MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Financial planning

IOOF Holdings has acquired a minority stake in boutique financial advice firm Patron Financial Advice....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has suspended the trading of shares in Tower Australia Group now that the scheme of arrangement between Tower and its shareholder...

Financial planning

Perth-based wealth management group Plan B has expanded its presence in the eastern states with the acquisition of a 33 per cent stake in Queensland-based dealer group My...

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People & Products

Former CBA national head of financial planning, Ian Anderson, has moved to Guardian Financial Planning, where he has been appointed business acquisition manager....

Financial planning

Tower shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a takeover by Japanese insurer Dai-Ichi Life....

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Financial planning

Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has signed a heads of agreement with Nine Entertainment that YBR says will catapult it into the position of non-bank leader in the financial servi...

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Financial planning

Professional Investment Holdings will soon join the likes of competitors Count Financial and WHK, becoming a listed entity via its merger with Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial planning

Professional Investment Holdings (PIH), the parent company of one of Australia’s largest non-institutionally owned dealer groups, has removed one of the final obsta...

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Financial planning

Some independent advisers seeking to acquire other small planning practices are getting into debt without determining whether their practice can actually afford the repay...

Financial planning

There’s one week until the vote on the proposed merger between Professional Investment Holdings (PIH) and listed company Centrepoint Alliance, but it remains unclea...

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Financial planning

A potential buy-out of Peter Daly's Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) has collapsed at the final stages....

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Financial planning

Listed dealer group Snowball has undertaken an $18 million share placement to pay for its new platform arrangements and prepare for acquisition opportunities in a consoli...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank has declined to act on a 20 per cent share option it held over the parent company of Professional Investment Services, but the existing relationsh...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank is staying quiet on what it intends to do with the share option it holds over 20 per cent of one of Australia’s biggest dealer groups, Profe...

Financial planning

AMP chief executive Craig Dunn has warned against what he sees will be permanent damage to competition in the wealth management market if National Australia Bank’s ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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