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Planning firms on buying spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... of risk have come out much better than those who say, do a lot of direct equities," he said. However mergers and acquisitions have not been prevalent in just the SME arena. Bigger firms such as Count Financial and Ipac Securities have also been hot on ...

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... equity transactions in the US. Before his time at Macquarie, Mancini worked as a senior associate in mergers and acquisitions at Shearman and Sterling and, prior to that, as an associate in the corporate and banking division in Allen Arthur Robinson. ...

Netwealth hires legal and reg consultant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... regulatory expertise. Lewis was previously a partner at Mallesons in Melbourne where he worked across mergers and acquisitions, property, construction and the environment. At netwealth, he will be responsible for developing relationships with the firm's ...

CMC continues broking push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Stockbrokers (AWS). Since then, the industry continues to shrink in number of players, either through mergers and acquisitions, margin pressures and more recently, imminent capital adequacy rules that will effectively marginalise many small-size broking ...

Investors to regain capital from axed fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... long short real estate securities fund. "We believe that on the back of an equities rebound in Asia and mergers and acquisitions activity, it makes sense to have a focus on Asian property stocks," he said.

IBM Cognos measures credit risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... credit card business and from their traditional banking arm. They may have also inherited data following mergers and acquisitions. Trigwell said that to effectively monitor these multiple data sources, IBM has developed a credit risk software that allows ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... the seemingly unending changes in the company's name back in the 1990s as it embarked on a number of mergers and acquisitions. This time, it may have bit more than it could chew. Citigroup is representative of what has been happening in the banking/financial/investment/brokerage/insurance ...

Macq reduces headcount

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... Capital were made redundant. The division is the group's corporate advisory services arm, dealing with mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and project finance. "Macquarie businesses respond to market circumstances on a business by business, region ...

More pain for insurance firms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... will reduce capacity and increase the cost for insurance," he said. Mahoney also flagged the trend of mergers and acquisitions that will continue to pick up in the coming months. This will be motivated primarily by client demand, as global firms pick ...

Trust appoints managing director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... remains managing director until Atkin takes over next year. Atkin has more than 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions after working at Blake Dawson for six years and Mallesons Stephen Jaques as an executive partner. He is also a member of the ...