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AXA releases new North

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... 34 per cent last year to $1.64 billion. Rainmaker reported that once the AMP/AXA acquisition is completed, the new conglomerate will climb into third place of the platform market share with 15.8 per cent, as per Platform funds under administration (FUA) ...

Platforms bounce back after GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... OnePath is ranked fifth on 8.4 per cent. Rainmaker reported that once the AMP/AXA acquisition is completed, the new conglomerate will climb into third place with 15.8 per cent, pushing CFS down a notch into fourth. According to the report, there are ...

AIG sells Nan Shan stake

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... agreed to offload its 97.57 per cent interest in Nan Shan to Ruen Chen, a company 80 per cent owned by Taiwanese conglomerate Ruentex Group and 20 per cent by Pou Chen Corporation. The transaction will cost $2.16 billion in cash. "Ruen Chen offers strong ...

Bidding time for AMP

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) with its original bid for the company - Australia's fifth largest advice conglomerate by number of advisers, according to Rainmaker Information, way back in November '09. The independent directors of AXA APH held ...

IOOF agrees to buy North

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... the market. Westpac/BT would be number one with 29 per cent. Across the overall platform market, the combined NAB conglomerate would control almost 25 per cent of the market, one-third more than the number two player. The ACCC has declined to comment ...

SAP and Sybase merger gets ACCC tick

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... largely complementary." "The ACCC also considered that the proposed acquisition was unlikely to raise concerns on a conglomerate basis. Post acquisition, there would remain a number of significant competitors to the merged firm in each product category." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... positive side, the market reacted favorably to better than expected corporate earnings and a 20 per cent increase in conglomerate General Electric's quarterly dividend, analysts said. LONDON - European stocks closed narrowly mixed in choppy trade on ...

APRA proposals could deter overseas firms: AXA

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... stay that way. He said a number of regulatory proposals outlined in APRA's discussion paper on the supervision of conglomerate groups could hinder the country from becoming a regional financial services hub. "While one understands regulators' natural ...

Korea's big four dominate pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
The top four service providers in Korea administer around half of all funded corporate pension assets in the country, and account for KRW 7 trillion of assets, according to Towers Watson's Korea Pension Report. The new report covers 53 service providers ...

Norwegian pension excludes tobacco firms

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... Government Pension Fund Global is a very active responsible investor. Last year, the fund placed the European engineering conglomerate, Siemens AG, 'on observation' after it was revealed the company had been embroiled in corruption early last year.