MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

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 ...

Financial planning

Macquarie Group has hinted at market caution following the publication of its June 2010 quarter results....

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Financial planning

Incoming Count Financial chief Andrew Gale will continue the group's acquisitions drive in 2010, while also reassessing Count's stake in competitor DKN Financial Group....

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Financial planning

Ed Psaltis explains why there is an increasing appetite for full disclosure of real estate investment trust gearing levels....

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Superannuation

The superannuation sector has been hit hard in recent years as funds suffered greatly at the hands of market volatility. Angela Faherty takes a look at what the future ho...

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Financial planning

With the global financial crisis driving smaller lenders and mortgage brokers out of the market, Chris Kennedy finds the mortgage market is headed for a transitional year...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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