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- Yahoo Shareholder Pushes for Microsoft Search Deal
- Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory’s assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
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- Friends Ivory & Sime Announces Joint Venture With Sumitomo Life Company of Japan
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--June 7, 1999-- Friends Ivory & Sime, the UK-listed investment management firm, today announced it has acquired a 15 percent stake in Sumisei Global Investment Trust Management Company, Ltd., a $2 billion mutual fund company formerly known as Taiheiyo Investment Management Company Ltd. The announcement follows the...
- Research articles 1999-06-07
- Yahoo Shareholder Pleas With Board To Make $15 Billion Search Deal With Microsoft
- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) investor Ivory Investment Management went public today with a plea to the board to sell the search business to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for what it estimates could be $15 billion. MarketWatch reports that Ivory, which owns a 1.5 percent stake in Yahoo, issued an open letter...
- External links 2008-12-10
- Friends Ivory & Sime Forms Joint Venture to Spearhead Asian Expansion
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 2, 1999-- Friends Ivory & Sime FIS, a London-based investment management firm with offices in New York, Edinburgh, Tokyo and Hong Kong, today announced a joint venture with the Guoco Group, a Hong Kong listed company whose core businesses are in banking and financial services. ...
- Research articles 1999-12-02
- Yahoo! cuts staff as investor urges sale
- Yahoo! is making the first of 1,500 job cuts and says harsher redundancies could follow next year. The move, first announced in October, aims to reduce annual costs by USD400m and comes as one of Yahoo!'s biggest shareholders puts renewed pressure on the firm to reach a deal with...
- Articles 2008-12-11
- Friends Provident merges fund management arm with Ivory & Sime in
- Friends Provident has agreed to merge its fund management arm with the struggling Ivory & Sime company in a pounds 132m reverse takeover that will create the largest investment house in Scotland. Peter Jones, chief executive of Friends Provident Asset Management, will become chief executive of the new...
- Research articles 1997-11-08
- In brief: Friends Ivory & Sime loses Battersby/Jupiter SRI/JPMorgan Fleming upgraded.
- William Battersby, a director of sales and marketing at UK fund manager Friends Ivory & Sime, is leaving the firm. Battersby worked at Royal & SunAlliance Investments for five years before it was taken over by Friends Ivory & Sime earlier this year. The marketer previously...
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- Ivory & Sime to rebrand as Isis
- THE name Friends Ivory & Sime is to disappear from the investment market in early 2003 as the fund management group reincarnates as Isis - the ancient Egyptian goddess of motherhood. The Isis name is being adopted because FIS chief executive Howard Carter wants to differentiate the...
- Research articles 2002-07-21
- Ivory & Sime in takeover spotlight as chief quits
- The recent staff turmoil at Ivory & Sime, the Edinburgh fund management group, came to a head yesterday with the ousting of managing director Colin Hook by Caledonia Investments, the group's largest shareholder. Mr Hook is being replaced immediately by Sir David Kinloch, deputy chief executive of Caledonia,...
- Research articles 1997-02-04
- PSS/CSS goes global, as bond search continues.
- Mar 17, 2003 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) The Public & Commonwealth Sector Super Schemes (PSS/CSS) has rejigged its investment portfolio. Among the losers from the changes are ABN Amro Asset Management, Friends Ivory & Sime, Merrill Lynch Investments, JPMorgan Investment Management,...
- Research articles 2003-03-17
- Friends Ivory & Sime regroups.
- Fund manager Friends Ivory & Sime FIS is reviewing bid targets, such as Edinburgh Fund Managers EFM, after failing to buy SLC Asset Management. Predatory interest in EFM is spreading following the decision of the company to sack its chief investment officer Mike Balfour...
- Research articles 2001-11-05
- Richards quits Friends Ivory & Sime for Goldman Sachs.
- Byline: Mike Foster Paul Richards, head of institutional business at Fr; Sime, the UK investment manager, has quit to join Goldman Sachs Asset Management GSAM. Richards is to represent GSAM to consultants. He will report to Oliver Bolitho. Other members of the GSAM business...
- Research articles 2002-05-23
- Friends cedes unit trusts to Ivory
- FRIENDS PROVIDENT said yesterday that it had ceded control of its pounds 1.14bn unit trust business to Friends Ivory & Sime, in which Friends owns a majority stake, in return for pounds 128.9m. The deal, which includes 28.4 million new shares in the fund manager, takes Friends Provident's stake from...
- Research articles 2001-02-03
- First State appoints head of investment trusts.
- Byline: Pirkko Juntunen First State Investments, the asset management firm owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia, has appointed Lucy Allan as head of investment trusts.Allan was previously working with the UBS Warburg investment trust team on a contract basis. She will join First State...
- Research articles 2002-07-29
- The Investment Column: Recovery looks to be priced into Isis
- ISIS ASSET Management has become known for its bolshie stance on corporate governance, but what of its own performance? With stock markets rebounding, things have looked better of late. Despite a pre-tax loss of pounds 8.7m for the year, its second-half losses had narrowed. Isis is upbeat...
- Research articles 2004-03-02
- Ivory Coast; the easing of cash flow crisis frees up funds to buy goods and services
- Government financial management continues to be a key determinant of the health of the Ivorian economy. In the late 1970s, the government embarked on a very ambitious investment plan based first on then record coffee and cocoa prices and later on the widespread expectation of substantial offshore oil revenues....
- Research articles 1985-10-28
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Isis is an ambitious play
- BEAR MARKETS are no picnic for fund managers, and Isis Asset Management - the renamed Friends, Ivory & Sime - has endured its fair share of difficulties. But Isis was yesterday able to tell investors that despite a 10 per cent drop in profits, revenues for the...
- Research articles 2003-07-29
- European conscience fund a first in U.S.
- * Friends Ivory & Sime, an Edinburgh-based investment firm with $57 billion under management, has chosen SEI Investments of Oaks, Pa., to administer and distribute its two new socially aware stock funds, one for Europe and one for this country. * Friends Ivory &...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- Isis and F&C get together in pounds 435m deal
- FRIENDS PROVIDENT, the UK life assurer, yesterday announced plans to buy a majority stake in F&C Management, the UK's largest investment trust manager, and to merge the company with Isis Asset Management, the London-listed fund manager in which Friends owns a 67 per cent stake. The newly...
- Research articles 2004-07-03
- The Selection, Care And Feeding Of Public Relations Counsel
- From the executive summary: ‘Today, most companies are finding that if they are to survive, public relations has to be more than just press agency or product publicity. It is becoming an increasingly important communications tool for explaining the firm to its many publics and explaining the publics to management....
- White papers 2003-03-16
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