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SAP buys Sybase

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
Sybase directors have backed a deal for SAP to buy the technology firm for a cash offer worth more than $7 billion in common stock. SAP's subsidiary, SAP America, has signed an agreement to buy Sybase, which means both companies clients' will be better ...

Mercer appoints CIO in UK

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
Mercer has appointed investment veteran Bill Muysken to the new role of chief investment officer for alternative alpha strategies, based in the UK. Muysken rejoins Mercer after spending the last three years in the hedge fund industry. He spent the early ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
How do you solve a problem like Athena? The bears are slowly coming back from the woodworks as the vigilantes of the bond market train their crosshairs from Greece to other Eurozone countries. And we're all getting caught in the crossfire. Is that doom ...

Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
Hong Kong's regulator moves to ban New York-based Tiger Asia Management from dealing shares in the country ever again after it caught the fund's directors guilty of insider trading - twice. Last August, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) applied ...

Rules, rules, rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
Do you know what Moses did when God handed him the Ten Commandments? He squatted beside the burning bush, placed both hands on his face and cried, "Rules, rules, rules... too many rules!" But unlike Moses, America's biggest banks are not squatting and ...

Co-contribs bungle is costing taxpayers: Hartsuyker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
The Australian Tax Office's superannuation co-contribution suspension could cost taxpayers at least $1 million, according to shadow minister, Luke Hartsuyker. Hartsuyker, shadow minister for consumer affairs, financial services, superannuation and corporate ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
A US retirement assembly has backed a bill treating placement agents as "lobbyists", in a bid to help protect the integrity of the nation's two largest public pension funds. Assembly member Ed Hernandez, who helped author the bill, said the vote meant ...

Epoch focus on free cash flow pays dividends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
New York Life Investments liked Epoch Investment Partners' free cash flow strategies so much they bypassed the norm of buying equity in the company or hiring them as a fund manager among many - opting instead to tie up a strategic partnership deal that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Australian stocks were almost one per cent higher at noon led by the major miners as investors await the central bank's cash rate decision. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 40.6 points, or 0.83 per cent, at 4,948.3, while the broader ...

Super funds gain merger loss relief

GOVERNMENT RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
The government is changing legislation that will provide loss relief for superannuation funds that merge. The amendments are designed to remove tax impediments to mergers between super funds. The changes mean eligible super funds can roll over capital ...