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A columnist for the Financial Times has claimed US corporate profits in Bermuda totaled 646 percent of the Island’s GDP.
He wrote that the winner of this year’s US election will be forced to “engage deeply with fiscal issues”- including tax reform.
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DATE: Feb 27, 2012
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Which sector of the equity market offers a high level of current dividend income, operates in a unique environment that allows its participants to earn back their cost of capital plus make a profit, has almost no exposure to Europe, operates in an in...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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Personal Finance
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KeyTech Ltd shares rose 1 percent on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The shares climbed .05 percent to close at $5.25 on a volume of 1,600 shares.
Overall, the BSX closed up .06 percent, or 62, at 1,016.37.
The BSX Insurance Index closed ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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Bermuda Stock Exchange
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The euro crisis is still hot. There are riots on the streets of Athens. No part of the political progress is happening without hysterics and plot twists.
Yet this is all a side show. The latest Greek bail-out agreement may have gone into the wee smal...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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Personal Finance
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Butterfield Bank dropped 5 cents (4.34 percent) on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday, with 23,100 shares trading to close at $1.10. BF&M also dropped 25 cents (1.61 percent) with 1,500 shares trading to close at $15.25.
Overall, the BSX closed at ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Shares of Bermuda reinsurer White Mountains Insurance Group were up three percent yesterday after the company announced it had repurchased billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s $45 million stake in the company.
White Mountains also revealed plans for...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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Reinsurance
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Lancashire Holdings president Neil McConachie will step down from his executive role at the end of this year.
The Bermuda reinsurer said yesterday that Mr McConachie intended to continue on the Lancashire board as a non-executive director, from the s...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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Reinsurance
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Lancashire Holdings yesterday reported a $212.2 million net profit after taxes for 2011 and declared a special dividend to shareholders.
The London-based company reported a 80-cent special dividend per share for 2011 as compared to $1.40 the year pri...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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Reinsurance
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Founder of Mello Jones & Martin, Michael Mello QC, has joined the firm of Appleby.
In a statement yesterday, Appleby announced that Mr Mello will join its award-winning Private Client & Trusts practice as counsel from next month.
Appleby said Mr Mell...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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Local Business
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Solar and other renewable energy sources may be cleaner and cost-effective elsewhere, but in Bermuda they are still considerably more expensive than oil.
This from Belco after former CIA director James Woolsey urged Bermuda to go solar in a speech to...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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Local Business
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