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EISS takes over FuturePlus

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... the Treasury, without LGS' knowledge. The proposed merger did not come to fruition, although it is understood that the tension between the two schemes made it difficult for FuturePlus to operate as a co-owned business.

IOOF agrees to buy North

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... be versatile in responding to future competing platform offerings... a merger of NAB and AXA would remove competitive tension," the regulator said in a statement released today. Echoing the ACCC's views, Chris Kelaher, IOOF managing director, said, "The ...

US pension plan deficits rise in June

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... pension expense along with other business metrics," he said. "Sponsors that choose to reduce risk need to consider the tension that exists between higher ongoing cost and lower volatility." Mercer estimates the aggregate value of pension plan assets ...

LGS sells FuturePlus share to EISS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... with LGS to the Treasury, without LGS' knowledge. The proposed merger was scuttled although it is understood that the tension between the two schemes made it difficult for FuturePlus to operate as a co-owned business.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... consumer confidence. A report on Friday that the US economy had lost jobs in June for the first time this year added further tension. A fall in the jobless rate to 9.5 per cent of the workforce failed to lift investor spirits, as it largely reflected ...

Tone down fund rivalry: Clitheroe

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... do not get involved with their super. "I wonder if, as an industry, we'd all benefit from if there wasn't quite so much tension in marketing platforms. "[I'd] appreciate it if you took your competitive hats for a second and worry about... underlying ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... prescribing a few months back to prevent the Chinese economy from overheating. Geopolitics. Here belongs the recent flare-up of tension between the two Koreas and more recently the Israel-Lebanon incident. Japan. It's Prime Minister resigned yesterday ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... you insist in getting your daily dose of gloom and doom, here it is. Europe is slowing global growth into a recession. Tension in the Middle East would cause oil prices to spike. And with BP still unable to plug its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, precious ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market has received mixed leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing weaker but contract prices for oil, gold, silver and copper ending firmer. At 0728 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract ...

US consumers to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... Spanish bank bailout. Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Tighter US financial regulation. And coming to a theatre near you...renewed tension in the Korean Peninsula and rising LIBOR rates. Take your pick. It's so easy to expand on any or all of these factors ...