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Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits six year high

... reports meet their expectations. Reports are already trickling in but the heaviest period begins next week. In LONDON, Britain's FTSE 100 closed flat as investors readied for a looming deluge of US corporate results, although broadcaster Granada surged ...

AMP asks for more debt

AAP | TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2003

Troubled fund manager and life insurer AMP Ltd has reportedly asked Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) to accept a higher level of debt in its United Kingdom operations. AMP wanted permission to increase the debt in a "last ditch effort to ...

Morning Market Wrap: Busy day expected; Dollar bounces overnight

... available numbers. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 12.91 points or 0.69 per cent at 1893.48. In LONDON, Britain's top share index halted a three-day rally, nudged lower by banking stocks, with Lloyds TSB leading the pack lower amid ...

Lloyds TSB announces new strategy today

AAP | MONDAY, 6 OCT 2003

Britain's Lloyds TSB is expected to give an update on the $6 billion sale of its National Bank of New Zealand when it announces a new strategy to United Kingdom investors tonight, the Australian Financial Review reported. Australia's ANZ Banking Group ...

Morning Market Wrap: US stocks surge; AU$ weaker

... 1029.85, and the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average rallied 84.51 points or 0.89 per cent to 9572.31. In LONDON - Britain's top shares raced higher with economy-sensitive stocks like chemicals firm ICI and engineer GKN at the fore, after a reassuring ...

Macquarie Bank buys into UK water firm for $948m

AAP | THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003

... (SEW) and its affiliated businesses for about $948 million. SEW is the second largest of the 12 Water Only Companies in Britain and supplies 400 million litres of water a day to about 1.5 million people in the south east of England. Macquarie bought ...

Australian insurer AMP prefers UK demerger

AAP | TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003

... spokesman declined to comment. AMP is hoping to create two separate listed companies, one based in Australia and the other in Britain, by the end of 2003. Details of the memorandum will be published late in October. The 150-year-old company wants to ...

AMP considers option of raising money from its shareholders

... fresh capital to help it fulfil its aim of changing the ownership of Henderson North, its asset management business in Britain. Henderson North is currently owned by AMP's UK life fund Pearl but AMP wants to transfer the ownership to what will be its ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:33PM

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA | 11:56AM

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI | 11:09AM

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA | 12:20PM

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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