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One of the insurance industry's leading publications, Insurance Day, is setting up an informal bureau in Bermuda to cover local insurance stories.
The paper has sent an editor, Richard Banks, to be "embedded" in Bermuda until the end of April.
Mr. Ba...
DATE: Mar 20, 2003
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NEW YORK -- Frontpoint Partners LLC, the hedge-fund firm founded by former executives of Tiger Management and Soros Fund Management, said Tuesday it added an investment team that will focus on health-care-related stocks.
The new team has expertise in...
DATE: Mar 20, 2003
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John Burke (above) has been named chief executive officer of Annuity & Life Re (Holdings) Ltd. Previously, he was chief financial officer of the troubled life reinsurer.
Mr. Burke succeeds Robert Lichten, who was named acting chief executive officer ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2003
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Government Senate leader Colonel David Burch on Monday warned businesses to keep out of politics after some criticised the Progressive Labour Party (PLP).
He said he was "a little tired and a little weary" of retailers blaming Government and others, ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2003
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said yesterday that it affirmed its 'A+' counterparty credit rating on PartnerRe Ltd. and its 'AA' counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on PartnerRe Ltd.'s core subsidiaries.
But it assigned a negative...
DATE: Mar 19, 2003
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Sony and Philips have launched two new types of recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single compact disc.
Of course, the recording industry is up in arms about this latest development in the technology,...
DATE: Mar 19, 2003
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Troubled Bermuda insurer Trenwick Group Ltd. has been thrown another lifeline by its investors, who have extended a deadline until Friday for the company to refinance $75 million in senior debt or risk default under a credit facility supporting its u...
DATE: Mar 19, 2003
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd.'s ADT security alarm business is under fire on four continents as the unit's accounting problems and contract disputes threaten to undermine the conglomerate's efforts to regain credibility.
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DATE: Mar 19, 2003
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Accounting scandals and revelations that highly paid analysts had inflated recommendations on companies that their banks were advising have caused obvious damage to the equities markets.
They may also have affected the corporate debt market, a tradit...
DATE: Mar 19, 2003
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Bermuda-registered ESG Re Ltd. announced yesterday that will deregister its common stock in the wake of being delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
ESG Re was delisted from Nasdaq on February 4 after it failed to file its audited financial stateme...
DATE: Mar 19, 2003
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