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AMP now chasing respect from ratings organisations

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2004
The new look AMP will be far more disciplined in its approach towards acquisitions with surplus cash being used to pay down debt over the course of the next 12 to 18 months. AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl said the company wanted to improve its standing ...

New head appointed for AMP Captial Investors

AMP has announced the appointment of Stephen Dunne as managing director of AMP Capital Investors. Dunne is currently client and marketing director, Asia Pacific, at AMP Capital and will take up his new role on April 5. His appointment follows the retirement ...

AMP books $5.5 billion loss for 2003 after writedowns

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
AMP today booked Australia's second biggest corporate loss, with writedowns and costs from spinning off its British operations leaving the group $5.542 billion in the red in 2003. The loss for AMP, which demerged its struggling United Kingdom business ...

Analysts rush to upgrade AMP forecasts after guidance rise

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
AMP's $100 million upgrade to its earnings guidance caught the share market on the hop yesterday, leading to a flock of estimate revisions by investment analysts. Citigroup Smith Barney raised its forecast for AMP's core earnings by $93 million to $614 ...

AMP sees 2003 net profit in $600 to $620 million range

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2004
Financial services and insurance group AMP said today it was expecting its 2003 underlying business results to be considerably higher than that forecast in its explanatory memorandum for its demerger. Net profit after tax, before goodwill amortisation ...

Global recovery will encourage growth in share markets

... major regions is the first synchronised global recovery since 1994, according to Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy at AMP Capital Investors. This meant the upturn would likely become self-sustaining and underpin continued growth in share markets ...

Admerex appoints ex-Ampol boss as chair

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
Finance industry technology group Admerex has appointed former Ampol Petroleum group general manager Ronald Cotton as chairman and director. Cotton, also formerly managing director of operations at publisher John Fairfax Holdings and a director of Seven ...

AMP incurs $3.6 billion writedown on HHG demerger

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
Financial services group AMP Ltd incurred a $3.6 billion writedown on its HHG demerger, it said last week. AMP said in its explanatory memorandum for the demerger of its UK businesses late last year, it valued HHG at $3.2 billion which would result ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
... Friday. On Friday, the market closed stronger, pushed along by solid performances from big resources stocks, News Corp and AMP. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was down eight points to 3322 by 0659 AEDT on a volume ...

AMP shares surge on speculation of takeover interest

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2004
Shares in financial services giant AMP Ltd and HHG plc surged this morning as some investors believed the stocks were undervalued and on the back of speculation of more takeover interest in AMP. Both were heavily traded with more than 4.26 million AMP ...