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Canadian company to buy Putnam unit for nearly $4 billion

December 29, 2006

It is being reported to our debt free news department today that one huge financial firm is selling its Putnam Investments for an impressive $3.9 billion. The financial firm is selling the massive Putnam investment to a company from Canada.

In selling the nearly $4 billion deal, the firm Marsh and McLennan has entered into a deal with Power Corp.

Not only is this an impressive deal, but a major New York financial newspaper believes the price that the Canadian company is paying for the Putman is actually more than most guessed it would be sold for. This could not happen a moment too soon for the people who have invested in Marsh and McLennan stock as their investments have taken a hit in the recent times.

Still, even though the two companies have entered into the deal, it has to be approved by Putnam employees that posses shares in the company as many of our debt free news article reader would have imagined.

See, the mutual fund is managed by these share holding employees there fore and approval is expect that it will be approved. The board of these share holders also must approve.

Now, it is being said that should the deal become approved, we would learn of it within the next month or so.

Here at this debt free site, we do know that Marsh and McLennan put Putnam (its money manager) up for sale about 3 months ago. In the beginning of December, the company’s chief executive stated that he would figure out whether to sell the investment before too long into the next year, so we are a bit taken that things are moving so quickly and at such a good price.

In fact, in November, one major New York financial newspaper said that would be interested parties in purchasing the investment included several companies other than Power itself. These were companies from all over the globe.

Even though the deal is in its infancy, we believe it will continue to go through th emotions without much delay or change. Should you be one of our debt free article readers that has involvement with this investment – you will want to be as informed as you can and we also recommend that you visit Power’s website for more news regarding this deal. As of press time here at this debt free site, no comments are being offered up by Marsh and McLennan yet.

But what we do know as well is that Power posses the controlling interest in a few big companies associated with it – again, be sure to visit the company’s site on the Net for these details as well.

It is always fascinating to learn about these large company investments – it makes debt free readers understand that there are huge decisions to be made when it comes to investing and not just investing there money either.

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