Brookfield Announces Termination of Swap Agreement with AIG

Internacional (Marketwired, 23 de Agosto de 2013) Brookfield Asset Management Inc. ("Brookfield") (NYSE:BAM)(TSX:BAM.A)(EURONEXT:BAMA) announced today that it has reached agreement with American Insurance Group, Inc. ("AIG") to terminate two related 25-year interest rate swap agreements executed in 1990 between Brookfield and AIG (the "Swap Agreement"). As consideration for terminating the Swap Agreement, Brookfield agreed to pay a single lump sum payment of US$905 million to AIG. The Swap Agreement, which was accounted for in Brookfield's financial statements as at June 30, 2013 as an approximate $1.4 billion liability, was subject to litigation that had been pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and will be dismissed in conjunction with the consensual termination of the Swap Agreement.

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LASOS-The Latin American Shared Owership Summit El lujo de intercambiar experiencias

COLOMBIA (AndeanWire, 23 de Agosto de 2013) RCI®, empresa líder mundial en la industria de Intercambios Vacacionales y Bienes Raíces Orientados al Turismo en conjunto con su marca Luxury Markets Symposium®, celebrará los próximos 23 y 24 de Octubre 2013, en Bogotá, Colombia, el evento más importante y único en su clase: LASOS – The Latin American Shared Ownership Summit.

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Siete claves para competir en un mundo globalizado

COLOMBIA (AndeanWire, 23 de Agosto de 2013) Si piensa que gestionar la innovación en su empresa es implementar un buzón de sugerencias para obtener ideas y, si además no está convencido de que la innovación es un tema que está al alcance de cualquier organización y que es un factor para la  diferenciación y ventaja competitiva, usted está dejando de lado grandes oportunidades de crecimiento. 

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Specialty Reports, Inc. Launches Truckchex

Internacional (Marketwired, 23 de Agosto de 2013) Specialty Reports, Inc., a subsidiary of Sparta Commercial Services, Inc., (OTCQB: SRCO) announced today the launch of Truckchex, an online source for history reports on commercial and heavy duty trucks. The introduction of Truckchex (www.truckchex.com) follows Cyclechex, an online source for motorcycle history reports, and RVChecks, an online source for recreational vehicle (RV) history report. Those earlier released online products have been sold in every state in the United States, and the District of Columbia, as well as in forty-seven foreign countries.

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