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Mariner lodges TO panel complaint

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
Mariner Corporation has gone to the Takeovers Panel to try and stop the sale of Austock's property business. Austock last week announced plans for an $11 million sale of Austock Property Funds Management and its related entities to Folkestone Limited ...

Plan B board accepts IOOF offer

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
The board of Perth-based Plan B Holdings Limited has recommended a $49.1 million takeover offer made by IOOF. IOOF had proposed to acquire 100% of the fully paid ordinary shares in Plan B, in an off-market takeover that would see it add $2.2bn in funds ...

APRA warns trustees about data integrity

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has written to superannuation fund trustees to outline its expectations on data integrity requirements, warning that while there has been some improvement, funds still have a good way to go before the industry ...

Investors ignoring credit

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
Retail investors are ignoring the middle ground between equity and fixed interest, "bar-belling" portfolio asset allocation between the two extremes, according to a paper released by boutique global credit manager, Bentham Asset Management. "I am quite ...

New corporate super boss at AMP

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
AMP Financial Services has appointed Libby Roy as its new head of Corporate Superannuation. Roy will report to AMP Financial Services managing director Craig Meller and be responsible for driving AMP's corporate super strategy. "Libby brings extensive ...

PE firm makes ClearView bid

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
An Australian private equity manager has made an off-market takeover bid for all shares in ClearView Wealth Limited. In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange this morning (ASX), Crescent Capital Partners (CCP) Management said it would make an ...

Perpetual sells mortgage business

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
Perpetual has reached an agreement to sell its mortgage processing business to FAF International Property Services Australia, an affiliate of First Mortgage Services. Plans to sell Perpetual Lenders Mortgage Services (PLMS) were announced as part of ...

Treasury Group makes more Asian moves

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Treasury Group has acquired a 20% equity stake in Singapore based multi-strategy Asian equities manager, Octis Asset Management. Treasury Group (TRG) said that it had also acquired an option to increase its stake by 10% if requirements linked to new ...

Media Super funds film

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Media Super has announced the release of the latest film that has been jointly funded from a film finance facility that it participates in. "The film titled 'not suitable for children' is one of a series of local film & TV productions that Media Super ...

Pipeline Partners makes HFM bid

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Pipeline Partners Australia has made a binding $1.23bn takeover offer for the Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund. "The Hastings Funds Management Ltd (HFML) subcommittee of independent directors is currently considering the terms of the proposal and ...