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This week, a return to basics. The goal here is not necessarily to attain great wealth in your lifetime, but to build, over the years, a degree of financial security that will help to guarantee that you spend your declining years with what you need, ...
DATE: Apr 26, 2008
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Only two companies saw trading action on a day which ended with no change to the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index yesterday.
There was plenty of trading activity around Butterfield Bank, which saw 13,055 shares change hands and closed...
DATE: Apr 26, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Standard & Poor's raised its projection for losses on US sub-prime residential mortgage- backed securities issued in 2007 to 23 percent from 17.3 percent amid a worsening housing market.
Transactions from last year will have cu...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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Bermuda International Business Association (BIBA) chief executive Cheryl Packwood will be leading an Island delegation to Alternative Investment Summit Brasil 2008 next week.
Ms Packwood will be accompanied by Peter Hughes of Apex Fund Services, Eliz...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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Insurance giant American International Group (AIG) has announced funding for environmentally friendly projects that would offset the equivalent of all the greenhouse gases the company produced in 2006.
The projects, which include reforestation, the u...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) fell slightly yesterday, as three companies saw their share price dip and two advanced.
But the BSX Insurance Index saw impressive gains, adding 20.65 points (1.94 percent) to close the day on 1,...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd. yesterday reported first-quarter earnings of $189.4 million as underwriting income fell by more than 20 percent.
Broken down, the profit amounted to $2.78 per share and was down four percent from the same three-m...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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A website providing teenagers, parents and educators with internet safety tips was created by the Government and launched yesterday.
The website, Cybertips.bm, will provide practical tips, resources and contact information as well as advocating respo...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Weak quarterly sales of Windows software and a below-target profit forecast for the current quarter overshadowed a strong outlook for the year ahead from Microsoft Corp, driving its shares down five percent yesterday.
The world's ...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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Finance IQ is planning to hold a conference in Bermuda in July to spell out the advantages of insurance-linked securities to investors.
The fourth Insurance Linked Securities Summit will be staged from July 16-18 at the Fairmont Southampton.
It will ...
DATE: Apr 25, 2008
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