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Macquarie Financial sells South African joint venture holding

... have grown by 89%, translating into a 40% increase in the company's market share of the Linked Product industry in South Africa. The head of Macquarie Financial Services Group's international division, Bruce Terry, said the sale of Macquarie's Innofin ...

Macquarie Bank says H2 significantly up on prior H2

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2003
Macquarie Bank Ltd today said the second half will be significantly up on the prior corresponding half. Managing director Allan Moss said domestic and international market conditions were favourable. "We are also experiencing markedly improved investor ...

Australian insurer AMP prefers UK demerger

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
... life insurers Pearl and NIP and fund manager Henderson Global Investors. British and Australian media have named South Africa's biggest insurer, Old Mutual Plc, as another potential suitor. Earlier this year, Old Mutual said it wanted to beef up its ...

Sudden OPEC move unlikely to impact Australia negatively: ICAP

The sudden 3.5 per cent or 900,000 barrels per day cut in oil supply announced by the OPEC is unlikely to have a major impact on Australian consumers. In an exclusive interview with the Financial Standard, ICAP chief economist Dr Ric Simes has said ...

Morning market wrap: Wall Street hit by OPEC cut in supply

... dollar. The reason for the oil supply cut has been attributed to the continuing crisis in Iraq and plans by non-OPEC Russia, Africa and Norway to increase their supply of oil in the global marketplace. The surprise move will likely hike energy costs ...

Short-term overseas visitor arrivals for August dips 0.2% to 391,300: ABS

... 74,800), 73,600 from Europe and the former USSR (with UK visitors numbering 36,000), 6,500 from the Middle East and North Africa, 44,100 from Southeast Asia, 36,700 from the Americas (with 30,200 from the USA) and 4,800 from Africa. Total short-term ...

AMP refuses to name UK business buyers

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2003
AMP Ltd today remained tightlipped about whether it had lined up three potential buyers for its troubled British life insurance businesses. Earlier today it was reported that South African insurer and funds manager Old Mutual, American buyout specialist ...

Macquarie appoints new head of Funds Management Group

... asset manager in that market. More recently he led the formation of joint ventures for the Bank in Korea, Taiwan and South Africa, each of which has assets under management and administration in excess of $US1 billion. He is chairman of the Korean joint ...

Macquarie broking business forms research alliance

Macquarie Bank Ltd's broking business has formed a research alliance with South Africa's Nedcor Securities and Canadian investment firm Scotia Capital Inc, Macquarie announced today. This alliance brings together more than 120 equities research specialists ...

Perennial adds Oshry to Value team

... Management, where he worked for 18 months. Prior to that Oshry worked for Arthur Andersen and Deutsche Asset Management in South Africa. Perennial Value has been one of the strongest performing Australian equities managers over the past three years as ...