Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Fortis is betting on risky assets in 2009 recommending equities for the short-term and corporate bonds longer-term, said William De Vijlder, global chief investment officer at the financial group.
euronews24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
UTRECHT, Netherlands – Shareholders of Fortis NV, the Belgian-Dutch lender which saw most of its operations sold or nationalized last month due to the credit crunch, booed members of the board at a meeting Monday and vented their anger over se
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Shareholders of Fortis NV, the Belgian-Dutch lender that saw most of its operations sold or nationalized last month due to the credit crunch, booed members of the board at a meeting yesterday and vented their anger over seeing their investments in the company decimated.
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Scandals In 2007, Fortis was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue but a risky and overly leveraged acquisition of ABN Amro led to the bank's demise and government-led selloff that left shareholders all but wiped out. It's too late to do anything about the massive losses, but some angry shareholders did show up at the company's board meeting in the Netherlands to give...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
BRUSSELS/UTRECHT, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Fortis shareholders on Monday voted against two new board members but backed the appointment of its new chief executive Karel de Boeck.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
BRUSSELS, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Belgium's top administrative court has cast doubt on the legality of the Belgian government's planned coupon for shareholders of troubled financial group Fortis , business daily De Tijd said on Tuesday.
Market Wire - Financial Services (Free subscription) | yesterday
SOURCE: FORTISDec 01, 2008 13:50 ETResolutions of the General Meeting of Shareholders of Fortis N.V. held on 1 December 2008BRUSSEL, BELGIUM--(Marketwire - December 1, 2008) - The General Meeting of Shareholders of Fortis N.V. has approved of the proposed appointments of Messrs. Etienne Davignon, Louis Cheung Chi Yan and Karel De Boeck to the Board of Directors of Fortis....
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
BRUSSELS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Chinese insurer Ping An should not count on any compensation from Belgium over its losses following the state-led carve-up of financial group Fortis, according to the Belgian government.
Forbes (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was the first time in months that shareholders were allowed to cast a vote on the final chapter of the Fortis (other-otc: - - ) saga--or its new beginning, if the story has a future. Regardless of who ends up on the board, investors seemed to have given up on Fortis wholesale: with BNP Paribas (other-otc: - - ) set to acquire the company's Belgian assets, and with the Dutch government...
EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
The General Meeting of Shareholders of Fortis N.V. has approved of the proposed appointments of Messrs. Etienne Davignon, Louis Cheung Chi Yan and Karel De Boeck to the.. - Read more
Global Financial News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Scandals In 2007, Fortis was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue but a risky and overly leveraged acquisition of ABN Amro led to the bank's demise and government-led selloff that left shareholders all but wiped out. It's too late to do anything about the massive losses, but some angry shareholders did show up at the company's board meeting in the Netherlands to give...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shareholders of Fortis NV, the Belgian-Dutch lender which saw most of its operations sold or nationalized last month due to the credit crunch, booed members of the board at a meeting Monday and vented their anger over seeing their investments in the company decimated.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
AMSTERDAM, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Dutch and Belgian shareholder groups proposed on Friday an alternative list of nominees to the Fortis board of management ahead of shareholder meetings next week to vote on a change of company management.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese insurer Ping An is asking the Chinese government to help seek compensation from Belgium over its losses in European financial group Fortis after the group was nationalised, a government source said on Friday.
