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LSE and Italian bourse to merge

AIG builds major risk upgrade for AON

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... under-insurance needs. The new features include new age-based minimum level default death and disablement insurance cover for corporate members, and death only insurance cover for personal members. It also combines an extensive range of other features. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
... opens this morning. At 0752 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index was up 30 points to 6298. In corporate news today, the Australian Council of Super Investors Conference will be held in Melbourne. Resource stocks led the market's ...

No special rules needed for PE: FSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... exercise to understand the issues and risks inherent in dealing with financial distress and default in a heavily traded corporate name." Private equity associations and managers should also expect more official inquiries as the International Organisation ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... overnight, as bond yields shot to their highest level in five years. There were fears higher borrowing costs could cut into corporate profits and discourage takeovers. Bond market investors have all but given up expectations for a Federal Reserve rate ...

Westpac adds to growing trophy cabinet

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... The awards top off a long list of recent awards for Westpac, including World's Most Sustainable Bank, number one in corporate responsibility, Australian sustainable company of the year and Best Home Loan Package and Best Featured Home Loan, awarded by ...

Public companies should learn from private equity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... claims used by raiders to justify a private equity takeover. This will, however, require a change in thinking among corporate boards, which can be controlled by conservative people who are not resourced to actively participate in their companies, said ...

Caught in the Web 2.0

... company with a flat hierarchy and where teams can communicate through instant messaging or exchange ideas through their corporate blogs. While the chief executive officers of many finance companies don't know much about social computing, Carr predicts ...

B&B, Primelife form largest retirement fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... development joint venture. Babcock and Brown will retail a 10 per cent holding in the new company. Rob Topfer, global head of corporate finance at Babcock and Brown, said the joint venture marked the start of the next chapter of Primelife and Babcock ...

Risk awareness up, costs down: Aon

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
Corporate governance again emerged as the top risk concern for executives in Aon's annual survey, with changing compliance and regulatory burdens and personal liability fears the primary drivers. The fifth annual Australasian Risk Management and Total ...