This is the evolution of money market mutual funds, part two.
A little over two years ago, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted significant amendments to the rules that govern money market mutual funds under the US Investment Company Ac...
Discussions of a possible British exit from the European Union often centre on how the move would affect Britain itself.
It’s only natural, since British voters are the ones who will make the decision, and they care mainly about their own country.
T...
Europe is gearing up for a summer of discontent. There’s the British referendum on European Union membership, a simmering refugee crisis and an increasingly desperate European Central Bank.
Taken together, this list gives reason enough to be fearful...
Shadow education minister Lovitta Foggo believes Bermuda’s education system should take precedence over a new airport or the America’s Cup in light of the damning school reorganisation report.
While Ms Foggo said she could not place the blame for the...
Ours is not a time of robust self-confidence and national pride.
The prevailing mood is one of muted pessimism and concern; fatalism and resignation have largely replaced faith in ourselves and our country.
For decades the buoyant Bermudian self-imag...
DATE: Aug 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Government will save an estimated $25 million this year by freezing most vacant Government jobs, Finance Minister Bob Richards yesterday told a post-Budget Chamber of Commerce meeting.
And he said that Government planned to introduce measures to make...
DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
In recent months, two things have become increasingly clear about the One Bermuda Alliance: they have run out of ideas to create quality jobs for Bermudians and diversify our economy, and they are now in permanent election campaign mode.
Twenty-five ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: David Burt, Premier of Bermuda
LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK became the latest country to take aim at multinational tax avoidance, announcing a new levy on companies that “artificially” shift their profits into havens, a move prompted by growing international outrage at manoeuvres u...
Criticism of Government as “uncaring” drew a hard-hitting response from Senator Michael Fahy as the Upper House debated the Throne Speech.
Taking “great umbrage” at the accusation that the One Bermuda Alliance neglected Bermudian jobs, Sen Fahy said ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
By Christopher Famous
An open letter to Bermuda’s civil servants:
“Bermuda values and needs your services. Your jobs will be safe under an OBA Government. Our approach will be to freeze the growth of the civil service and allow it to shrink by attrit...
DATE: Oct 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Christopher Famous