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The Trust Co recommends Perpetual merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
The Trust Company board has recommended unanimously that its shareholders support the Perpetual proposal to acquire 100% of its shares. The Perpetual proposal would result in shareholders receiving 0.1495 Perpetual shares for each share held in The ...

EQT mulls position after Perpetual move on Trust Co

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... EQT managing director Robin Burns told Financial Standard that it was currently considering its position. In light of the bid by Perpetual, Burns said EQT will now have to come up with an improved offer, or concede to Perpetual. "We have been alerted ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... cents to $32.625. Among other stocks, Agribusiness GrainCorp was in a trading halt after it agreed to a $3.02 billion takeover bid by suitor Archer Daniels Midland Company. GrainCorp last traded at $11.87. Sleep disorder equipment supplier ResMed was ...

Austock Group company secretary resigns

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
Austock Group company secretary Amanda Gawne has resigned, to be replaced by the company's chief financial officer Enzo Silverii. It is understood that Silverii has already taken the reigns and according to an ASX announcement yesterday, he will be ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
"BREAKING NEWS: President@BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP." Were it not for this Twitter post - later discovered to be caused by Associated Press' twitter feed being hacked ...

CommSec appoints head of adviser services

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... trading, margin lending, cash, debt optimisation, portfolio administration and investment advice products into one site, in a bid to make things easier for customers.

CFS first retail fund to win MySuper approval

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... investment markets as members near retirement." The Government introduced MySuper as part of its Stronger Super package in a bid to provide superannuation members with a new low cost and simple superannuation product that replaces existing default fu ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... and finance. Reuters reports that the Spanish government's latest auction of 3-, 5- and 10-year bonds last night was well-bid and sold for at much lower yields. In fact, the 10-year bonds sold for 4.61% -- the lowest yield in 3 years - down from 4.90% ...

IFM consortium wins Port Botany lease

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
A consortium led by Industry Funds Management (IFM) has won a bid for the long-term leases of Port Botany and Port Kembla. The consortium known as NSW Ports includes some of Australia's biggest industry superannuation funds - AustralianSuper, Cbus ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... a bit flat." The BoJ said after the Australian market closed on Thursday it would expand its bond purchasing program in a bid to lift inflation in Japan to two per cent within two years, from an environment of persistent deflation currently. Meanwhile ...