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Australia-UK FTA a boon for local business

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... enter the UK duty free. Another component of the deal involves services relating to the financial, professional services and telco sectors. The UK is Australia's second-largest services trading partner, accounting for 8.8% ($11.7bn) of services trade ...

Still potential for dividends growth: Ausbil

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2022
... economic cycle and who can pass on inflation in their business models," he added. "Some 'all-weather' dividend payers in the telco and health care sectors, and also in consumer staples, are expected to deliver better-than market dividend outcomes." Price ...

Morrison & Co buys stake in Lyntia Networks

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
Morrison & Co has acquired a 33.3% stake in Spanish open access wholesale fibre operator, Lyntia Networks. Lyntia operates a metro and long-haul fibre network in Spain spanning more than 43,000 km, providing B2B connectivity services on a wholesale ...

Global pension fund snaps up telco stake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2022
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board will acquire a 70% interest in Spark New Zealand's mobile towers business 'TowerCo' for $1.18 billion. Under the terms of the acquisition, Spark has entered into a 15-year agreement, including ...

New portfolio manager at Pengana

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
A Pengana Capital global equities fund has appointed a new portfolio manager who previously established and led a boutique. Jeremy Bendeich is a new portfolio manager for Pengana's High Conviction Equities Fund. He works alongside James McDonald, who ...

Uniti ups bid to compete with First State Super

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
Telecommunications company Uniti Group has upped its bid for listed telco OptiComm, as it goes head to head with First State Super to take the company private. It comes as Uniti also secures a 19.5% stake in OptiComm shares though commitments from a ...

First State Super makes first take-private bid

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
First State Super, soon to be Aware Super, has made a bid to acquire 100% of the shares in a listed telco, in what comes as the super fund's first direct bid for an ASX-listed company. The $95 billion industry super fund has made a bid to acquire ...

Wall Street rally runs out of steam

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
Wall Street's rally seems to have run out of steam, with the major indexes ending the day of trade in a sea of red. Early in trade the Dow Jones surged 900-points before closing down 0.12%. Similarly, the S&P 500 lost 0.16% and the Nasdaq Composite ...

Chi-X continues TraCR roll out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... large US companies are available for Australians to gain exposure to, including Google parent company Alphabet, giant US telco AT&T, Nike and Costco. The latest release now brings Chi-X's range of US TraCRs to 30, as Australian investors continue ...

MetLife appoints head of CX

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... efficient and caring. She has 20 years' experience across customer experience and operations in the financial services and telco industries, having previously consulted to players in financial services such as Macquarie and Allianz. She has also ...