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Window dressing refers to a practice used by some companies to improve the appearance of financial information before the close of an accounting period and reporting to investors or creditors.
There are many forms of window dressing, ranging from s...
DATE: Oct 30, 2014
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Myth #24: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
Most people are familiar with this commonly quoted phrase as being from one of Shakespeare’s plays. It is used to mock and vilify lawyers and exemplifies the ordinary person’s frustrat...
DATE: Oct 30, 2014
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The town of St George’s will welcome a rare commodity this week when the cruise ship, Regatta, and her 700 passengers pull into port.
The liner was last in the East End back in April. She is one of just a handful of ships small enough to transit Town...
DATE: Oct 29, 2014
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Demographic studies are showing that people are living longer these days. The latest results indicate that if you make it to age 65, then there is a 50 percent chance that you could live another 25-30 years on average. Thus for some persons, it is po...
DATE: Oct 29, 2014
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Bermuda computer pioneer Martin Cusack, who helped bring the Island into the digital age, has died at the age of 93.
Mr Cusack, who died last month, worked for electronics firm NCR in the 1950s and was responsible for the first electronic payments sy...
DATE: Oct 29, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Recovery. In business many are aware that the response you make to any negative situation is often a better measure of your effectiveness and teamwork than when you are in “normal” circumstances. The two storms that Bermuda experienced in the space o...
DATE: Oct 28, 2014
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By Rebecca Zuill
Ikonic Fund Services has won the HFMWeek Best Administrator Award for Fund of Hedge Funds under $30 billion, and was also the fund administrator with the most nominations.
The award was made last week at the 2014 HFMWeek Service Prov...
DATE: Oct 28, 2014
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Butterfield Bank’s third-quarter profit totalled $22.8 million — up by 5.5 percent from the same period of last year.
Net income for the first nine months of the year increased by $5.7 million to $73.5 million, the bank said in a statement this after...
DATE: Oct 28, 2014
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Jonathan Kent
Bermuda’s current account fell by $108 million in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2013, the latest Government figures have revealed.
The current account stood at $215 million in the quarter which finished at the end of J...
DATE: Oct 27, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The mechanics of a bond security are not easily understood.
A bond is a securitised loan. Securitisation is a process that enables the bond (dresses it up) to be bought and sold easily in an open electronic securities exchange, similar to the manner...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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