M2 PRESSWIRE-20 March 2008-Research and Markets: This Tracker Covers Merger And Acquisition Activity Globally In The Wealth Management SpaceC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:20032008 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c86459) has announced the addition of "M&A, Partnerships and Organic...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c86458) has announced the addition of "M&A, Partnerships and Organic Growth in Wealth Management, Q4 2007" to their offering. This tracker covers merger/acquisition activity globally in the wealth management space. It also highlights the strategic partnerships, and expansion or contraction of existing businesses....
The fall has been a time for examining many areas of interest to those in the public sector world of pensions and benefits. Over the past two months, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-New York) requested comments on the Pension Protection Act PPA of 2006 technical corrections...
Assemblyman Joel Anderson, R-El Cajon, has proposed legislation to sever the state,s two employee pension funds from companies that do business with Iran. AB 221--approved by the Assembly 75-0--would pull money invested by the California Public Employees' Retirement System and California State Teachers' Retirement System from foreign-owned companies involved...
Byline: Fleur Anderson May 06, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Finance Minister Nick Minchin has selected three investment banks to oversee the sale of Medibank Private in 2008. Minchin announced that Credit Suisse, ABN Amro Rothschild and Goldman...
When mutual fund investor Eric Cohen discovered in September that Fidelity Investments owned a big stake in PetroChina, which has an oil project in war-torn Sudan, he and two friends started FidelityOutOfSudan.com. Their aim: to push the Boston-based fund giant to sell stocks of some companies that do business in...
WIESBADEN, Germany AFP — German industrial gas giant Linde said Friday that bottom-line profits more than trebled last year, thanks to windfall gains from divestments, but also to a strong underlying performance. Linde said in a statement it booked net profit of 1.838 billion euros (2.4 billion dollars) in...
Byline: Ian Austen Jan 15, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Canadian mass media group CanWest is acquiring pay TV channel operator and program producer Alliance Atlantis for $C2.3bn ($A2.5bn). CanWest CEO Leonard Asper is rejecting speculation that this...
Byline: Robert Clow Nov 14, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Investment banking and stockbroking firm Goldman Sachs JB Were has appointed 18 new MDs across its Australasian operations. The split was about equal between the two sides of the business,...
ESSEN, Germany AFP — RWE -- Germany's second-biggest power supplier -- says it is raising its full-year 2006 profit forecast to take into account the windfall gains from the divestment of its Thames Water unit. At the same time, RWE denied any interest in moving into the Russian market and...
The Bush administration and big business interests have been accused of undermining efforts to exert financial pressure on the Sudanese government to stop the killing in Darfur. A bill that passed the US Congress endorsing state legislation to force publicly owned entities to sell off holdings in...
The Bush administration and big business interests have been accused of undermining efforts to exert financial pressure on the Sudanese government to stop the killing in Darfur. A bill that passed the US Congress endorsing state legislation to force publicly owned entities to sell off holdings in...
Byline: Neale Prior Aug 20, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Federal Court of Australia has ruled against rural conglomerate Futuris in a taxation matter. It decided that the Australian Taxation Office was right to demand an extra $47m...
Byline: Damien Lynch May 18, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian companies have been praised by the Australian Taxation Office ATO for the way they have responded to consolidation rules. Assistant commissioner, Peter Coakley, noted the high level...
ESSEN, Germany AFP — RWE, the second-biggest energy supplier in Germany, said that profit growth was slowed last year by writedowns against its US unit American Water, which the German group is looking to sell. But, higher electricity prices boosted RWE bottom line last year, with net profit rising...
Byline: Carolyn Cummins Sep 28, 2005 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- On 28 September 2005 the Australian-listed shopping centre group Westfield announced the divestment of a...
Byline: Eli Greenblat Aug 28, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Ramsay Health Care needs to comply with Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC concerns in...
Byline: Tracy Lee Jul 25, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Futuris Corporation's rural services group, Elders, is returning to the trustee services sector. On...
WASHINGTON -- The American Jewish Congress, an advocacy group, has launched a campaign to counteract an effort by some church groups divesting from companies that do business in Israel. The divestment is backed by the Presbyterian Church USA and other church groups that are unhappy with Israel's policies toward Palestinians....
DUESSELDORF, Germany AFP — Henkel, the German maker of Persil washing powder, says windfall gains from divestments helped boost bottom-line earnings last year, but the detergents and consumer chemicals group was also able to lift underlying earnings. Henkel said it booked net profit of 1.736 billion euros (2.2 billion...
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