Perpetual, Acorn pick up Capral pieces

Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald

Feb 8, 2013 – 4.42pm

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Perpetual Investments and Acorn Capital have emerged as two big buyers of Guinness Peat Group’s stake in Capral , which was sold in a block trade earlier this week.

Acorn took about 21 million shares or about $4.6 million of stock, according to an ASX statement published on Friday, while Perpetual took about 10 million shares worth $2.2 million.