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Title	Type	Date	Words
Cookies are monster risks.		Dec 1, 2009	603
Playing the numbers game.		Nov 1, 2009	616
Enhancing our healthcare.		Oct 15, 2009	559
Rotters through and through.		Oct 1, 2009	602
The monstrous tax quandary.		Sep 15, 2009	653
The Gates of hurricane hell.		Sep 1, 2009	583
A century of stagnation.		Aug 1, 2009	584
Political ironies.		Jul 1, 2009	561
Of God and governments.		Jun 1, 2009	581
It's 'the insurance,' stupid.		May 1, 2009	592
Needling the brass.		Apr 15, 2009	582
A road not taken.		Apr 1, 2009	597
P.G. Wodehouse on reinsurance.		Mar 1, 2009	575
The big Power switch: Bermuda's competitive edge has switched from less regulation to more as the Bermuda Monetary Authority toughens its rules and hardens its standards.		Mar 1, 2009	1403
Deflating the fat cats.		Jan 1, 2009	575
Pausing for a second thought about Bermuda: with governments scrambling to find every dollar they believe is owed their treasuries and vowing to slam shut corporate tax loopholes, companies rethink the advantages of doing business in the archipelago.		Jan 1, 2009	1854
Crying over spilt tea.		Dec 1, 2008	584
Off with those caps!		Nov 1, 2008	582
Stinking badgers.		Oct 15, 2008	570
Games of risk ... and insurance.		Oct 1, 2008	584
Dreading innovation.		Sep 15, 2008	588
Revising the Matthew gospel.		Sep 1, 2008	642
The whacky world of Wiki.		Aug 1, 2008	570
Rock heads rule!		Jul 1, 2008	649
Cayman and Bermuda not the only ACE place: political currents force ACE to redomesticate from Caribbean locations to Zurich, the commercial center of a landlocked nation. Others could be in line to do the same.		Jun 1, 2008	926
Offshore's sinking feeling.		Jun 1, 2008	612
Marveling at losing a billion.		May 1, 2008	640
Driving to ruin.		Apr 15, 2008	620
Backward into the future.		Apr 1, 2008	645
Dominance in dispute: Bermuda, once the reinsurance industry's unassailable leader, has seen its margin of leadership trimmed as other domiciles compete for premiums and the government looks to diversify the island's economy beyond carriers, reinsurers and captives.	Company overview	Apr 1, 2008	2636
Writing with the brain of a Cod.		Mar 1, 2008	576
Big and small rolled into one: Bermuda, just 22 square miles, is home to more than $130 billion in insurance capital. It has done so well because of the rare symbiosis between its government and the corporations it invites to do business on the island.		Mar 1, 2008	2683
2 wrongs a right do not make.		Feb 1, 2008	609
DWENA dread.		Jan 1, 2008	640
Lighting a fire: at 60, Bermuda rightly deserves a place in the insurance and reinsurance pantheon, but the island has changed, as have markets and the world around it. Yet the "Bermuda Model" proves it has the legs to compete with younger domiciles, especially when it comes to generating catastrophe capacity.	Company overview	Jan 1, 2008	3444
Soaking in the Christmas spirits.		Dec 1, 2007	638
Remember to restock, or else.		Nov 1, 2007	630
Yes, you, insurance, on the tube.		Oct 1, 2007	631
Model brains in Bermuda.		Sep 15, 2007	605
Father and Son & Co.		Sep 1, 2007	643
A quality beyond measure.		Aug 1, 2007	646
No legs to stand on.		Jul 1, 2007	595
The graveyard's where it's at.		Jun 1, 2007	660
The constant battle.		May 1, 2007	645
Pop culture Patsy.		Apr 15, 2007	638
Fla. governor's expensive trip.		Apr 1, 2007	626
The twisted life of a policy.		Mar 1, 2007	655
Laying down new rules of engagement: a new leader in Bermuda promises to tackle the issue of the rising cost of doing business by implementing labor reform.	Cover story	Mar 1, 2007	1832
Customer disservice.		Feb 1, 2007	654
Dilbertian exclusions.		Jan 1, 2007	575
Insurance? What's the use?		Dec 1, 2006	613
A bettor who won.		Nov 1, 2006	643
Peddling the re-cycled life.		Oct 15, 2006	650
How today bears on tomorrow.		Oct 1, 2006	633
Outrage at an arrogant bully.		Sep 15, 2006	637
Gordon Gekko steps ashore.		Sep 1, 2006	644
The Roger principle.		Aug 1, 2006	600
Crombie's eye for the office guy.		Jul 1, 2006	652
Homer, Virgil, Sappho--Roger?		Jun 1, 2006	668
Law & order: Montpelier.		May 1, 2006	601
Au Revoir, Oahu.		Apr 15, 2006	665
Don't we all need safe harbor?		Apr 1, 2006	620
The Belly of the Beast.		Mar 1, 2006	648
Parking capital in a new spot: "sidecar" vehicles allow reinsurers to improve their balance sheets, but with one caveat: it will be easier for investors to flee when other opportunities present themselves.		Mar 1, 2006	1270
