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150 analysts in your pocket

RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Advisers and executives can ask a team of 150 analysts for insights through their Android smart phones after a technology upgrade from telecoms analyst firm Ovum, the technology company said. Ovum's PocketAnalyst tool was previously only available on ...

Bloomberg Tradebook taps into research vein

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Tierney III, chief executive and president, Bloomberg Tradebook. The new IRPs include the firms Capital Markets Research, IPO Financial Network, Roubini Global Economics, Sales Pulse Research, Turning Point Analytics, Two Rivers Analytics and Veritas ...

AFS rebuff takeover offers to go it alone

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... the group was flattered by the attention, discussions have permanently ceased and AFS Group will return to the path of an IPO. "AFS Group is experiencing record profits and has a strong financial position from which to present a serious alternative to ...

PE-Backed IPO exits top $10bn in 2011 YTD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Global private equity IPO exits hit $39 billion last year and is already $10 billion year to date 2011. Preqin, a research firm that specialises in the alternative investments sector, has just released a survey showing that there were 145 IPO exits ...

Of Jobs, Hu and Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
Jobs is leaving the building. Steve Jobs that is. Apple's CEO and the man voted CEO of the Year is taking a medical leave of absence. The news sent shares in the company falling. Because Jobs is Apple and Apple is Jobs. The world would not be with iPods ...

FX broker IPOs on Wall St

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Currency remains one of the hottest topics in financial services and that was reinforced overnight with online foreign exchange broker FXCM raising more than US$200 million through an initial public offering of shares on Wall Street. The company's shares ...

Countplus names new MD, preps for IPO

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
Countplus Limited has appointed a new chief executive ahead of its public float later this month. Countplus, Count Financial Limited's former wholly-owned subsidiary, has appointed Michael Spurr as its chief executive officer. Spurr was formerly Count ...

AIA raises US$20.5bn in IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
AIA's long awaited IPO was a resounding success last week, with US$20.5 billion raised in the share sale to retail and insititutional investors, making it the third largest IPO in history, and the largest ever for the Hong Kong market. Investors scrambled ...

Countplus buys risk dealer group

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... risk-focused dealer group Total Financial Solutions Dealership, which has over $1 billion, as its final acquisition before a planned IPO in December. The non-accounting based dealer group has around 70 advisers. Its head office is located in Sydney and ...

US insurer postpones IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
In a further sign of the fragile state of the US economy, one of the biggest initial public offerings of 2010 was withdrawn overnight. Liberty Mutual Group, the fifth largest property and casualty group in the US by direct written premiums, postponed ...