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Merger of Energy Risk Associates and PWIB Texas Creates Towerstone

IMA Financial Group Inc. announced the recent formation of Towerstone Inc., a wholesale insurance broker and managing general agency with extensive experience in a broad spectrum of industries, with expertise in energy and construction. Towerstone is the result of the …

Kaufman/Burns & Wilcox Expands in London; Joins with C.J. Coleman

Alan Jay Kaufman is bucking the business tide in Michigan. While many companies are retrenching their business, Kaufman is going global. Kaufman, chairman, president and CEO of the national specialty insurance wholesaler H.W. Kaufman Financial Group/Burns & Wilcox, has formed …

Leaders at IMF Call for Urgent Financial Reforms

Centre-left leaders from around the world called on Saturday for urgent reform of global financial institutions to prevent a recurrence of the credit crisis. About a dozen leaders, brought together by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, issued a communique urging …

IMF Gives Leaders Gloomy Assessment of World Economy

The head of the International Monetary Fund gave a gloomy report on Saturday on prospects for the world economy to a dozen leaders debating how to respond to global financial turmoil. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a high-powered forum …

Subprime Crisis Reveals Larger Problems in Government Regulation

America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy. We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the Federal Reserve Bank, …

Subprime Crisis Reveals Larger Problems in Government Regulation

America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy. We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the Federal Reserve Bank, …

Subprime Crisis Reveals Larger Problems in Government Regulation

America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy. We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the Federal Reserve Bank, …

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Subprime Crisis Reveals Larger Problems in Government Regulation

America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy. We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the Federal Reserve Bank, …

Lloyd’s Leaders Comment on Results

Title According to an article on the Lloyd’s web site (www.lloyds.com), leading figures in the Lloyd’s market have welcomed the record results for 2007 and acknowledge the strength of the market to face the softening cycle (See IJ web site …