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Challenger looks to sell down foreign property portfolio

... Kerry Packer-backed Challenger Financial Services Group is considering the sale of some of its properties in the United Kingdom and Texas. Among the assets on the block are two London properties - Senator House and Minister Court - and two properties ...

Lion Nathan sells portfolio of hotels, takes writedown on value

... hospitality industry experience having established the highly successful Walkabout chain of licensed venues in the United Kingdom. He was, until recently, a Board Director and Operations Director of Regent Inns plc which operates the Walkabout, Stonehouse ...

NAB chief executive rules out UK and Irish sell-off

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2004
... chief executive John Stewart has reportedly scuttled renewed speculation the group was thinking of selling its United Kingdom and Irish operations. In an interview with a UK-based newspaper, Stewart said he had no plans to sell-off NAB's three UK banks ...

Nine top AMP executives pocket combined $18 million pay in 2003

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2004
... for his efforts in steering the company through the painful demerger with HHG, the company's operations in the United Kingdom. The base salary for Mr Mohl, appointed in September 2002, was $1.497 million was topped up by $1.95 million in performance ...

NAB head of foreign exchange resigns

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2004
... a colleague from his former days at Barclays Bank to take up a senior management role. The bank said today that United Kingdom-based Lynne Peacock, a former senior executive at Barclays and a director at retail bank Woolwich, will join NAB\'s Group Executive ...

AMP now chasing respect from ratings organisations

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2004
... corporate history of $5.542 billion, representing the writedowns and costs of its ill-fated expansion into the United Kingdom via the now demerged HHG plc. With the company forced into a defensive position in recent times, some market watchers had speculated ...

AMP books $5.5 billion loss for 2003 after writedowns

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
... operations leaving the group $5.542 billion in the red in 2003. The loss for AMP, which demerged its struggling United Kingdom business HHG plc in December last year, compared to a $896 million loss in 2002. The insurance and financial services company's ...

Australia second cheapest place to do business

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2004
... of 11 industrialised countries. Australia's cost-competitiveness was second only to Canada, with Europe and the United Kingdom tied for third. KPMG's 2004 Competitive Alternatives study measured 27 cost components such as labour, taxes and utilities ...

OECD leading indicator data reveals moderate to strong recovery ahead

... unchanged and its six-month rate of change was down following increases for the previous six months. The CLI for the United Kingdom rose by 0.1 points in October and its six-month rate of change improved for the seventh consecutive month after showing ...

NAB boss says UK operations in good shape

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2003
National Australia Bank Ltd chief executive Frank Cicutto has defended the bank's United Kingdom operations, saying they are still well positioned for growth. Mr Cicutto said there had been "a lot of noise and debate about our UK operations". However ...