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Net income: $143.9 million compared to $3.1 million in 2009.
Gross premiums written: $1.92 billion v $1.88 billion in 2009.
Combined ratio: 100.5 percent compared to 92.1 percent in 2009.
DATE: May 05, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) – British manufacturing activity grew last month at its fastest rate in more than 15 years, a survey of purchasing managers showed yesterday, boosting hopes that the broader economic recovery is gathering momentum.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A person close to the National Football League says Anheuser-Busch is in talks to become the official beer sponsor of the league. Rival MillerCoors says it won't renew its sponsorship.
The person — who is familiar with the negotiation...
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Some major changes needed to sustain the Cayman Islands as a viable economy could be applied to the case of Bermuda.
That is according to Jim Miller, chair of the Miller Commission on Taxation, Fiscal Management & Regulation Reform in the Cayman Isla...
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Offshore financial centres (OFCs) that are well regulated and agile, such as Bermuda, stand the best chance of competing with their onshore rivals in the financial services arena.
That is the view of Eduardo D'Angelo Silva, an offshore banker from th...
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Bermuda-based Argo Group International Holdings Ltd.'s first-quarter net income fell 23 percent after the re/insurer suffered catastrophe losses of $29.1 million.
Of those estimated losses, which the company said amounted to about 1.8 percent of 2009...
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Jonathan Kent
Bermuda's Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) has been praised by a leading US lawyer for its role in helping to combat global financial crime.
Ed Davis, founding shareholder of Astigarraga Davis, based in Miami, featured in a number of panels includi...
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Offshore banks need to keep a closer eye on their customers' investments to pick up on Ponzi schemes.
That is the view of Owen Henry of the Cayman National Corporation, who highlighted the case concerning the 'Cash 4 Titles' scheme in which the Bank ...
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp its "Courier" tablet PC, vaunted by some as a potential rival to Apple Inc's iPad, will not be launched as a product, at least not in its current form.
The device — which has never been publicly acknowledged by Micr...
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Net income: $20.7 million compared to $27 million in 2009.
Gross premiums written: $404.5 million compared to $496.1 million in 2009.
Combined ratio: 105 percent compared to 96.3 percent in 2009.
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