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GENEVA (Bloomberg) — Banque Benedict Hentsch, a Geneva-based private bank, has merged with New York hedge fund manager Fairfield Greenwich Group to combine wealth and alternative asset client advice.
Together the two money managers will supervise $18...
DATE: Sep 09, 2008
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XL Capital Ltd. yesterday announced that it has appointed Jacob Rosengarten as executive vice-president and chief enterprise risk officer of the XL group of companies.
Mr. Rosengarten, a managing director of Goldman Sachs, will join XL on September 1...
DATE: Sep 09, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - Workers at Britain's Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant have voted for industrial action in a pay dispute, their trade union said yesterday.
Blue collar members of the GMB trade union voted by 81.5 percent for strike action...
DATE: Sep 09, 2008
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ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — Hurricane Gustav will cost the global insurance industry up to US$8 billion, Swiss Reinsurance Co. said yesterday.
Insured damages from natural disasters through the end of August were 20 percent higher than in the same per...
DATE: Sep 09, 2008
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Conducting effective meetings and building high performance teams will be the focus for a series of seminars held at the Bermuda Insurance Institute (BII) this month.
The seminars, which will be given by Paul Loftus, a Montreal-based international ma...
DATE: Sep 09, 2008
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Bermuda-based financial guarantor Primus Guaranty said yesterday it expected minimal impact resulting from the decision of the US Government to seize control of the US mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Primus stated that that its exposure ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2008
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Charities and students benefited from a $36 million windfall from the Bank of Bermuda Foundation during its first 18 years.
In a letter to shareholders in the Foundation Annual Report 2007, Joseph Johnson, chairman of the bank's charitable arm, said ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2008
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Allied World Assurance Company has became the latest member of the Bermuda insurance market to establish a Swiss connection.
The company announced late yesterday afternoon that it will open a branch office in Zug, Switzerland that offers reinsurance ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2008
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The major players in the global reinsurance industry are mixing business and pleasure this week at the annual Les Rendez-Vous de Septembre congress in Monte Carlo.
With Monaco's glamorous port city as a back drop, top executives from Bermuda-based re...
DATE: Sep 08, 2008
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The offshore oil and gas industry has suffered minimal damage in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.
That is according to John Jenks, chief executive officer of Anemos Insurance Management Ltd., an offshore energy business underwriter which writes offshore...
DATE: Sep 08, 2008
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