Posts tagged: M&G
Saturday, 21 October 2023, 8:44 am
Former FT hack Izabella Kaminska was kind enough to invite little old Betaville back onto her Blind Spot Markets Live show yesterday morning.
It was a bit of gloomy day in the wider market but there were quite a few things to talk about, including a few UNCOOKED rumours. Below is a link to yesterday's transcript in case you missed it:..
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Betaville IntelligenceFriday, 14 April 2023, 7:59 am
Dominic "Dom" Walsh, veteran leisure hack on The Times business section, appears to be hearing similar things to little old Betaville on the M&G takeover situation.
This morning Dom reports that Macquarie is rumoured to be talking to multiple insurance companies, such as Phoenix, about mounting a joint bid for M&G, the FTSE 100-listed asset manager.
Fancy that!
Below is a link to Dom's piece:..
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Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 4:28 pm
Some curious comments have emerged from down under about the Macquarie - M&G takeover situation.
"There are so many speculated transactions. So we wait and talk about them once they are actually done."
That's what the boss of Macquarie, Shemara Wikramanayake, said at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday...
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Thursday, 2 March 2023, 10:35 am
There has been a somewhat muted response this morning to Mark, "The Kleinmanator", Kleinman's scoop about Macquarie weighing an offer for FTSE 100-listed fund manager M&G.
Below is a link to the Mark's scoop, which contains some strong detail, including the fact that Macquarie had appointed advisers from Morgan Stanley to work on the deal for M&G...
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Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 7:01 pm
Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman of Sky News just popped up with a corking story about a potential takeover of M&G, the FTSE 250-listed fund manager.
According to Kleinman (a former colleague on The Daily Telegraph), Australian banking giant Macquarie is weighing a £5 billion plus bid for for M&G...
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Saturday, 25 February 2023, 11:31 am
There are plenty of takeover rumours to chew over this weekend.
M&G, for example, popped up in several British newspaper stock market reports. Financial hacks at The Times and the Daily Mail reported that the FTSE 100-listed investment manager was yesterday at the centre of bid speculation...
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Monday, 30 January 2023, 7:28 am
BP's low valuation makes it a takeover target.
Well, that's according to fund manager M&G - which is a shareholder in BP - via the front page of The Sunday Times business section...
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Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 11:39 am
Shares in Pensana, the London-listed rare earth minerals supplier, are up almost 10pc stoday after the company issued shares via placing at a premium to a blue chip investment house.
M&G Investment Management is paying 81p a share, or £10 million, for just over 12.3 million shares (around 5pc of the company) in Pensana. Below is a link to the company's press release:..
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Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 9:40 pm
Hacks at Bloomberg have just landed a big fund management scoop - Schroders has been looking at a £5 billion plus takeover of M&G. Below is the link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/schroders-studied-m-g-deal-to-build-1-trillion-asset-manager..
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