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IFM in A$5.5bn bid for fourth-largest English and Welsh water supplier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has announce that a consortium it is involved with is bidding to takeover AWG in the UK, the fourth-largest water supplier and sewage company in England and Wales. Other consortium partners also include Osprey Acquisitions ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open lower on a negative lead from Wall Street and weaker commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was down 22 points at 5,178. Today, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Hatfield opts out of Packer's new Pengana

Only weeks after a Packer led consortium announced it was taking over Malcolm Turnbull's struggling Pengana Hedge Funds, its former principal, Damien Hatfield, together with its chief executive officer, Russell Pillemer, have sold out of the business. ...

Age and marriage trigger retirement planning: AXA

A new study has found that most Australians only start to get serious about planning for their retirement when they hit 40 or when they get married. Investment and financial planning group AXA partnered up with the Macquarie Graduate School of Management ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
Recent commitments by the state governments of NSW and Victoria to increase spending on infrastructure have been added to by cash rich Western Australia which has announced that as a result of a record 22 per cent increase in annual exports to $47 billion ...

Merrill Lynch appoints BDM for WA

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has appointed a new business development manager for Western Australia. Phil Barker, formerly state manager for AMP Capital Investors, will take on the role of state manager (WA) and be responsible for sales ...

Economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
Prime Minister John Howard has announced a range of measures aimed at easing the impact of the fuel crisis bought about by rising crude oil prices, tensions in the Middle East and the increasing demands by the industrial expansion in China and India. ...

Investors chase REITs for double-whammy returns

A growing number of investors are buying into real estate investment trusts (REITs) not just for yield but also for capital growth, according to Pengana's head of alternative strategies distribution Damien Hatfield. "There's been a subtle change in ...

IFM open for business in London

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has opened an office in London and appointed three staff, including a local infrastructure specialist. Tony Clamp, formerly head of project finance at RWE Thames Water and a former employee of the International Finance ...

AMP caught on conflicts

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP) has been pulled up by the regulator for giving 300 clients unnecessary or inadequate super switching advice and having inadequate conflicts of interest procedures in place. Only months after the regulator's shadow shopping ...