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The World Insurance Forum (WIF) is to be held in Dubai next year — the first time in the conference's 14-year history it will have been held outside Bermuda.
WIF project coordinator Suzie Pewter yesterday declined to comment on the change of venue fo...
DATE: Jun 01, 2007
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Bermuda-based corporate finance and consulting firm, Isis Limited, yesterday announced the establishment of a new fund administration company, Isis Fund Services Ltd.
The company will be based in Hamilton and will be applying for a fund administrator...
DATE: Jun 01, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Four current and former partners of Ernst & Young LLP, the second-largest US accounting firm, were charged with tax fraud in an expansion of the US government's crackdown on illegal shelters.The four were indicted for marketing...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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BEIJING (AP) — China's move to raise a tax on share trades, aimed at slowing a boom that could lead to a possible market bubble, seems to have worked, at least for now.The main Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 6.5 percent to 4,071.27 yesterday after ...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street advanced sharply, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index to its first record close in more than seven years, as investors grew more confident the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates in the second half of the year. Th...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Frontline Ltd., the world's biggest oil-tanker company by carrying capacity, said first-quarter profit fell 26 percent after ship-hire rates dropped because of OPEC production cuts and the warmest winter on record.N...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Protesters besieged a major pipeline centre feeding a Royal Dutch Shell PLC oil export terminal in Nigeria, forcing the company to suspend exports of 150,000 barrels a day, a company official said yesterday.The protesters tamper...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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The "hard" property insurance market that started in 2006 has ended as premiums fall and coverage broadens, insurance broker Willis Group said in a report released yesterday.
But in areas exposed to catastrophes such as hurricanes, floods and earthqu...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK government will sell about $2.56 billion ($5.1 billion) of shares in British Energy Group Plc to pay for the decommissioning costs of nuclear reactors owned by the country's biggest power generator.The sale of as many as 4...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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St. John's University's School of Risk Management (SRM), a division of The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, will host its fifth annual "Gathering of Friends, Educators and Students" today at the Coral Beach and Tennis Club.
The event was made poss...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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