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Nephila Capital attracted around $340 million from 11 UK institutions into its catastrophe reinsurance fund in the second half of 2009.
The company is an investment manager specialising in insurance-linked securities such as catastrophe bonds.
Nephi...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Burger King Holdings Inc expects lower fiscal third-quarter revenue and restaurant margins in the US and Canada as bad weather in the central and eastern United States kept diners away.
The Miami-based hamburger chain added th...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A year after the stock market began its comeback from 12-year lows, investors are looking for the next big thing.
Stocks have lost some of the momentum that propelled the Dow Jones industrial average up 61.4 percent from its close of ...
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LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - US safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego yesterday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier.
US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said ...
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PartnerRe Ltd. may face more than $300 million in claims emanating from the earthquake that caused billions of dollars worth of damage in Chile and tens of millions more from a European windstorm.
The company's shares fell 2.2 percent to $77.43 yeste...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock market index fell for a second straight session yesterday as weaker oil and gold prices pulled resource shares lower, while most bank stocks also dropped.
The index's materials sector, home to mining and ferti...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Marsh & McLennan Cos., the world's second-biggest insurance broker, received an offer for its Kroll security unit that values the subsidiary at $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion, said a person familiar with the matter.
The bid came ...
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A Bermuda re/insurance industry group has written to a US House of Representatives committee to oppose a bill that proposes a federal catastrophe reinsurance fund.
The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) said the proposal would mean...
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. will launch 3D televisions in June, entering an increasingly crowded market that is betting the revolutionary TV will become the next hot product in the electronics industry.
The maker of Bravia flat TVs hopes 3D models t...
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Bermuda-based insurer Kinsale Capital Group Ltd. yesterday announced the formation of a new US specialty insurer.
Kinsale Insurance Company, Inc., based in Richmond, Virginia, carries a rating of A- (excellent) from AM Best.
KIC underwrites commercia...
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