Blinded by 'green' lights.		Feb 1, 2006	578
The idiot's Category.		Jan 1, 2006	589
Rush-in roulette: a dozen startups steam into Bermuda and pump more than $8 billion of fresh capital into the industry by the end of the fourth quarter. But rising to the surface, in the midst of the January renewal season, are questions about their credit quality and commitment to the market.	Cover Story	Jan 1, 2006	2901
Startups awash in new capital: a dozen new insurers pour into Bermuda as the Class of 2005, creating more than $8 billion in new capital to help pay for disasters that are costing in the tens of billions.		Jan 1, 2006	1195
Cat Kat's slap of cap markets.		Dec 1, 2005	630
Cannabis and captives, man.		Nov 1, 2005	624
In search of serenity cover.		Oct 15, 2005	664
Katrina's winds of change: reinsurance claims could exceed maximum policy limits with a loss of Katrina's magnitude, but will the event change the way reinsurers underwrite and weigh such catastrophes?		Oct 15, 2005	1332
Spinning modeling tourbillions.		Oct 1, 2005	570
Still in the lead: Bermuda, the global leader when it comes to hosting captive insurance companies, held its first annual captive conference in September. The hope is that the meeting will boost interest in the island, which has seen its share of the captive insurance marketplace decline over the past 15 years as the island has become more expensive and as other jurisdictions have caught up.		Oct 1, 2005	1139
My disgust of mud flingers.		Sep 15, 2005	625
Bermuda at risk.		Sep 1, 2005	586
Fighting over 'Canseco dollars'.		Aug 1, 2005	580
Ratings vs. reality.		Jul 1, 2005	609
Band of RIMS brothers: cheesesteaks finally digested, writer Roger Crombie reflects on RIMS 2005, Philadelphia, gambling losses, giant rabbits, trumpeting Marines, Hunter Thompson, a whale named Helis, a painted lady and schizophrenia. Honolulu may have dazzling sunsets, but it can't match that unique Philly charm.		Jul 1, 2005	1241
Politics triumph over justice.		Jun 1, 2005	590
My brush with global royalty.		May 1, 2005	589
Educating Roger.		Apr 15, 2005	604
Behold the slogan slugfest.		Apr 1, 2005	577
The specialist: Kenneth J. LeStrange, CEO of Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., one of the Bermuda startups formed in the wake of Sept. 11, to inject new capital into the marketplace, anchors his business model in specialty lines of business.	Cover Story	Apr 1, 2005	1817
Small, remote siblings laugh last.		Mar 1, 2005	566
Walking the plank: Bermuda leaders, looking to put their stamp on a unified nation, push for independence. Critics claim the governing Progressive Labour Party is committing political suicide. Neither voters nor big business support independence. One CEO says his firm is ready to move to Ireland should unfavorable political winds buffet his corporation.	Cover Story	Mar 1, 2005	2008
Hedge funds hog the spotlight: although hedge funds played little role in the reinsurance market five years ago, they now reportedly account for as much as half of the capital available for some specific forms of coverage, such as protection against a single storm.		Mar 1, 2005	1588
Laugh out loud: this is no joke: a CD-ROM compilation of New Yorker cartoons in the last 80 years turns up almost 100 references to insurance.		Feb 1, 2005	583
Toasting the quiet players.		Jan 1, 2005	577
More regulation be damned.		Dec 1, 2004	586
A day in the life of Mr. Bryce: Jim Bryce, the CEO of IPC Re Holdings follows the "party" line at the annual September Rendezvous in Monte Carlo. Though the following year's renewals are typically sealed in October in Baden Baden, insurance and reinsurance bigwigs show up just to be sure they don't get left behind.		Dec 1, 2004	1197
Brutal season churns to a close.		Nov 1, 2004	571
Shall we rendezvous? Non merci. (No thanks!).		Oct 15, 2004	587
Speaking of cells ...		Oct 1, 2004	608
Infinite wealth faces a finite future.		Oct 1, 2004	1406
Barreling into primary carriers and reinsurers.		Oct 1, 2004	1171
Capital flows into captive havens: Caribbean jurisdictions do not necessarily see themselves in competition with Bermuda but with the United States and Europe, where captive markets have been growing apace. U.S. jurisdictions now include 21 states and the District of Columbia.		Oct 1, 2004	1916
Aversion to risk breeds linguistic absurdity.		Sep 15, 2004	576
Musings on the runoff racket.		Sep 1, 2004	622
Newhart's captives monologue.		Jul 1, 2004	621