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ACCC to review Perpetual's Trust Company takeover

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will review Perpetual's proposed takeover of The Trust Company. The consumer watchdog says it wants to assess whether the merger will substantially lessen competition in market. Earlier this ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
It's getting close. It's less than two weeks away. Then we're in May -- that month of the year when the old Wall Street adage tells investors everywhere to sell and go away. And right on cue, the financial news are getting gloomier. We've already touched ...

Three new GMs at ipac

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Three new general managers are set to join ipac's state based advice businesses, it was announced today. Eric Gibson, Nick Brinkworth and Craig Weber have been appointed as general managers of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria respectively following ...

Pepper acquires Spanish loan business Celeris

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Mortgage lender Pepper Group announced today an agreement to acquire Spanish consumer loan business Celeris. The acquisition includes a portfolio of approximately 164,000 performing consumer loans and a small non performing loan book, which represents ...

Non-bank lender completes public securitisation

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
An Australian non-bank lender yesterday completed a public securitisation issue using prime loans originated by GE Capital. Pepper, a financial services provider specialising in domestic and commercial property, said the issue was well supported by ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... years. Industrial services company Spotless has agreed to a full take-over by private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for a total cash consideration of $2.71 per share. The offer values Spotless at $720.2 million. Its shares had shot up 10.5 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
The Australian share market opened slightly higher, with broad-based gains against a positive international backdrop of growth. At the open (AEDT), the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 40.8 points, or 0.97 per cent, at 4,245.1 and the broader All Ordinaries ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
Boing! That's the sound heard all over Wall Street overnight - the sound of rebounding US eco stats, that is. The Street jumped high and pushed the S&P 500 up by 1.1% to its highest close since the 10th of May and 10 points shy of the three-year summit ...

Platypus wins court case

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
A Victorian Supreme Court Justice ruled in favour of Platypus Asset Management yesterday, in its dispute with a former employee. Philip Pepe was employed as a senior analyst at Platypus from April 2006 to October 2007. In August 2008 he filed a claim ...

BUSS(Q) hires advice and contributions manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
Queensland fund BUSS(Q) has hired Damien Simonfi and David Southwood to fill two newly created positions of financial advice manager and contributions arrears manager. BUSS(Q) has appointed Southwood as financial advice manager. Southwood will focus ...