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IFM in A$5.5bn bid for fourth-largest English and Welsh water supplier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has announce that a consortium it is involved with is bidding to takeover AWG in the UK, the fourth-largest water supplier and sewage company in England and Wales. Other consortium partners also include Osprey Acquisitions ...

Combet joins ME board

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
ACTU secretary and director of AustralianSuper, Greg Combet, has joined the board of Members Equity Bank as a director. Members Equity Bank chief executive officer Anthony Wamsteker said, "Greg is an outstanding leader who has effectively represented ...

Future Fund climbs to $32 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
The government will transfer $14 billion to the Future Fund during 2006-07, and on top of the $18 billion parked there in May the Future Fund has already reached $32 billion in committed money. This is the second significant contribution by the government ...

HOST-PLUS storms into NRL grand final

HAMISH MADDEN, ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
In just its first year of partnering with the Melbourne Storm National Rugby League (NRL) team, industry fund HOST-PLUS will run out onto the field on Sunday night in front of an audience expected to number in the millions. David Elia, chief executive ...

Super assets surge to $914 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
The value of superannuation assets has jumped to $913.9 billion on the back of stellar equity investment returns and strong inflows, up 19.8 per cent over the last 12 months. The results are contained in the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's ...

Financial Standard launches eFinancialCareers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Financial Standard has joined forces with the specialist financial services recruitment group eFinancialCareers to launch FinancialStandard.eFinancialCareers. eFinancialCareers is part of the Financial News group operating in the US, the UK and now ...

QIC and eG Capital form strategic alliance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
QIC, through its Queensland Biotechnology Fund (QBF), has taken a 20 per cent position in the biotech specialist investment house eG Capital. eG Capital, otherwise known as Emerging Growth Capital Pty Ltd, is a full service financial advisory and brokerage ...

Move over FinLit, CrickLit is on its way

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
The Financial Literacy Foundation's campaign to win the hearts and minds of Australian school children is set for major competition with Cricket Australia launching its own integrated educational kit that at first glance seems more developed. Cricket ...

RBC Dexia appointed fund admin for GS JBWere AM

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... decision to appoint RBC Dexia Investor Services would underpin that. Managing director of RBC Dexia Investor Services Australia, Alex Muto, agreed that the relationship would allow GS JBWere AM to focus on its core strategies to maintain growth. "Our ...

Increasing SG will cost 57,000 jobs: ACCI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has finally broken its silence regarding all the proposals to increase SG above 9 per cent, saying it will cost tens of thousands of jobs. The ACCI has, however, come out fighting now. "Reckless ...