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Private equity firms, until recently the high flyers of finance, have had a tough summer.
Not only are they suddenly struggling to finance leveraged buyouts the market once welcomed, the companies they've taken public have lately been bombing with in...
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Profit at Merrill Lynch & Co. could take a big hit if the US brokerage heavyweight cuts the value on nearly $1 billion in subprime lender assets it bought just eight months ago.
Analysts said they would expect Merrill Lynch to wr...
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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White Mountains Insurance Group has elected Yves Brouillette as a company director.
Mr. Brouillette is a retired insurance executive. He spent most of his career as chief executive officer of insurance for ING in Canada and Latin America. He is curr...
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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The world's financial markets are set to remain volatile for months to come - that is the verdict of a group of Bermuda's senior investment and economic experts.
The Investment Roundtable Discussion, which was hosted by LOM Asset Management's headqua...
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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The Bermuda Stock Exchange has been advised by Lines Overseas Management Limited (LOM), that on August 1, it repurchased and cancelled 10,000 of its own shares at a price of $3.75 per share.
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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State and federal regulators continue to warn investors about new investment scams, especially during a time like this when people are desperately looking for better returns in a declining market.
But two tried and true scams — pyramid and multilevel...
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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BOSTON (AP) — Dunkin' Donuts, the food-on-the-go chain whose name celebrates a treat that's symbolic of unhealthy eating, is trying to refresh its image by largely eliminating trans fat across its menu, Homer Simpson be damned.
Dunkin' planned to ann...
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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RAM Holdings' president and chief executive officer Vernon M. Endo, and Richard Lutenski, its chief financial officer, are scheduled to present at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods 2007 Insurance Conference in New York on September 4. The presentation will...
DATE: Aug 27, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street ended its calmest week in a month with a big advance, rising on solid economic readings that countered the bleak sentiment that has blanketed the financial markets. The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 140 point...
DATE: Aug 25, 2007
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A question of liquidity and simplicity. Mr. William H Gross, Managing Director of the Pacific Investment Management Company LLC one of the largest specialty fixed income managers in the world, with more than $692 billion in assets under management, p...
DATE: Aug 25, 2007
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