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Scott Stallard is not your average businessman. When he's not running his gym, The Olympic Club, in Dundonald Street, he's likely to be capturing images from some remote corner of the world on his camera. Mr. Stallard spoke with business reporter Ale...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aflac Inc said quarterly net earnings dropped 48 percent, hurt by soured investments, but forecast strong 2009 earnings growth and shares rose more than seven percent.
Fourth-quarter net profit fell to $197 million, or 42 cents a...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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US experts will shed light on US taxes and investment strategies in volatile markets at the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce next week in a special panel discussion.
Kathy Boyle, CFP, president of Chapin Hill Advisors based in New York and James Sabo a US...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Langbar International Ltd., a Bermuda-based investment company at the centre of a fraud scandal, won a ruling in London against its ex-chief financial officer and a former director.
Justice William Blackburne ruled that former CF...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Former Citigroup Inc. chief executive officer Sanford (Sandy) Weill gave up his right to use the bank's corporate aircraft immediately.
Weill's move comes after the New York Post reported that Weill and his family took a vacati...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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Employees are concerned about their jobs as the reality that the economic crisis is hitting Bermuda begins to sink in, according to the Employee Assistance programme (EAP).
Martha Pitman, executive director of the EAP, said a number of workers and em...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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Insurance proved to be the busiest sector on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
Argus Group Holdings Ltd. and BF&M Ltd. boosted their share prices by 20 cents (2.15 percent) and five cents (0.28 percent) respectively.
Arg...
DATE: Feb 03, 2009
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BF&M Ltd. has expanded its global reach with the launch a new satellite information technology centre in Nova Scotia - the insurance company's first such office in Canada.
The insurer, which had contracted work out to the office for almost five years...
DATE: Feb 02, 2009
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All too often in these difficult times, it seems that companies have bad news to announce. Every day, we hear of falling profits, redundancies and downsizing.
How the bad news is relayed will have a large impact on how it is received by employees, sh...
DATE: Feb 02, 2009
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Jonathan Kent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are hoping swift action on an economic stimulus plan will boost Wall Street this week after its worst January ever.
The stream of bleak news reached fever pitch after US companies shed more than 200,000 jobs in January ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2009
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