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When Alexander Butterfield completes his university education in the US he should be well-placed to enter the world of big business, and he can thank a Bermuda-based reinsurance for giving him a helping hand to cover the cost of enrolling at Georgia ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006
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Cable & Wireless this week revealed the basis on which it had calculated its offer of $17 a share to acquire KeyTech. (Since KeyTech has subsequently issued a share dividend in the form of shares, the offer from Cable & Wireless, which stands, now eq...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) ? Climate change may be one of the biggest threats to attempts to cutting poverty in the world?s most deprived nations and has forced the World Bank to reassess its development projects, the bank said yesterday.
Studies have shown...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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Despite all of the efforts made by the island?s politicians, Bermuda remains one of the few developed places in the world to be without a broadband connection.
And as one of the richest places to live in the world, Internet connection remains priced ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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Axis Capital Holdings has appointed chief audit executive to its executive management group.
As chief audit executive, Mr. Anderson directs the daily activities of the Company?s internal audit function and coordinates management?s implementation of S...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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A US insurer has floated a second $300 million catastrophe bond to protect itself from potential losses resulting from unusual earthquake activity in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada.
The privately placed bond follows vali...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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The stock prices of Bermuda-based catastrophe reinsurers gained ground yesterday even as Tropical Storm Ernesto drew a bead of southern Florida.
RenaissanceRe led the way, closing up 2.61 percent at $49.95 while White Mountains jumped 1.79 percent to...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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NEW YORK ? As Tropical Storm Ernesto heads towards Florida?s Southeast coast, property casualty insurers and reinsurers in the state are in better shape to handle the losses than they were last year, even if a big storm hits a major city there.
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DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index rose 13.2 points to close at 4.926.70 in near-moribund trading yesterday.
Just two stocks traded, with 1,870 shares worth $88,422.50 changing hands.
Butterfield Bank was the Index?s driver, rising 25 cen...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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Some Bermuda reinsurers have been accused of underestimating their likely losses from a major hurricane by a prominent insurance analyst.
MarketWatch reported yesterday that research by Cliff Gallant, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, showed tha...
DATE: Aug 29, 2006
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