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Women in Hedge Funds group to launch

A new philanthropy group for women in business will launch next week. The new group 100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) has already notched up more than 100 members and will officially launch at the Global Hedge Fund Forum, to be held at the Fairmont S...
Jun 18, 2015
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Bermuda named on EU tax haven list

Bermuda has been named by the European Union as a country that is not doing enough to crack down on tax avoidance. The Island was one of 30 countries on the list published by the EU’s executive Commission today. “These tax havens cover the five conti...
Jun 17, 2015
Opinion Writer

Inflation and the ‘Uber effect’

On the taxi ride back home from the LF Wade International Airport a couple of weeks ago my unapologetic driver informed me the fare had gone from the usual $30 to about $40, a 33 per cent increase. That made me think of a topic which I believe every ...
Jun 16, 2015
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Regulation extends US tax filing date

For those US citizens and resident aliens who reside outside the United States the deadline for filing your 2014 US Federal individual income tax return and FinCEN Form 114 Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts has arrived. 2014 Form 1040 Tre...
Jun 12, 2015
Other

Chip-and-pin move may hurt small businesses

As a business owner who serves small businesses, Alastair Williams is well positioned to gauge recovery in that sector of Bermuda’s economy. “Are we beginning to see these ‘green shoots’ appearing?” Mr Williams asked The Royal Gazette as part of our ...
Jun 10, 2015
Opinion Writer

Sinking bond prices and what you need to know

What should you do, if anything, about sinking bond prices? Seeking Alpha’s Wall Street Breakfast reported last Thursday morning that “bond yields continued their sell-off as the six-week bond rout rumbled on. Further United States Treasury yields r...
Jun 06, 2015
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Bermuda closing in on Solvency II equivalence

Bermuda has been awarded provisional equivalence with tough new rules on business solvency by the European Commission. The Island joins Australia, Brazil, Canada and the US in a delegated decision by the Commission under the Solvency II regulations, ...
Jun 05, 2015
Economy

Euromoney expects Bermuda economy to pick up

Bonds offered by the Bermuda Government offer the lowest risk for investors of any country in the Caribbean region, according to Euromoney’s Country Risk (ECR) survey. Bermuda ranks 44 in the magazine’s global rankings, on the same level as Spain and...
Jun 01, 2015
International Business

Law changes aimed at boosting funds sector

Partnerships will gain more of the same rights as businesses under amendments to the law that Government hopes will boost the Island’s asset management sector. Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons said the changes to the Partnership Act 1902 w...
Jun 01, 2015
Other

Monthly update: your share of the debt

Just two months into the Bermuda Government’s 2015-16 fiscal year, the public debt is taking its toll. The graphic above shows the cost of merely servicing the debt for the months of April and May equates to more than $560 for every Bermudian man, w...
Jun 01, 2015
Economy

Inflation rate falls to five-year low

The annual rate of inflation hit its lowest point in more than five years in March, as prices rose 1.2 per cent from a year earlier. Government statistics released today showed how the slump in global oil prices has slowed down the increase in the co...
May 29, 2015
Other

Lespere is new COO at BMA

A Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) veteran has been appointed the organisation’s chief operations officer. Shanna Lespere, who has worked in a variety of roles in her more than a decade with the Island’s financial watchdog, moves from her current pos...
May 26, 2015
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