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Super-sized super powers up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... investments in-house and is now starting to invest in assets directly (OTPP was behind the Transurban infrastructure takeover bid, which was rejected). "It seems to me that the Canadian model is an interesting one because these funds have sufficient ...

Platforms up 30pc to $391bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... First State with 14 per cent and AMP with 11 per cent. All the rest are in single digits. Should NAB be successful in its bid for AXA, MLC will rocket into first place a full six percentage points ahead of current leader BT. The fastest growing platforms ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
Resources stocks propped up the Australian share market in quiet intra-day trading, with the strong bid for Centennial Coal Ltd signalling the minerals resource rent tax will attract foreign capital into Australia. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Bookmakers fund adopts liquidity strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... removing switching restrictions to its conservative strategies, and dividing its balanced pension and accumulation options in a bid to reopen the fund which faced illiquidity problems during the GFC. The Bookmakers Superannuation Fund was deeply impacted ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... after the Federal Open Market Committee left the federal funds rate range at record lows between zero and 0.25 per cent in a bid to support recovery from recession, and issued a more cautious statement about the economic recovery struggling to gain traction. ...

NZ Commission gives AMP all clear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... constrain the merged AMP and AXA," said the statement. Last week, the Commerce Commission delayed a final decision on AMP's bid for AXA Asia Pacific by two weeks. In April, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) blocked NAB's bid ...

AMP appoints Brenner to board

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... addition to her role on the Takeovers Panel. The Takeovers Panel is a peer review body that resolves disputes about a takeover bid until the bid period has finished. In addition to her non-executive roles, Brenner also worked as a corporate solicitor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... believed to be the case anyway so the impact was limited to some extent. At the same time, an $US11.5 billion ($A13.4 billion) bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for the outstanding 61 per cent it does not own in British pay-TV operator BSkyB boosted ...

NZ regulator extends AMP and AXA deadline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has delayed a final decision on AMP's bid for AXA Asia Pacific by two weeks to June 25. A Commerce Commission spokesperson said the regulator had agreed with AMP and AXA Asia Pacific on the extended deadline. The regulator's ...

NAB addresses ACCC concerns

ASX STATEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... acquisition of the Australian and New Zealand business of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). Back in April, ACCC blocked the NAB bid because it was concerned about competition between retail investment platforms if NAB and AXA merged. "At the heart ...