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Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company Ltd. has named Barry Zurbuchen as chief risk officer.
Mr. Zurbuchen is the company's senior vice-president, modelling and corporate pricing, a role in which he is responsible for the company's reinsurance,...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc.'s plan to exit US ownership includes a new $2 billion backstop from the Treasury Department after credit raters said the company may need emergency capital as it regains independence.
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DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will clamp down on welfare fraud, slash government spending and press banks to pay more tax in an attempt to cut its record peacetime budget deficit, finance minister George Osborne said yesterday.
Speaking before a spendin...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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Local stocks rose last week, led by jumps in the value of shares of both Butterfield Bank and Ascendant Group Ltd.
Butterfield rose 6.4 percent and Ascendant 4.9 percent, as The Royal Gazette / BSX Index climbed 3.75 percent. The index rose 47.5 poin...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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Tawana Tannock has been called to the Bermuda Bar after completing her pupilage in the Attorney General's Chambers.
Mrs. Tannock was formerly a M3 social studies teacher at Whitney Institute Middle School, a probation officer, Drug Court case manager...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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There are so many varieties of risk in this world, oh Bermuda. Take your pick: plane trips, automobile excursions, bathtubs, boats, politics, hurricanes, electrical malfunctions, fear of losing a job, being embarrassed, relationships, public speaking...
DATE: Oct 16, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Weak US consumer confidence figures hit stocks hard yesterday after they had rallied earlier on comments from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the central bank stands ready to loosen monetary policy again to shore up the US ec...
DATE: Oct 16, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Concerns about banks and a disappointing drop in revenue at General Electric halted a broad market rally yesterday, but spared the tech sector. Thanks to a surge that sent the shares of Google Inc. up more than 11 percent, the tech-fo...
DATE: Oct 16, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index finished lower for a second straight session yesterday as modest gains across most sectors were not enough to offset the drag from investors cutting gold positions.
The index was volatile in early action...
DATE: Oct 16, 2010
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The trading week ended quietly on the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
No shares at all were traded as the Royal Gazette / BSX Index ended yesterday unchanged on 1,264.21.
The BSX Insurance Index of the Island's leading international insurers fell one point, ...
DATE: Oct 16, 2010
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