E-Shares fails in bid to enter financial planning

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20 June 2002
| By George Liondis |

Onlineshare trading group E-Shares has had its plans to push into the financial planning market thwarted after its agreement to purchase Norgard Clohessy Financial Planners (NCFP) was abandoned.

The two groups terminated the agreement last month after they did not see eye to eye on terms to meet the conditions of the sale.

In February, E-Shares agreed to pay $5.5 million in cash and 18.3 million in shares for the Perth-based planning group.

NCFP in turn entered into agreements to purchase two financial planning practices and an accounting practice in Melbourne, and a further financial planning practice in Perth.

NCFP managing director Patrick Canion has confirmed the group will push ahead with its planned acquisition of the four practices. Canion says the group will look for alternative sources of capital to fund the acquisitions in the wake of the failed agreement with E-Shares.

Neither E-Shares or NCFP was willing to comment on the specific reasons behind the breakdown of negotiations.

E-Shares managing director David Breeze says the group will now look to pursue other investment opportunities in the financial services industry.

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