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Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. boosted its profits by almost 50 percent for the first quarter 2008.
The Bermuda-based international specialty insurer and reinsurer for the casualty and property market saw its net income climb 47 percent to $3...
DATE: May 06, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has begun competing with MBIA Inc. and Ambac Financial Group Inc. to insure municipal bonds, said some rivals don't deserve their AAA credit ratings.
Credit-rating firms...
DATE: May 06, 2008
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It was the end of an era at XL Capital Ltd. last week when Brian O'Hara's 14-year tenure as chief executive officer of the global commercial insurer concluded. Mr. O'Hara, who was XL's first employee when the company was established in the mid-1980s,...
DATE: May 05, 2008
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If the number of lime green Bermuda beach bags spotted around the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) 2008 conference in San Diego were anything to go by, then the event was a big hit for the Bermuda booth.
With just over an hour of the conf...
DATE: May 05, 2008
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The Argus Group was the biggest climber on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) last week.
The insurer, pension administrator and invesment group saw its share price gain 95 cents to close the week on $16.95, on the trading of 21,850 ...
DATE: May 05, 2008
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An American company which won a multi-million-dollar US government contract to train police officers in Iraq has been accused of using its Bermuda-based shell company to shield itself from US taxes.
Yesterday's edition of the Boston Globe reported th...
DATE: May 05, 2008
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Among all the insurers, banks and other financial services firms, a recruitment company from Bermuda was making its debut at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) 2008 conference in San Diego this week.
Expertise, based in Burnaby Street, ...
DATE: May 05, 2008
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Bermuda's large Portuguese-speaking population was seen as an advantage at an investment summit in Brazil last week.
The Bermuda International Business Association (BIBA) and its delegation of international business executives participated in the Alt...
DATE: May 05, 2008
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This is the last of a three-part series on researching the purchase of a condominium. Note that this is a general discussion of this form of home ownership that in no way describes, or is directed toward, any specific condominium association. The aut...
DATE: May 03, 2008
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She hooked me with the word "debt". "The word alone causes people's blood pressure to rise. It's a hard-sounding word, phonetically in sync with its impact on people's lives," writes Tamara Draut in the foreword to the compelling "Up to Our Eyeballs:...
DATE: May 03, 2008
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