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Heads roll at Nomura

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
The chief executive officer and chief operating officer of ailing Japanese investment bank Nomura will step down to take responsibility for an insider trading scandal. Kenichi Watanabe, Nomura's chief executive, and Takumi Shibata, its chief operating ...

Redundancies tipped at Plan B

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
Job cuts are predicted at Perth-based boutique wealth manager Plan B, if IOOF's proposed bid is successful. The Plan B board has unanimously recommended that shareholders accept the IOOF offer for 60 cents per ordinary share, in an off-market takeover ...

Provisio SOA tool can test 'reasonable basis'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
Provisio Technologies has released a comparison tool that it said can compare super funds and prepare statements of advice which are compliant with the 'reasonable basis' clause. The comparison tool lets advisors evaluate super switching options for ...

"Bad apples" slipping through the cracks: ASIC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
The corporate regulator has put licensees on notice, saying there is growing concern that "bad apples" in the industry are slipping through the cracks because of poor reference checking when advisers swap between groups. At the Association of Financial ...

AMP Capital, Macquarie sells infra to Asia's richest man

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
A consortium lead by Asia's richest man has purchased a British gas distribution company from investors including Macquarie Global Infrastructure Funds 2 SARL and AMP Capital. The deal to purchase Wales & West Utilities Limited - subject to European ...

TO Panel silences Mariner

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
The Takeovers Panel has slapped an interim order on Mariner Corporation after comments made by its chief executive officer to the media. Mariner Corporation had applied to the takeovers panel to stop the sale of Austock's property business, which it ...

AGEST bungle isolated: BNP Paribas

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
French investment bank BNP Paribas has said that the miscalculation of AGEST Super returns reported yesterday was an isolated incident. AGEST Super recently wrote to affected members advising them that they have either been under or over paid - after ...

AGEST bungles returns

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
AGEST Super has written to some members advising them that they have either been under or over paid - after custodian BNP Paribas miscalculated returns. The mistake will cause approximately 5000 balances being revised down and 18,000 revised up. "We ...

Mariner calls it quits on Austock offer

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
Mariner Corporation has withdrawn its takeover offer for Austock after a "blatant attempt" to block its bid. In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) yesterday Mariner Corporation said that the sale of the Austock property management business ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
Environmental, social and governance research has a role to play as Europe's sovereign debt crisis blurs the lines between the definitions of developed and developing nations, according to a global responsible investment expert. A lot of the countries ...