Mass. fund to sell stocks of Sudan-related firms
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Massachusetts' state pension fund, one of America's biggest and most successful, plans to sell some $80 million in holdings of companies that invest in Sudan, becoming the latest investor to protest violence there.
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Gold Fields will be expected to sell its international assets valued at up to $3.5 billion and return the cash to shareholders as part of its defence against a hostile all-share bid from rival gold producer Harmony.
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The company that runs the Franklin Templeton mutual funds yesterday admitted that it allowed an investor to market-time its funds in exchange for putting $10 million into a start-up hedge fund at the firm, according to a settlement with the Massachusetts Securities Division.
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Bayer continued with its strategic refocusing, announcing on Monday the sale of its plasma business to two US private capital funds.
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State-linked investment funds in Qatar and Singapore are interested in buying almost one third of the London Stock Exchange from the US Nasdaq market, British media reported on Monday.
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Business & money: Bonanza for founders as hedge fund GLG Partners unveils plans to float on New York stock market.
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Fidelity Investments plans a series of meetings with Massachusetts economic development officials, following the Boston mutual-fund giant's disclosure on Tuesday it may create up to 1,500 jobs in a Dallas suburb.
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Merrill Lynch agreed on Monday to sell $5 billion of new stock to an investor from Singapore and a smaller stake to a domestic firm.
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NEW YORK -- Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. will proceed with a plan to sell about $800 million of bonds from a money-losing hedge fund run by Bear Stearns Cos. , a day after delaying a similar auction, people with knowledge of the offering said.
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BOSTON -- Actions by Bank of America after its acquisition of Fleet Boston Financial Corp. have caught the attention of the state treasurer, who has threatened to withdraw some state funds, and the Romney
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BERLIN - Bayer AG, the German drug and chemical company, has agreed to sell its plasma products business for $590 million in cash and stock to the private US investment groups Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand Ventures.
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Dutch bank and insurer ING Group said Monday it will sell the activities of Baring Asset Management, nearly a decade after it purchased the remains of the bankrupt British bank Barings.
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Sallie Mae  said on Wednesday  it plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory  convertible securities to help pay off derivatives contracts  that amounted to a bet that its share price would keep  increasing.
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Massachusetts gets a $5 million settlement as the fund firm admits that an investor engaged in market timing.
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BOSTON (AFX) -- The first exchange-traded fund investing in gold bullion will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, said sources familiar with the situation.
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Sallie Mae said on Wednesday that it plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory convertible securities to help pay off obligations linked to the student loan company's share buyback program.
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Massachusetts public officials should reach out to out-of-state companies that take over Massachusetts firms and encourage them to grow here, state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill said yesterday as he launched a business task force to look for ways to bring more jobs to Massachusetts.