DAVID CHAPLIN: AMP - the beginning of the end of the end?

DAVID CHAPLIN: AMP - the beginning of the end of the end?
David Chaplin
In what could mark the start of the last chapter in its storied 171-year history, AMP changed the plot again last week.Following an extraordinary few weeks that began with revelations of sexual harassment and ended with a chair falling over, the ASX-listed company put its remaining assets under ‘review’ – the corporate code for ‘make an offer’.Incoming AMP chair Debra Hazelton said while the board backed the current management makeover plan “we have taken a decisive step to undertake a portfolio review to ens...

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