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Bermuda-based Scottish Re Group Limited, a global life reinsurance specialist, yesterday announced the sale of its Middle East Life portfolio to Arab Insurance Group (Arig), one of the largest reinsurance companies in the Middle East and North Africa...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Fairmont Bermuda yesterday announced the hiring or promotion of seven employees in the second quarter of 2007.
Elisha Miller, a Bermudian, has been appointed to the position of learning and development manager for the Fairmont Southampton. Ms Miller ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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NAIROBI (Bloomberg) — Kenya plans to raise 2.28 billion shillings ($34.4 million) selling shares in state-owned Kenya Reinsurance Corporation in an initial public offering next month, said Finance Minister Amos Kimunya yesterday.The government will s...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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BOSTON (AP) — RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for the police and the Pentagon.By adding Tasers to robots it ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Two of the founding shareholders of Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited are selling up all their shares — just under eight million, which represents 10 percent of the company's total ordinary shares — worth around $227 million.
Aspen will ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Bermuda Aviation Services Ltd. is suing the Government over what the company says is a breach of its exclusive rights to provide private jet services at L.F. Wade International Airport.
The company, together with its subsidiary Aircraft Services, has...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Accenture Limited, the world's second-biggest technology consulting firm, said third-quarter net income rose about one percent as revenue in Asia and Europe surged. The company also raised its earnings forecast fo...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Bermuda law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman is expanding its practice in the Cayman Islands to include litigation services.
Two litigation attorneys, Nigel Meeson, QC, and Fraser Hughes joined the firm over the last two weeks.
Mr. Meeson, a senior Englis...
DATE: Jun 28, 2007
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LONDON - Britain's top share index dipped 0.48 percent, with banks and miners taking a lashing as investors worried about higher interest rates and how a troubled US subprime mortgage market may hit the US economy. The FTSE 100 closed down 31.7 point...
DATE: Jun 28, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rallied yesterday, reversing the Dow Jones industrial average's three-day losing streak, but investors still appeared skittish ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.Stocks initially dropped after the Commer...
DATE: Jun 28, 2007
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