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Bermuda's insurance leaders are more concerned about cycle management and underwriting discipline than any other single issue, a survey released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has shown.
Chief executive officers polled for the accountancy firm...
DATE: Jul 24, 2008
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Bermuda insurance companies need to be making strategic plans that may involve restructuring in order to ensure that imminent sweeping changes to European Union regulation of the industry do not put them at a competitive disadvantage.
But the opportu...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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KeyTech Ltd. dropped $1.05 (7.14 percent) to close at $13.65 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index yesterday.
The utilities company traded a total of 2,500 shares during the day.
Other traders included Butterfield Bank (12,041 shares) and...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd. managed to boost its profit margin during tough trading conditions over the second quarter of 2008.
The re/insurer saw its net income rise by $11.7 million or 12.9 percent from $90.7 million in this year's second q...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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Here is a tip on a better way to get an image of what appears in your current monitor. A screenshot, screen capture, or screen grab is a way of taking an image of the visible items parts of a computer monitor. Such screenshots are very useful for a v...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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With car sales dropping 24 percent in May alone, dealerships said it was hard not to notice a lack of customers.
But some are optimistic that current housing developments will create new opportunities.
The Retail Sales Index revealed sales were down ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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Bermuda reinsurer Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd.'s second-quarter net income fell 13 percent to $44.1 million, or 51 cents per share, the company announced yesterday.
But Montpelier's operating income climbed to $63.3 million, or 73 cents per share, com...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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Entrepreneurs recieved useful advice at the Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation's (BSBDC) first legal seminar yesterday.
On hand were experts from Coldwell Banker, Rego Realtors, King & Associates and Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki offering...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross said Bermuda-based Assured Guaranty Ltd. doesn't need to raise additional capital and that he plans to talk with Moody's Investors Service about its review of the bond insurer's Aaa rating.
Ross...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Assured Guaranty Ltd., which owns one of two bond insurers to have retained Aaa credit ratings, said its second-quarter profit would surge by more than 14 times because of gains in credit derivatives.
The company, whose second-...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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