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Aviva UK restructures insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
UK-based Aviva is restructuring its business to bring its life and general insurance businesses closer together to benefit from the company's scale. The new structure means both the life and general insurance businesses in the UK will have a shared ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry body CBI, urgent short-term steps must be taken if businesses struggling with the recession are not to be hit further ...

Praemium expands UK funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
ASX-listed Praemium Limited is on the brink of expanding its UK business after it approached the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) for authorisation of five new risk-based fund-of-fund portfolios. The new funds will be managed by UK-based Old ...

Praemium raises $8m working capital

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... sophisticated investors by way of private placement. Arthur Naoumidis, Praemium Group chief executive, said the Australian and UK business are well positioned for future growth. "The funds raised will be used to fund working capital and will ensure that ...

Præmium tackles UK SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Listed portfolio administration provider PrA|mium Limited is one step closer to establishing its UK business as the Financial Services Authority approved the new legal framework for Smartfund - its British adaptation of the Separately Managed Account ...

Praemium puts in place UK board

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
... board as the next step in its UK expansion strategy. The new board will monitor and advise on the development of the UK business, which was funded through the initial public offering and listing of the business in May. The board will take responsibility ...

Standard & Poor's puts DeAM fund on hold after sale

... was also placed on hold in January after a number of staff departures and uncertainty surrounding the future of the UK business. In other ratings actions Standard & Poor's has assigned an investment grade rating to Credit Suisse's new structured product ...

AMP over crisis, Wilcox to step down

... Australia," he said. The AGM was the first in many that the group did not have to explain the 'capital drain' of its UK business. "Since the demerger we have seen AMP's offshore investors grow from around 13 per cent of our shareholder register to over ...

SSgA appoints new UK head

State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) has appointed Paul Duncombe as its new managing director for its UK business. Paul Duncombe will report to senior vice president and head of international businesses Mark Lazburger. Duncombe joined SSgA in 1995 and ...

NAB trims UK workforce by 1,700

The National Australia Bank will cut 1,700 jobs, or 15 per cent of its UK workforce, over the next 12 to 18 months as the bank moves to 'rebuild, revitalise and grow' its banking operation in the UK. The bank is booking a provision of $266 million to ...