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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... tight range for most of Monday's session but faded at the close. The main focus of the trading day was a new round of mergers and acquisitions, which raised hopes for the US economy. Financial shares rose after insurer American International Group Inc ...

Legalsuper member contributions rise

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... fallen now to 3.8 per cent at the end of January 2010). These voluntary contributions figures exclude inflows from the two mergers last year. Proebstl said legalsuper has been focusing member communication, including e-news and other printed reports/booklets ...

BNP Paribas merges with Fortis IM Aust

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... Investment Management Australia - creating a $23 billion-plus entity with BNP's local head Robert Harrison at the helm. The mergers comes less than nine months since BNP Paribas bought a majority shareholding in Fortis Bank. The legal integration is ...

Deloitte expands Islamic finance business

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... audit, internal audit, tax and consulting services for Islamic institutions. Deloitte also advises clients on strategy, mergers and acquisitions and assist in capital raising for Shariah compliant structures. "The Islamic finance industry is rapidly ...

Lachlan teams up with Investstone

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... fit with the group. "Although we have built our primary base in Melbourne, following a number of strategic acquisitions, mergers and alliances, broadening our footprint to reach more Australians is a key focus for us. "It is important to say that this ...

Trinity appoints chairman and MD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... chairman of Partners at McCullough Robertson and has been a partner of the firm since 1985, specialising in capital raising, mergers and acquisitions. Heading is currently chairman of ASX-listed ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals, and a former long-standing member ...

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... nominated themselves. The fund also noted a record number of companies asking shareholder approval on re-organisations, mergers and capitalisation changes. It said that generally, the number of such resolutions had historically been insignificant but ...

Planning firms on buying spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... guys that do a lot of risk have come out much better than those who say, do a lot of direct equities," he said. However mergers and acquisitions have not been prevalent in just the SME arena. Bigger firms such as Count Financial and Ipac Securities have ...

BNP Paribas appoints new AM chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... executive committee since 2004. Working at BNP Paribas for more than 20 years, Philippe has been involved in a number of mergers, including that of BNP Gestions and Paribas Asset Management. Under his new role, he will take over the process of successfully ...

Legal funds merge into Legalsuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... funds - the $140 million Victorian Bar Superannuation fund and the smaller Blake Dawson Partner's Superannuation Fund. The mergers bring legalsuper's total funds under management to over $1.1 billion, and with more than 36,000 total members legalsuper ...