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Seeking alpha in EM small caps

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... to mid cap area," explained Kerry Series, chief investment office of Eight Investment Partners, which invests in Asia-pacific equities. "The Asian consumption story is well known, so many of the larger companies trade on high valuations," said Series ...

NAB exits AXA AP bidding war

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
National Australia Bank has dropped its bid to buy AXA Asia Pacific, paving the way for other parties to acquire AXA AP's Australian and New Zealand assets. According to an Australian Securities Exchange statement released late yesterday, NAB terminated ...

Singapore: the cloud computing hub

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Not content with dominating financial services, Singapore is emerging as the cloud-computing hub for the Asia Pacific region, according to new research. Cloud computing enables a financial services company to access its IT applications through the web ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... president marketing Randy Tinseth is to present latest Current Market Outlook for 2010 for Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific markets in Sydney. Also, Hotels.com is to launch its Hotel Price Index in Sydney. On Friday, the local market closed ...

Aviva appoints senior roles in Asia Pacific

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Aviva plans to develop and launch a number of new products to further expand its global real estate in the Asia Pacific with the three appointments fundamental to this action. "These products will be designed with the needs of the local Asia Pacific ...

ACCC opposes NAB/AXA merger

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
The competition regulator has again opposed National Australia Bank's proposal to buy AXA Asia Pacific after reviewing the bank's revised bid, raising the chances of AXA AP's other suitor, AMP. Peter Kell, deputy chairman of the ACCC, said the proposed ...

DTCIM selects Imagine software

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... addition of DTCIM to our client base is yet another indication of the continuing growth and sophistication of the Asia-Pacific market," said Yvonne Dahl, global director of sales and marketing at Imagine. Imagine was recently voted by financial technology ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... competition regulator ACCC said it continued to object to the proposed tie-up between National Australia Bank and AXA Asia Pacific. AXA shares tumbled on the announcement and at 1204 AEST were down 49 cents, or 9.01 per dent, at $4.95. The company was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... Commission (ACCC) is set set to make its final decision on Thursday over whether National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) and AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA) have done enough to satisfy it to allow their $13.3 billion merger to go ahead. In Australia on Wednesday ...

Kittel to head BankSA

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... Kittel will take over from present managing director Chapman from October 1. Kittel has been general manager of Westpac's Pacific Banking operations for over four years where she was responsible for a team of 1,200 staff across seven different countries ...