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Perpetual FUM stable despite KKR bid

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Investors have shrugged off uncertainty surrounding Perpetual Investments' future, with the company reporting that its clients have kept their money with the manager despite a takeover approach last month. In a statement to the ASX yesterday, Perpetual ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... higher after the company said five of six of its independent directors, including its chair, would recommend AMP's takeover bid to shareholders. AXA was up nine cents, or 1.6 per cent, at $6.26, and AMP was down five cents, or one per cent, at $5.40. ...

AMP unveils $6.34 per share bid for AXA

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
The worst kept secret in the financial services industry edged closer to reality this morning as AMP announced a fresh bid for AXA Asia-Pacific Holdings. AMP has offered AXA APH minority shareholders at least $6.43 per share in a combination of cash ...

CareSuper and ME take it to the streets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
CareSuper talks to members in a local shopping mall in a bid to generate interest in super and financial advice. CareSuper has stepped up member services with an outreach approach alongside Members Equity (ME) bank, setting up in a ME branch to provide ...

New board at India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... reports this morning. The news comes less than a week after boutique investment firm Bell IXL Investments made a takeover bid for India Equities Fund.

Maritime restructures asset classes, doubles insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... funds (ARFs) and alternatives exposures into one asset class called "Alternatives". The trustee board approved the merger in a bid to consolidate and simplify the reporting and monitoring of these assets. Growth ARFs have been consolidated with growth ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... $44.81. Mr Daghlian said the miner was still being helped by news on Thursday that the Canadian government had given BHP's bid for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan an initial thumbs down. Rio Tinto Ltd was up $2.95, or 3.55 per cent, at $86.15.

AMP back in talks with AXA SA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... APH. The newly resurrected discussion, which AXA APH labeled as "incomplete", follows on from AMP's 2009 failed $10 billion bid for the wealth management firm. If acquired, AMP would use AXA APH to expand its own wealth management branding in Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... highest level since late April, as traders welcomed the potential blocking of BHP Billiton's $40 billion Canadian fertiliser bid. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 22.7 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 4,745.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Bell IXL eyes India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
National Stock Exchange-listed boutique investment firm, Bell IXL Investments, has made a takeover bid for troubled listed investment company India Equities Fund (INE). Massimo Livio Cellante, managing director of Bell IXL, said in a letter to INE shareholders ...