Marsh & McLennan to sell Putnam for $3.9 billion
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Insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.  said on Thursday that it would sell Putnam Investments to Great-West Lifeco Inc. for $3.9 billion.
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Oracle Corp. , the world's top database software maker, is near an agreement to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. , which makes software that lets companies analyze and track their performance, for about $3 billion, The New York Times said Wednesday in its online edition.
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It has agreed that the company should be sold to Oracle for $26.50 a share, roughly $10.3 billion, $1.5 billion more than Oracle&#39;s now-famous &quot;best and final&quot; offer.
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Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. (MMC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , at the center of a bid-rigging scandal rocking the insurance industry, on Tuesday said it will cut 3,000 jobs and said
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Motorola said Tuesday that it would pay $3.9 billion for Symbol Technologies, a maker of scanners and other wireless technology.
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PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday agreed to a sweetened $10.3 billion buyout by rival software maker Oracle Corp., relenting after a 18-month takeover saga that included the ouster of PeopleSoft&#39;s chief executive.
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Oracle Corp.  on Monday said rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.'s  board has accepted a sweetened purchase offer of about &#36;10.3 billion, ending a long and bitter hostile takeover battle.
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Oracle has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion Solutions for $3.3 billion in cash, it said on Thursday.
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Shares of Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. , the world's largest insurance brokerage, had their biggest gain in almost three months after The Wall Street Journal said the broker may settle New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's bid-rigging charges next week.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- General Electric Co. said Thursday it agreed to sell a majority stake in its advanced materials unit to private investment group Apollo Management LP in a deal it valued at $3.8 billion.
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TORONTO/VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Canadian insurer Great-West Lifeco Inc.  said on Thursday it will buy ailing money manager Putnam Investments from Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.  for $3.9 billion in a bid to gain a key foothold in the U.S. asset management market.
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Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.  could be in a good position to get an impressive price for its Putnam Investments money management arm, despite some recent troubles at the unit, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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Officials of embattled Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. yesterday moved to squelch speculation that its Boston money management firm, Putnam Investments, will be divorced from its corporate parent, either in a sale to an outside buyer or through a private buyout engineered by Putnam executives.
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PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday agreed  to a sweetened $10.3 billion buyout by rival software maker  Oracle Corp., relenting after a 18-month takeover saga that  included the ouster of PeopleSoft's chief executive.
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Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. (MMC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , which has been at the center of a bid-rigging scandal rocking the insurance industry, on Tuesday said it will cut 3,000
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Two former directors at Putnam Investments have agreed to pay $400,000 each to settle charges that they had engaged in improper trading.
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