 per cent) at $1.89 after 24,400 were traded. BF&M shares also ended lower, down 14 c...
DATE: May 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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A Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) veteran has been appointed the organisation’s chief operations officer.
Shanna Lespere, who has worked in a variety of roles in her more than a decade with the Island’s financial watchdog, moves from her current pos...
DATE: May 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
After 10 years in business The Comic Stop will come to a halt at the end of June.
A closing down sale is now on at the shop in the Emporium Building, on Front Street. Co-owner Garan Madeiros said that while he will be sad to wave goodbye to the shop ...
DATE: May 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
The new-look Hamilton Princess has signed up 200 new employees as it gears up for the summer season.
And further job opportunities are still available across a range of hotel departments.
The new staff — who will be employed mostly in the food and be...
DATE: May 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Companies are taking a more sophisticated approach to managing all aspects of the workforce, including the hourly, contingent, and contract workforce.
In our initial Global Human Capital Trends report in 2013, we described the rapidly emerging “open...
DATE: May 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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