This morning Amundi and UniCredit confirmed that Amundi will buy Pioneer Investments [profile] for 3.545 billion euros ($3.76 billion), plus a 315-million euro ($334.18 million) "extraordinary dividend" that Pioneer will pay to UniCredit before the deal closes in the first half of next year.
[See MFWire's living timeline of the Pioneer auction for more details and history.]

Jean-Pierre Mustier UniCredit CEO

Here's a round up of some of the coverage so far of the official deal:

• Bloomberg, "Amundi Agrees to Buy UniCredit's Pioneer for $3.7 Billion"



• The Boston Globe, "French firm Amundi buys Boston's Pioneer Investments for $3.7 billion"



• The Financial Times, "UniCredit seals 3.5bn euro Pioneer deal with Amundi"



• The Irish Times, "France's Amundi to buy Pioneer from UniCredit for 3.6bn euros"



• MarketWatch, "UniCredit seals $4 billion sale of unit to Amundi"



• Pensions & Investments, "Amundi to acquire Pioneer Investments"



• Reuters, "France's Amundi to buy Pioneer from UniCredit for 3.6 billion euros"



• TheStreet, "UniCredit Agrees $3.75 Billion Sale of Pioneer Asset Management to Amundi";



• The Telegraph, "Italian bank UniCredit shores up position with 2.9bn pound Pioneer deal"; and



• The Wall Street Journal, "UniCredit Said to Be Selling Pioneer to Amundi for More Than 4 Billion Euros".

 

Edited by: Neil Anderson, Managing Editor


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