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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... soared $1.55, or 44.5 per cent, to $5.03 after receiving a cash and scrip $3.85 billion takeover bid from energy giants Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina. Oil stocks made substantial gains, with Oil Search jumping 27 cents, or 5.15 per cent, to $5.51 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... Wednesday on expectations that interest rates will remain low and encouraging earnings results from companies including Dutch financial giant ING. Further solid earnings reports from companies including French bank Credit Agricole SA, encouraging economic ...

No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... Central Europe, Latin America and Asia. What caused the grief was ING's huge exposure to US sub-prime mortgages which the Dutch government decided to indemnify rather than force into a siphoned-off so-called government sponsored 'bad bank'. Hommen said ...

ING to divest insurance and investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
Dutch banking and insurance giant ING plans to dispose its insurance and investment businesses over the next four years to shore up its balance sheet and repay its government debt. In a company statement released overnight, the group revealed a massive ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... giving energy, material and industrial stocks a lift. Stocks also got a boost from a better-than-expected profit report from Dutch company Royal Philips Electronics, which sent Britain's leading stock indicator to its highest level in a year. Trading ...

Amnesty highlights Shell governance shortfall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group is under fire from a human rights group for not disclosing key information around its operations in the Niger Delta - potentially exposing fund managers to unknown corporate governance issues. The Amnesty International letter ...

NY fund blacklists Gazprom and Petrobras

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... monitoring and prohibiting any other investments in seven other companies that operate in both countries including Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Total SA, Alstom and Snam Rete Gas. Melany Grout, director of Conflict Risk Network, said companies are taking notice ...

TAAM strategy scores mandate boost

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... among the clients, ranging from increased exposures to Asian equities to the winning of funds from axed managers. "We have a Dutch pension client [for example], whose overall position in equities in 2008 was relatively low. So in early 2009 when the ...

Infrastructure wins pension funds votes

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... billion of its fund's total $594 billion. Other big pension investors in Continental Europe include the Danish ATP and PKA, Dutch PGGM, Finnish VER. The majority of pension fund investments are through infrastructure funds. However, some bigger Canadian ...

Jobs safe in Australia: ING

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... investment business," noted the statement. However, a company spokesperson from ING Australia said that the local arm of the Dutch banking and insurance giant - including its investment management business - would be spared the job cuts. "We don't anticipate ...