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AMP debt down by 2005: CEO

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2003
... weekend. AMP will have to inject another $84 million into its British operations as part of the demerger process given "in principle" approval by the Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority (APRA) and Britain's Financial Services Authority on ...

AMP details $1.2 billion rights issue as part of demerger

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2003
... UK operations which will include Henderson Global Investors and UK Life Services. Chief executive Andrew Mohl said in principle regulatory approval had been received from both the UK based Financial Services Authority and the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

Some CLERP rules "excessively prescriptive"

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Some rules contained in the CLERP 9 legislative package were "excessively prescriptive", PricewaterhouseCoopers chief executive Tony Harrington warned today. The federal government's proposed changes to corporate laws were announced yesterday. "In general ...

ASIC releases new policy on takeover relief

ASIC today released an expanded policy on takeover relief designed to give bidders, targets and holders certainty in complying with the Corporations Act while maintaining the principles behind takeover regulation. Policy Statement 159 titled Takeovers ...

ASIC issues draft SRI guidelines

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has today released draft guidelines for the inclusion of information relating to labour standards and environmental, social and ethical factors in the product disclosure statements (PDSs) of ...

Government set to reveal future of Telstra

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2003
... Federal Government will make an announcement on the future of Telstra tomorrow. "The party room has given approval in principle to a direction about which there will an announcement tomorrow," a party spokesman said. Tonight the Prime Minister John Howard ...

Treasury Group appoints Peter Kennedy to its board

Peter Kennedy, a senior partner of Madwicks Lawyers, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Treasury Group to increase its number of independent directors in accordance with the ASX corporate governance principles. As a non-executive director ...

Westpac signs up to social and environmental principles

Westpac Banking Corporation has joined nine leading banks from seven countries by adopting the "Equator Principles" - a voluntary set of guidelines that have been developed for managing social and environmental issues relating to the financing of development ...

Midday market wrap: Westpac sell-off defies stronger sentiment

Westpac shares defied the broadly positive sentiment during the morning session, falling by $0.35 to $16.42. Earlier Westpac had announced that it had signed up to the so-called 'Equator Principles,' a set of guidelines for managing social and environmental ...

Tower shareholders "duped and deceived": Shareholders Association

Shareholders in troubled financial services company Tower have been misled for years about the company's true worth, NZ Shareholders' Association chairman Bruce Sheppard said today. "The issue for shareholders is that for many years they have been duped ...