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Clydesdale in talks to acquire RBS subsidiary

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
CYBG, the holding company formed following the NAB demerger, is in talks to acquire a business from the Royal Bank of Scotland. The Williams & Glyn business refers to parts of RBS and National Westminster Bank, comprising 307 branches, which must be ...

Keybridge executive director resigns, chair appointed

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
Keybridge Capital has appointed a new chair and non-executive director while director Antony Sormann has departed. Jeremy Kriewaldt is currently a partner at Atanaskovic Hartnell, specialising in corporate and commercial law. He was previously a partner ...

BKI makes $4.2m acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
BKI Investment Company is acquiring an unlisted investment company for $4.2 million. In an ASX statement, BKI's board said the acquisition will "benefit existing BKI shareholders by increasing the size of BKI's portfolio in a cost-effective manner." ...

AMP Capital responds to ChinaAMC unitholder offer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
Unitholders in the AMP Capital China Growth Fund (AGF), which is in the final stages of a wind-up, may receive an offer from China Asset Management (ChinaAMC). AMP Capital, AGF's responsible entity, said it was aware ChinaAMC intended to offer unitholders ...

BKI appoints external investment manager

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
BKI Investment Company has externalised the management of its investment portfolio. From November 1, portfolio management and advisory will be outsourced to Contact Asset Management, a new company created BKI chief executive Tom Millner and portfolio ...

ASIC investigating ASX outage

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed that ASIC is investigating September 19's significant disruption to ASX trading. The ASX has blamed the outage, which was the longest in five years, on a "hardware failure" though no other details were ...

US funds launch lawsuit against big four banks

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
A class action lawsuit has been launched against NAB, CBA, ANZ and Westpac, as well as Macquarie and other investment banks for their alleged rigging of the bank bill swap reference rate (BBSW). The Sonterra Capital Master Fund, Frontpoint Financial ...

ASX senior manager goes to Citi for wealth head role

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
Citi has appointed a new head of banking wealth management product. Marcus Christoe joins Citi from the ASX, where he was senior manager, funds and investment products. Prior to that, he was head of equity structured products at RBS and head of equities ...

Link considers Pillar bid

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
Large superannuation administrator Link Group is interested in the New South Wales government's sale of Pillar Administration, and it will now consider whether to participate in the bid process. Link told the ASX that if it decides to progress with ...

Challenger sees record sales boost in 2016

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
Challenger has boosted its annuity sales by 22% to $3.4 billion in 2016. The group attributed this increase to the moves in the super industry to include Challenger annuities on investment platforms. Chief executive Brian Benari said this allowed Challenger ...