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Board changes at Plan B

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... managing director and chief financial officer have been appointed to the board of listed dealer group Plan B, after their company's takeover bid was made unconditional last month. In announcing the appointments, Plan B also said that Bryan Taylor, Craig ...

PE deals down: Mergermarket

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... Carlyle Group made the largest deal in Q3 when it acquiring DuPont Performance Coatings from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, in a deal valued at US$ 4.9 billion. Mergermarket's report also found that private equity firms were sitting tight on their ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... always, equity markets go up after it slashes global growth prediction. It might even be easier this time with Wall Street company earnings expectations so low and company CEO's providing poor earnings guidance. The Financial Times reports that the S&P ...

Arena appoints new chair

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... Jones. He has also chaired and acted as an executive and non-executive director on a variety of external and subsidiary company boards. Ross brings leadership experience to Arena across the full range of financial, operating and strategic functions from ...

Hybrid securities back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... year is Westpac's $1.6 billion offer, followed by ANZ's $1.5 billion offer. Joining the hybrid party is listed insurance company Suncorp with the launch of a $350 million Tier 1 hybrid two weeks ago. The Commonwealth Bank is also tapping into the growing ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... chairman and chief executive of News Corporation will be challenged by at least one Australian superannuation fund at the company's annual general meeting in Los Angeles on 16 October. A proposal that the News Corp chairperson be an independent director ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Australian Industry Group and Housing Industry Association release their performance of construction index for September. In company news, market operator ASX Ltd holds its annual general meeting. On Thursday on the local market, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

EM debt not to be overlooked: HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... alternative index benchmark analysis we compute a publicly listed Gross National Product composite and calculate individual company contributions to that. "This then forms the basis for the calculation of our economic value added weights." When this ...

TAL Direct appoints marketing head

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
TAL Direct, a division of life insurance company TAL (formerly known as TOWER Australia), has appointed Dave Hunt as chief marketing officer. Hunt brings over a decade's experience at the executive level and led significant brand turnarounds such as ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases retail trade and building approvals data for August. In company news, toll road operator Transurban holds its annual general meeting, and the Paydirt Australian Nickel Conference begins in ...