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Tansy Harcourt is a senior writer and columnist with the Australian. Tansy has worked in radio, TV and print and previously worked at the Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg and the ABC, with a four year “break” working in strategy at Qantas. Connect with Tansy via LinkedIn.

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FUND MANAGEMENTBusiness

25/8/22: Rob Adams is the chief executive of Perpetual. This morning they have struck a deal to acquire Pendal and create a fund manager with $201bn under management. John Feder/The Australian.

Perpetual’s Pendal takeover is ‘fair and reasonable’

An independent expert report has recommended shareholders back the $2.7bn deal, but warned there are risks if key investment managers decide to leave.

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fundsFinancial Services

16/12/2016: (L-R) Paul Skamvougeras head of equity and Vince Pezzullo newly appointed deputy head of equities at Perpetual, one of Australia's biggest fund managers. Photographed at their offices in Sydney on Friday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Perpetual’s Skamvougeras resigns amid merger

Perpetual’s longstanding head of equities Paul Skamvougeras has walked out the door as it remains in a messy three-way takeover tussle. Date set for Pendal vote.

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THOROUGHBREDSWealth

14/10/22 Assistant trainer Lucy Yeomans with Gold Trip at their stables in Cranbourne ahead of the Caulfield Cup. Aaron Francis / The Australian

The growing force behind the racing game

The corporatisation of horse racing has given the sector the same shape for investors as an ASX float, and has helped drive a boom in ownership syndicates.

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FUNDS MANAGEMENTBusiness

Perpetual to proceed with $2.7bn takeover

But a new higher scrip, lower cash offer means Pendal shareholders will hold 48.8 per cent of the combined company.

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CourtLegal Affairs

The 2016-17 Queensland Magistrates Court annual report reveals our courts were extremely busy last year.

Court set to rule on Perpetual’s takeover of Pendal

The battle between Perpetual and Pendal has dragged into a second day in court as Perpetual stalls in case of a potential higher offer from a Regal–EQT consortium.

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TakeoversCompanies

Perpetual moves from hunter to hunted

Perpetual has rejected an ‘under valued’ $1.7bn takeover bid from Baring and Regal and insists it plans to proceed with its takeover of Pendal instead.

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Business

26-06-19 - Anton Tagliaferro, Investment Director & Founder of Investors Mutual. Ryan Osland/The Australian

Hard landing looms after ‘inflation fail’

The Reserve Bank is failing to curb inflation, warns Investors Mutual founder Anton Tagliaferro.

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Investment bankingFinancial Services

Barrenjoey founding partner and chief executive Brian Benari.

Barrenjoey makes $5.3m profit in first full year of trading

Chief executive Brian Benari says Barrenjoey is ‘well-placed’ to manage the slowdown in takeovers and IPOs because of its expansion into fixed income.

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INSIDE STORYBusiness

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 01: People walk past Medibank advertising on October 1, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. The Abbott government is privatising Australia's largest health insurer, Medibank Private in what will be the biggest Australian initial public offering since 2010. Medibank Private will list on the Australian Stock Exchange in December of this year. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Will anything change after the Medibank hack?

Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has been helping guide the health insurer by sharing her ‘learnings’ from an earlier data breach that exposed highly personal customer information.

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Trouble aheadCompanies

Link Market Services float at the ASX in Sydney.CEO John McMurtrie (left) and Chairman Michael Carapiet.

Strike notice looms for Link at AGM

Link chairman Michael Carapiet has warned against a second strike action at the takeover target’s upcoming AGM.

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