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Surprise $56 billion bid for London Stock Exchange

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has proposed a $56 billion takeover of the London Stock Exchange. In a statement, HKEX said: "The board believes a proposed combination with LSEG represents a highly compelling strategic opportunity to create a global ...

Northern Trust embroiled in YouTube fundie saga

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... of his fund, in a fresh blow for the fundie. On Friday, Woodford Patient Capital Trust announced to the London Stock Exchange it had come to new terms with Northern Trust on an overdraft facility provided by the bank. The trust has a borrowing facility ...

London Stock Exchange in talks to buy Refinitiv

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
London Stock Exchange has confirmed it is in talks to acquire Refinitiv in a US$27 billion deal. The deal would see the stock exchange buying Thomson Reuters' 45% stake in Refinitiv, a global provider of financial markets data and infrastructure that ...

BetaShares launches FTSE 100 ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... BetaShares has launched a new exchange-traded fund that will track the 100 largest UK companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. It started trading on the ASX this morning with the ticker code F100. The passive ETF will track the market cap weighted ...

New climate risk government bond index launches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... next 30 years according to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change," Bocquet said. London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) director of information services Waqas Samad said integration of economic and financial risk considerations linked ...

Investec scores ADI licence

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... light from APRA to provide banking services in Australia from July 1. Investec Bank plc, which is owned by London Stock Exchange-listed Investec plc, is now operating as a foreign ADI. BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, UBS AG, Credit Suisse AG and Royal ...

Pension fund acquires telco

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... communications solutions and is one of the UK's longest established communications companies. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is focusses on three markets: Hull and East Yorkshire where KCOM provides voice and internet services to 140,000 ...

Top industry fund bets on DNA sequencing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... applied markets in oncology, infectious disease, reproductive health and blood screening. IP Group is a London Stock Exchange listed company that entered Australia last year. It has a $50 million co-investment mandate with Hostplus. The investment is ...

Robo-adviser crashes during Wall Street selloff

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... the first day after the Brexit vote, the FTSE 100 (an index of the 100 largest market cap stocks on the London Stock Exchange) declined 3.15%, but then finished the week up 1.99%. "Similarly, after the Trump victory in November 2016, the futures for ...

TelstraSuper names new technology executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... The investment was made through TelstraSuper's Private Equity Market Portfolio by purchasing a stake in London Stock Exchange-listed IP Group. TelstaSuper announced double digital investment returns for members for the year to 30 June 2017. For their ...