The News Review:
- Research and Markets: Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds …
- Brookfield Asset Management to Refinance $800 Million of Debt
- Borders off 40% on wider loss narrowed options
- RDM Corporation reports fourth quarter and year end financial results
- Research and Markets: Wealth Management Planning: The UK Tax …
- Tikcro Technologies Reports 2008 Third Quarter Results and …
Research and Markets: Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds …
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liquidity risk leverage risk and counterparty risk.
Brookfield Asset Management to Refinance $800 Million of Debt
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27 (Bloomberg) — Brookfield Asset Management Inc. theToronto-based manager of $90 billion in assets such as realestate agreed to refinance $800 million of Australian-relateddebt and to combine its European operations. Brookfield is extending by one year to April 2010 thematurity of a loan of $1. 6 billion at inception that will shortlybe halved according to a statement today. Brookfield will repay$140 million in April next year and the rest 12 months later.
Borders off 40% on wider loss narrowed options
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But a sale of the company is apparently no longer on the table. “With respect to the sale of the company management is no longer contemplating a transaction” the company said. Borders said while it retains the right to sell Paperchase to Pershing Square Capital Management for $65 million – and is in discussions with Pershing “regarding an alternative financing transaction. ”
Pershing Square had pumped $42. 5 million into Borders earlier this year. Finally Standard Poor’s announced Tuesday that since Borders’ market capitalization had fallen to about a tenth of its requirement the company will be replaced in the SP MidCap 400 by precision instrument maker Mettler-Toledo International (.
RDM Corporation reports fourth quarter and year end financial results
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6 million in fiscal 2008 a decrease of 22%
from $33. – Payment Processing Services revenues generated by RDM’s Image
Transaction Management System (ITMS)(R) grew 75% to $6. 0 million
compared to $3. 4 million reported in 2007. – Gross profit was $9. 6 million or 36% of revenues compared to
$13.
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Research and Markets: Wealth Management Planning: The UK Tax …
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planning for both the UK domiciled and non-UK domiciled individual. It explains with worked practical examples the principles underpinning
the three main taxes: income tax; capital gains tax; and inheritance tax. The book is aimed at those involved in providing advice in the field of
wealth management planning as it seeks to provide such advisors with the
basics underpinning the relevant UK taxes. It is not intended for the
tax specialist although the tax generalist may find the book of help. Trusts are an integral part of any wealth tax planning exercise and
extensive discussion of the implications of both UK and non-UK resident
trusts is covered.
Tikcro Technologies Reports 2008 Third Quarter Results and …
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Net income for the third quarter was $550000 or $0. Net
income for the nine months ended September 30 2008 was $479000 or
$0. Net income in the third quarter was a result of
financial income from Tikcro’s holdings in BioCancell Therapeutics
Inc.