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New chairman appointed at BOQ

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... Summerson announced at the annual general meeting in December 2012 that he intended to step aside in 2013. He will remain on the Board until 30 July 2013. "Last year I said I would retire when the Bank was delivering on its new strategy. I am confident ...

EQT gives more time to The Trust Company

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... is unclear," EQT chairman JA Killen said. EQT recently issued a revised proposal of acquisition after The Trust Company board recommended shareholders to accept the Perpetual proposal. The revised proposal offered 37 EQT shares for every 100 The Trust ...

Paragem FUA reaches $1.9bn after new mergers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... director and adviser at Dolfinwise Jason Bragger is on the Queensland Financial Planning Association (FPA) committee for board policy and regulations. Paragem managing director Ian Knox said that the growth is part of Paragem's controlled expansion with ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... falls to be more than 1.5 per cent lower at noon. RBS Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said it was an across-the-board decline, with the banks among the worst hit. "It is looking a bit sad today," Mr Bishop said. "The financials have taken ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used by Federal Reserve Board chairmen in making intentionally wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements". Damn, I don't even know what 'turgid' means. Here's ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... below-average economic growth in 2013. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said the minutes of the central bank's May 7 board meeting, at which it cut the cash rate to a record low, had prompted investors to reconsider the outlook for mining companies. ...

ACCC to review Perpetual's Trust Company takeover

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... Company in a deal which will see shareholders receive 0.1495 Pepetual shares for each Trust Company share. The Trust Company's board has unanimously voted in favour of the Perpetual proposal, despite a counter-offer from Equity Trustees.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... was up seven points at 5,227. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its May board meeting. Treasury Secretary Dr Martin Parkinson is scheduled to address the Australian Business Economists' lunch on Budgeting ...

The Trust Company rules out EQT takeover

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
The Trust Company looks set to become part of Perpetual after its board unanimously agreed the asset manager's offer was "superior" to a counter bid from Equity Trustees (EQT). In an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), The Trust ...

Energy Super awards mandates to four managers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... responsible investments portfolio. "As part of its continual review to ensure long term and consistent performance, the board decided that the fund had reached a scale where it was appropriate to move into direct mandates," Petrou continued. "This is ...