Ready to go platinum
St Paul is pressing ahead with the spin-off of its reinsurance arm into a new Bermudian company, despite the scepticism of analysts. Mairi Mallon reports.
At the Bermuda Angle analysts' conference last month, some analystswere joking about a company they have nicknamed 'Lead Re' - saying it was
too heavy to get off the ground. The company is known to
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