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A hedge fund manager who used to work in Bermuda as a reinsurance actuary is finding great success in his new career in Singapore.
Leow Kah Shin, a former employee of Max Capital (now known as Alterra Capital Holdings), now runs Quantedge Capital, wh...
DATE: Jan 10, 2011
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - American International Group Inc. (AIG), recipient of a $182.3 billion US government rescue, agreed to pay $450 million to rivals to settle claims it shortchanged industry-funded pools that insure injured workers.
Travelers Cos...
DATE: Jan 10, 2011
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Bermuda-based CatCo Investment Management Ltd. has brought a capital markets approach to the reinsurance industry - and in the firm's early months of operation it has already proved popular with investors and reinsurance buyers alike.
CatCo's chief e...
DATE: Jan 10, 2011
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Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore has expanded its global network with the formation of Ironshore Europe Ltd, which will be domiciled in Dublin, Ireland.
Fiona Marry has been appointed CEO of the new insurer, reporting to the Ironshore Europe board cha...
DATE: Jan 06, 2011
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) American International Group Inc., the insurer selling assets to repay a US bailout, told regulators it was offered as much as $3 billion for its Taiwan-based unit Nan Shan Life Insurance Co.
“Prospective buyers have approached A...
DATE: Jan 06, 2011
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Satellite telecommunications firm Kiskadee Communications (Bermuda) Ltd is suing two officers of fellow Bermuda-based company ProtoStar Ltd for $18.25 million in compensatory damages.
Kiskadee's principal shareholders are listed as Bermudian business...
DATE: Jan 06, 2011
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NORWAY (Bloomberg) - Seadrill Ltd., owner of the second-largest fleet of deepwater rigs, rose in Oslo trading after agreeing to buy two ultra-deepwater rigs under construction at the Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. for $1.2 billion.
Seadrill rose as much as...
DATE: Jan 05, 2011
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Florida has lowered its barriers of entry to Bermuda-based Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd.
The hurricane-prone state has now approved seven reinsurers to have lower collateral requirements, six of them based in Bermuda.
The new rules are based on legisl...
DATE: Jan 05, 2011
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XL Group plc has hired Kimberly Holmes from Bermuda market rival Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd to be its senior vice-president of strategic analytics.
The company also announced that its insurance operations arm XL Insurance had named Matthias Hor...
DATE: Jan 05, 2011
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Bermuda-based re/insurer Everest Re Group Ltd said it bought Heartland Crop Insurance Inc to help it expand into a different area of the insurance industry.
Everest Re, which is mainly a reinsurer, paid $55 million for Heartland, plus an agreed upon...
DATE: Jan 05, 2011
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