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- a proposal put to a meeting, for example, an Annual Meeting of shareholders, on which those present and eligible can vote.
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- Banks drive FTSE higher.
- Standard Life helps gains Jonathan Eley London shares rose on Monday as a rally in the banking sector and gains for Standard Life after it refused to up its offer for Resolution drove gains, FT.com reports. The FTSE 100 was 0.8 per cent stronger...
- Research articles 2007-11-12
- CAN CROMBIE CHECK PEARL'S AMBITION? Standard Life has come under
- !!CORRECTION!! Please note that Pearl Group was working in consortium with Royal London not London Life as the articles below states. THE gloves finally came off in the battle for insurer Resolution this week. Ever since Pearl Group director Hugh Osmond bought a small restaurant...
- Research articles 2007-11-04
- Four insurers, two deadly rivals - but there can only be one zombie
- Personal enmity underlies a bruising bid battle in the closed life insurance market. Simon Evans takes a ringside seat 2007 has certainly been the year of the protracted bid battle. The London Stock Exchange chief executive Clara Furse successfully fended off Nasdaq's advance after a six-month tussle, while...
- Research articles 2007-11-04
- Resolution ponders Standard Life's Pounds 4.9bn bid
- By Sean FarrellFinancial Editor The board of Resolution was meeting last night to decide on its response to yesterday's last-minute 4.9bn takeover approach from Standard Life. Standard Life proposed an offer of 517p a share in cash and 0.715 Standard Life shares for each Resolution share....
- Research articles 2007-10-26
- Standard Life mulls last-minute bid in battle for Resolution
- By Sean FarrellFinancial Editor Standard Life's potential bid for rival insurer Resolution was finely balanced last night as it workedtowards getting a recommendation from the Resolution board ahead oftoday's deadline. The Takeover Panel has given Standard Life until 5pm today to make anoffer to break up...
- Research articles 2007-10-25
- Pearl spurned again despite higher bid for Resolution
- By James Moore The battle for control of the life insurer Resolution intensified yesterday as Pearl made a formal 4.7bn takeover offer. But although the 691p-a-share offer is 31p higher than itsoriginal proposal, the lowball bid was still well below Resolution's share price, which jumped to...
- Research articles 2007-10-20
- Resolution Life rejects Pounds 4.5bn offer from Pearl
- By James Moore and Sean Farrell Resolution Life yesterday threw out a 4.5bn cash takeover proposal from rival closed-life insurance operator Pearl in favour of its preferred all-share merger of equals with Friends Provident. The 669p-a-share indicative offer - that is conditional on a recommendation from...
- Research articles 2007-10-11
- Takeover bid_Rival insurers set to join forces to thwart Resolution-
- Pearl Assurance, the life company stalking fellow insurer Resolution, is expected to team up with Standard Life to make a joint bid for the group. Resolution is tomorrow set to provide investors with an offer document for its proposed nil-premium merger with Friends Provident. But analysts think Pearl,...
- Research articles 2007-10-07
- Resolution to restructure deal for Friends to head off Pearl
- Life insurer Resolution yesterday pledged to shake up its [pound]8bn planned merger with Friends Provident in an attempt to prevent rival Pearl from blocking the deal. Hugh Osmond's Pearl - which runs closed life insurance funds, as does Resolution - has built up a stake of nearly...
- Research articles 2007-07-31
- Pearl poised for knockout Resolution bid
- Pearl Group, the life insurance firm run by Hugh Osmond, will seek talks with the board of Resolution this week to put a [pound]4.5bn takeover of the company on the table. It is believed that Mr Osmond and his advisers will meet with Resolution, led by chief...
- Research articles 2007-07-29
- Pearl increases its share of Resolution
- Hugh Osmond's Pearl ratcheted up the pressure on rival life insurer Resolution yesterday by further boosting its stake in the company to 15.85 per cent. Pearl bought an 11.28 per cent stake on Thursday night in a "dusk raid" on its rival, and added to its interest...
- Research articles 2007-07-28
- Unite says that Pearla??s intervention in Resolution and Friends Provident merger will result in more uncertainty for staff.
- LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Jul 27, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Unite Amicus Section have said that Pearl's suggestion that the merger between Resolution and Friends Provident is 'flawed' was causing employees more anxiety. There is speculation that Pearl might make a rival bid for...
- Research articles 2007-07-27
- FTSE settles in positive territory.
- Caution prevails ahead of Wall Street open Jonas Crosland Early volatility has given way to uncertainty in London as investors await the start of trading on Wall Street. Some bounce is expected after yesterday's dismal performance, with expectations centring on an initial 50...
- Research articles 2007-07-27
- ExxonMobil's Tillerson Prevails But Management Doubts Remain
- The drama is over in Dallas... for now. ExxonMobil management has prevailed in shooting down dissident shareholder resolutions to split the role of CEO and chairman now held by Rex W. Tillerson and other resolutions regarding reducing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting renewable energy. The confrontation had...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Resolution to buy Abbey life insurance units for 3.6 billion pounds
- LONDON AFP — British insurance firm Resolution has said it would buy the life insurance activities of Abbey National, the British bank owned by Spanish peer Banco Santander Central Hispano SCH. The deal values Abbey's life insurance businesses at 3.6 billion pounds (5.2 billion euros, 6.7 billion dollars), Resolution...
- Research articles 2006-06-07
- Tales from the Trenches: The Ups and Downs of Parental Leave
- Cranky bosses, inflexible schedules, going into labor at work. These five parents navigated the tricky waters of when to take parental leave — and when to come back. Anne San Diego, CA Job at time of parental leave: Instructor at a major university...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- 2002 NCSS House of Delegates
- Resolutions Before the House * November 22-23, 2002 * Phoenix, Arizona Because of a failure in the audio recording system at the House of Delegates session at the NCSS Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 2002, Social Education is unable to present the minutes of the proceedings. The...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
- The European systems of central banks: quo vadis?
- I. INTRODUCTION After years of unsuccessful attempts to achieve monetary integration within the area of the European Union Elf,(1) the Economic and Monetary Union EMU, as set forth under the newly designed Treaty Establishing the European Community EC Treaty,(2) entered the third and final stage of monetary integration on...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- Set Your Own Screen Resolution on a Shared PC with Carroll
- Sharing a computer is the pits. If you're stuck in a "shared resource workspace" or split alternating shifts with someone on the same PC, I feel for you -- I really do. One of about a million annoyances with that sort of arrangement is that everyone on the same PC...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Can Avatars Lead us to a New Model of Dispute Resolution?
- Online games are an impressive collective experience involving many sophisticated users. When the need for online dispute resolution first surfaced, there was a sense that courts were not well-suited for many of the disputes that would arise online. This have the potential to contribute to a new ADR approach, one...
- White papers 2003-11-10
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