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BERLIN (Reuters) — US catastrophe reinsurance prices, which have come under heavy pressure, held up better than had been expected in critical recent contract renewals, the chief executive of Bermuda reinsurer PartnerRe said yesterday.The discussions ...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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Bermuda's leading online security provider QuoVadis is set to benefit from a multi-million dollar investment by US-based private equity firm ABRY Partners, LLC, The Royal Gazette can exclusively reveal.
The Hamilton-based company will use the funds t...
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US investor Van Den Berg Management Inc. raised its stake in Bermuda-based asset manager WP Stewart & Co. to 25.1 percent, according to a regulatory filing yesterday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Austin, Texas-based investor rep...
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Maiden Insurance has been awarded an A- financial strength rating for its excellent capitalisation achieved through its parent Maiden Holdings Ltd.
A.M. Best also assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of "a-" to the company. And it also presented an...
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While the main focus of CPAs and taxpayers has been on the filing of 2006 US Federal individual income tax returns, Congress has been focused on numerous changes to the Internal Revenue Code and the Treasury Department and the Courts have been busy w...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — New European Union rules to control the capital insurers set aside for their underwriting may hasten the consolidation in the industry, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said.The so-called Solvency II rules, a draft of w...
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DALLAS (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most popular internet search engine, agreed to buy closely held Postini Inc. for $625 million, adding e-mail security services to its programs for small businesses.Postini, based in San Carlos, Californi...
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The Royal Gazette/BSX Index inched closer to an all-time high yesterday.
The Index closed on 5,179.15, a change of 28.93 (0.56 percent), almost 10 points behind the record figure of 5,188.66 posted on May 2.
Volume was 4,350 shares and turnover $47,2...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Airbus SAS, the world's largest plane-maker, posted a sixfold increase in first-half aircraft orders, allowing the company to pull ahead of Boeing Co. in new contracts for the first time in a year.The plane-maker won 680 firm pur...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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Entrepreneurial spirit among Bermudian teenagers will be nurtured at Bermuda College over the next two weeks during BizCamp.
The camp, spearheaded by the Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative of Bermuda (YEIB), and backed up with financial support from G...
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