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Organisers of the World Insurance Forum (WIF) to be held in Dubai said it will be "the the single largest and most important event ever organised by Bermudians outside the Island".
Statesmen, top insurance and reinsurance executives and even "world l...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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Bermuda-based Equinoxe Alternative Investment Services, a newly formed premium boutique fund administrator, yesterday announced that a wholly-owned subsidiary of XL Capital Ltd. has made a significant minority investment in Equinoxe.
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DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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American International Group Inc. (AIG) has become the latest company to terminate a Bermuda-based sidecar, a trend brought about largely by the lack of catastrophes in the past two years.
AIG's $730 million Bermuda-based sidecar Concord Re was set u...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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Bermuda's international business sector was given an education in reinsurance at a seminar held at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess this week.
The course, entitled 'Demystifying Reinsurance', which was held on Wednesday and yesterday and hosted by The ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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FRANKFURT, (Reuters) - The president of Germany's financial watchdog BaFin broke his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since the sub-prime crisis rattled Germany and warned that it could also suck in insurers.
"Insurers don't invest in a ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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In retrospect, the most intriguing sub-plot in the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market has been not the size of the losses but their distribution.
Wall Street firms have a talent for getting themselves into trouble together. They all were long ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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Bermudians Keira Petty and Zoe Roberts have been named as new associates at Mello Jones & Martin's corporate practice group.
Both Ms Petty and Ms Roberts joined the firm as pupils in 2006 and were called to the Bermuda Bar in September and October 20...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke yesterday threw his support behind efforts to craft an economic stimulus package and repeated that the US central bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks.
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DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has approached bigger rival Marsh & McLennan Cos with a view to starting talks about a possible takeover of Marsh & McLennan, according to a report on CNBC television yesterday afternoo...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US regulators sued a Russian trader for hijacking customer accounts at firms including E Trade Financial Corp. and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. in 2006, part of a spate of break-ins at online brokerages.
Anatoly Russ, 25, stole ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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