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West takes east-coast planners

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
West Australian wealth management firm Plan B has begun a friendly takeover of financial planning dealership My Adviser, opening the door to a large network of eastern state advisory businesses. The My Adviser network has 54 advisory firms with 122 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market opened lower after world equity markets slumped as investors worried about higher oil prices due to violent unrest in Libya. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.5 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4822.4 ...

SelectingSuper celebrates top 2010 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Asgard, CareSuper and Telstra Super were among the winners at this year's SelectingSuper Awards, which recognises Australia's top superannuation funds. This morning's SelectingSuper Awards in Melbourne, which featured TEN Network veteran sports journalist ...

Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... dragged down along with Dubai. But just in case Abu Dhabi decides that Dubai is not too big to fail after all, Dubai has a plan B. It unveiled a new "reorganisation (read, bankruptcy) law" based on international standards in the event that Dubai's negotiations ...

Members vote for Lifeplan/Aus Unity merger

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
Lifeplan members have yesterday approved the proposal to merge with Australian Unity. Over 98 percent of the members' vote was in favour of the merger. Lifeplan will now seek final regulatory and court approvals for the merger. The merged company will ...

Merger plans for AUI and Lifeplan

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
The $5.5 billion Australian Unity is planning to merge with Lifeplan Funds Management - a deal that would create a funds management group with more than $7 billion in funds under management. Australian Unity announced late last week that a merger proposal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to rise after US stocks surged on the government's plan to help banks remove bad assets from their books and a report that showed existing home sales rose in the US. At 0736 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Plan B buys Strategic

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Australian Securities Exchange-listed Plan B Group has acquired a 62 per cent stake in boutique advisory firm, Strategic Financial Management. Plan B's acquisition of Strategic will see it control a 62 per cent interest in the Melbourne-based company ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... write them off eventually -- wasting taxpayers' money in the process. But surely the geniuses on Capitol Hill would have a Plan B for the bad bank to work. And for equity markets, at least for today, it may be enough to see their government working stridently ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was a sea of red at noon with the materials sector leading the losses after a negative US lead and reports that the economies of Australia's three most important export destinations are softening. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...