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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... 31.50 points, or 1.25 per cent, at 2,552.80. LONDON - Britain's top share index ended flat as plans by Royal Bank of Scotland for a rights issue and poor results from Bank of America led banks lower, offsetting gains in commodity shares. The FTSE 100 ...

MFS breaches $184m loan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
MFS Premium Income Fund is engaging the Bank of Scotland in talks following a multi-million dollar loan facility breach. The fund's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers notes the fund has breached a loan facility of $184 million with third party bank, the ...

Calliva offers SuperAccess to SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... expanding into the residential property sector down the line. Calliva has committed warehouse funding from Royal Bank of Scotland for the loan. The loan is currently non-recourse, ensuring other assets held by the borrower within the super fund are quarantined ...

Valad splurges $138m for debut purchase

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... estate, Valad UK. The $1.1 billion fund targets distressed or mispriced assets on a multi sector basis. HBOS entity Bank of Scotland Corporate has taken up the mantle of the fund's cornerstone equity investor.

Valad ups stake in UK property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... for the company's $1.1 billion Opportunity Fund targeting multi-sector opportunities in the UK. HBOS entity, Bank of Scotland, has since become a cornerstone equity investor of the fund. The fund, which is aiming for an equity internal rate of over 15 ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... the slowest pace since June 2005. Industrial output fell sufficiently in November for economists at the Royal Bank of Scotland to signal that manufacturing has slipped into its first recession in over six years. Unsurprisingly, recent surveys show German ...

Challenger takes part in $9.5bn infrastructure buy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... Challenger, Access Capital Advisers and UBS have acquired UK utility, Southern Water Capital, from the Royal Bank of Scotland Group for $9.5 billion. Challenger has invested $225 million into the Challenger Infrastructure Fund (CIF), which in turn invested ...

European vacation for investor capital

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
... Europe is now challenging their lead. The biggest banking takeover battle in the industry's history, where Royal Bank of Scotland and two other European lenders trumped Barclays' bid for ABN AMRO with an offer 72.2 billion ($118.3 billion), is just one ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
... 2,547.89. LONDON - Britain's top share index ended up 0.5 per cent as banks gained after a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland made a counterbid for ABN AMRO and Sainsbury jumped on bid talk. The FTSE 100 closed 32.4 points higher at 6,461.9. FRANKFURT ...

Barclays to buy ABN AMRO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
... manager, with 47 million customers. However, reports emerged yesterday of a possible rival bid from the Royal Bank of Scotland, which could start a bidding war for ABN AMRO. The deal will see ABN AMRO shareholders receive 3.225 Barclays shares per ABN ...