Lloyd's offered the investors, known as "names," a $4.8 billion package that would cut their losses in return for their agreement to end all litigation.

The individual investors, known as names, also defeated four other resolutions that sought more financial help and greater access to data about the operations of Lloyd's.

Among them are 10,000 to 20,000 professional investors, known as the dahu, who have $100,000 or more in their brokerage accounts.

How did an investor known for his astute bets - among them another German military contractor, Rhinemetall - get so burned?

In the meantime, Google's management has begun holding a series of meetings with investors, traditionally known as the road show.

But the totals for new-media investment show that a group of investors known to be generally cautious has increasing interest in the city's Internet related businesses.

In return, the investors, known as names, would have to drop lawsuits contending that Lloyd's misled them about the risks and mismanaged the business.

The Belzbergs are active investors, well known for their takeover attempts.

Such investors, known as vulture investors, once anticipated making a fortune off an acquisition of Barney's.

The investors, known as Names, had pledged their entire net worth to back policies sold by Lloyd's.