ACQUISITION

Financial planning

Count Financial’s acquisition strategy shows no signs of slowing down, as the company’s equity firm acquires a $1.4 million stake in a Gold Coast accounting business....

Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance has reported a 63 per cent NPAT growth for 1H24 and is looking to its existing licensee network to enact their own acquisitions as they look for succ...

Financial planning

Count has made its latest acquisition of a company that provides offshore services for advisers out of India, continuing the expansion of its services segment....

Financial planning

Advisory and asset management group Prime Financial has announced it will acquire a fund management platform and its two funds as it seeks to launch a diversified alterna...

Financial planning

Sequoia is seeking $3.5 million in damages from Tim McGowen, following the acquisition of Informed Investor in April 2022. ...

Financial planning

Critique Private Clients, a Sydney-based advisory business, has switched from an Insignia-owned licensee to Count’s Australian financial services licence network....

Financial planning

Sequoia has made a $2 million acquisition as it expands its product offering to deliver professional services to advisers....

Funds management

Having ended its acquisition plan last week, the co-chair of Pacific Current Group’s independent board committee is to depart as the firm seeks alternative ways to boost ...

Financial planning

Fund manager DMX Asset Management is backing three different financial advice licensees in its Australian Equities fund as it expects an easing of industry headwinds will...

Financial planning

Two firms have joined forces to acquire Australian Unity’s financial advice business, which includes 18 advisers alongside its corporate superannuation services business....

Funds management

PM Capital has agreed to an acquisition by Regal Partners for an upfront consideration of $20 million as founder and chief investment officer, Paul Moore, seeks to focus ...

Financial planning

AZ NGA has acquired an outsourced HR company, the latest step in its horizontal integration strategy to be involved in each component of the adviser supply chain. ...

Financial planning

Diverger has confirmed a rival bidder has put forward a competing proposal for acquisition, though Count continues to be the frontrunner in the eyes of the board. ...

Financial planning

AZ Next Generation Advisory is to acquire a stake in The Wealth Designers as the Perth advice business seeks to have an office in every Australian capital city. ...

Financial planning

Advice Intelligence, which went into voluntary administration in May, has been acquired by a global wealth management fintech firm....

 

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