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New Westpac director to start in Feb

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... February this year. Crouch has headed Allens' board since 2009, and is recognised as one of Australia's best mergers and acquisitions lawyers, Westpac said in a media release. "Ewen is a leading figure in the legal profession and we are fortunate to ...

PE deals down: Mergermarket

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... down 22.8% year to date, according to a report by research group Mergermarket. 12.7% of total global mergers and acquisitions in the third quarter this year were attributable to private equity buyouts, standing at US$ 58.6 billion, the lowest value for ...

Hyperion builds investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... capabilities. He joins Hyperion from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he spent five years, most recently in the mergers and acquisitions team. According to Hyperion chief investment officer, Mark Arnold, Hartnell's track record in financial and strategic ...

FINSIA appoints new president

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... Birch is an executive director of Macquarie Capital Advisers in Sydney with over 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, specialising in the financial services sector. "We have seen Finsia develop through substantial changes in the last few ...

ASIC appoints new commissioner

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... Commission (ASIC) for the past 12 years, holding a number of senior positions. He was involved in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, financial services, accounting and audit and policy development at the commission during this time. Price is also ...

MLC shakes up portfolio allocations

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... will probably remain constant for a few years but we see the variability changing before that such as mergers and acquisitions or new indexes," said Sumner. "Once we detect more variety that will be when we will reallocate." In terms of longevity however ...

Superannuation needs more regulatory resilience: ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... invested increases," said Medcraft. "Growth in equities affects ASIC's market placing teams that oversee mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, brokers and markets themselves. Growth in fixed income, property and cash and managed investment schemes ...

ESSSuper names new chief executive officer

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... more than 20 years' experience in financial markets and has held senior roles in finance, strategy and mergers and acquisitions across the superannuation and the funds management Industries. "Mark brings to the CEO position proven skills and abilities ...

HFT and dark pools keep ASIC on its toes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... of the national exchanges, so it's not surprising that their reaction has been to try and grow though mergers and acquisitions. Yet three high-profile mergers including Deutsche Boerse/NYSE Euronext have been blocked by regulators on competition grounds ...

FOFA heats up competition for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... paper, CoreData said that systemic pressure to attain scale rapidly was already evident after a number of mergers and acquisitions already in the planning space. Mark Taylor of Stature Financial Planning, a practice which is licensed through Hillross ...