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validus Q3
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Net income: $37 million compared to $139 million in 2007.
Combined ratio: 89.5 percent compared to 63.1 percent in 2007.
Gross premiums written: $191.7 million compared to $191 million in 2007./B>
Validus Holdings Ltd. last nig...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market made a late-day comeback, hoping that homeowners will get more help with their mortgages.
A Reuters report that the government plans to subsidise troubled homeowners' mortgage payments helped the Dow Jones industrial ...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc.'s financial products unit, which brought the firm to the verge of collapse with bad bets on credit-default swaps, is being investigated by UK prosecutors for possible criminal conduct.
Investigat...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly five million Americans continued to draw jobless benefits late last month, and new requests again exceeded 600,000 as companies lay off scores of workers amid a deepening recession.
In slightly better economic news, retail sa...
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Fitch has maintained a "negative" rating outlook for the Bermuda insurance and reinsurance market — but it believes that the Island's companies are less likely to be downgraded than competitors elsewhere.
Uncertainty tied to the continued highly vola...
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Butterfield Asset Management (BAM) has won an Offshore Money Fund Award from iMoneyNet.
The Butterfield Money Market Fund (Euro Class) was cited as the top Euro-denominated fund reporting to iMoneyNet's Offshore Money Fund Report.
John Humphreys, ma...
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ARGO GROUP Q4
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Net income: $11.8 million compared to $23.5 million in 2007.
Combined ratio: 98.6 percent compared to 95.2 percent in 2007.
Gross premiums written: $379.6 million compared to $284.4 million in 2007.
Bermuda-based Argo Group ...
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It's a dog's life for Richard Brindle, Lancashire Holdings Ltd.'s top boss.
For the executive director, chief executive officer and chairman of the Group underwriting committee, who balances his time between the company's headquarters in Bermuda and ...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index rose yesterday, struggling up from a 1.7 percent drop earlier in the day, boosted partly by strength in the resource-laden materials sector.
The rally came in the last half hour of the trading day. Analy...
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Insurer Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. is offering a scholarship that includes a commitment to employ successful applicants for a minimum of one year.
The scholarship is worth $25,000 a year to a Bermudian student entering either the junior or senior yea...
DATE: Feb 13, 2009
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