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Bravura begins UK growth push

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2006
... Nucleus is a financial services partnership between seven UK Independent Financial Adviser firms (IFAs) as well as South African life insurance company Sanlam and it currently has approximately $7.5 billion under management. The new platform allows Nucleus ...

TOWER to tower after PrefSure merger

... to its combined insurance suite. TOWER bought PrefSure Holdings early this year for $145 million from the group's South African parent Liberty. The deal finally received the seal of approval from the regulators late last month, making TOWER one of the ...

PrefSure deal sees Tower focus on master trusts

TOWER have bought out PrefSure Holdings and Life Limited (PrefSure) from South African group, Liberty, for $145 million as they push their strategic growth towards life insurance for master trusts. TOWER managing director, Jim Minto, said that the key ...

Funds leave the US, bound for Japan

... emerging markets, the EPFR research showed that respective records for inflows were set in the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) equity funds as well as for Latin American equity funds. Latin American equity funds saw $4.1 billion of new funds ...

CSS fraudsters appear in court

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2005
... authorising the transfer was forged. Prosecutors opposed bail for four men charged over alleged conspiracy. They are South African-born Richard Kurland, a 58 year-old insurance investigator from Leura in NSW and Sydney men Leonid Kuris, 50, of Bondi ...

African Development Bank mulls five year inaugural $A bond

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2004
African Development Bank (AfDB), the development bank for the African continent, today said it was mulling an inaugural Australian dollar Kangaroo bond with a likely five-year maturity and a minimum size of $200 million. The bank, which is in Australia ...

Macquarie raises $125 million in South African infrastructure

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2004
Macquarie Bank Ltd's African investment joint venture has raised $125 million in its second private infrastructure fund, with plans afoot to raise more in coming months. The new African Infrastructure Investment Fund (AIIF) has raised 675 million rand ...

Macquarie Financial sells South African joint venture holding

Macquarie Financial Services Group today announced it has sold its 33.33 per cent shareholding in its South African joint venture, Innofin, to its joint venture partner, Sanlam. Macquarie's interest in Innofin was sold for R 90 million ($A18.7 million) ...

Macquarie Bank says H2 significantly up on prior H2

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2003
... 8.0 per cent to $143 million. Other income of $103 million included a gain on disposal of the bank's interest in East African Gold Mines and part of its interest in Sydney Futures Exchange. Since balance date Macquarie bank acquired two seed assets for ...

Sudden OPEC move unlikely to impact Australia negatively: ICAP

... reduction in oil supplies was triggered-off by expected rises in oil supplies by non-OPEC countries like Norway, Russia and African suppliers.