This is chapter five of the New Bermuda Investment Series. This week we discuss the evolution of money market mutual funds. Please note, this information is general in nature. It is not intended as a detailed analysis of the US sub-prime mortgage mar...
A successful seminar that included a talk on cybersecurity and the US regulatory environment is to be followed up by a series of “lunch and learn” sessions.
Oyster Consulting (Bermuda) Ltd, which last week ran a regulatory compliance workshop to disc...
Insurance and reinsurance giant XL Catlin has joined forces with international academics and computer experts to better track hurricane forecasts and the evolution of major storms.
A new website, set up with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Co...
DATE: Aug 04, 2016 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Kiahna Trott-Edwards will face a retrial after her conviction and sentence for murdering a teenage boy was set aside.
The mother of three, 33, was found guilty last year of murdering Shijuan Mungal, 16, by striking him around the head with a baseball...
Dear Sir,
Our utility, Belco, is a monopoly; this is no new truth. This monopoly has one job to do, like any business: to provide a satisfying return to its shareholders year over year. Who pays this return? We, the people of Bermuda, do.
Belco h...
DATE: Aug 03, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
A top IT consultant from London is to be the keynote speaker at a conference in Bermuda on cybersecurity.
Darren Wray, chief executive officer of IT firm Fifth Step, will feature at the Secure Bermuda 2016 conference, to be held next Wednesday.
Mr Wr...
DATE: Aug 03, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening — it’s the little things that count in Bermuda. Etiquette expert Trudy Snaith has written Bermuda Shorts & More to help people who are new to the island fit in. The book covers “cultural etiquette faux pas” ...
DATE: Aug 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
A colourful band of revellers armed with satire and swizzle took to the waters at Mangrove Bay, bidding farewell to Cup Match with the traditional Non-Mariners Race.
Among those hammering and spray-painting makeshift entries on the beach yesterday mo...
DATE: Aug 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Part 2 — the New Bermuda Investment Primer Series: the Concept Of Capital Equity, following a successful mom-and-pop pizza business.
Stocks constitute equity in a company. The shareholders of the company are owners of these shares, somewhat akin to ...
A Bermuda College course launched in 2012 to address a shortage of nurses on the island has yet to produce a single qualified nurse.
Seventeen students have so far graduated from the college’s Nursing Pathways Programme with an Associate Degree in Sc...
DATE: Jul 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways