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Aon creates new financial division

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
Aon Risk Solutions has integrated its four existing financial businesses into an expanded segment called Financial Specialties. Aon M&A Solutions, Environmental Services Group, Trade Credit and Surety, and Financial Services Group will now be part of ...

Equity returns hinge on corporate spending

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014

BT Wrap adds Pengana Asia Special Events Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
The BT Wrap platform has added Pengana's Asia Special Events Fund to its investment offering and it is available to advisers and their clients. The fund invests on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, capital management initiatives ...

Financial Index offers $130m for Centric Wealth

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Financial Index Wealth Accountants (FIWA) has entered into an agreement to purchase advisory firm Centric Wealth, in a move that will create one of Australia's largest financial advisory businesses not owned by a mainstream institution, with more than ...

Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
The government will not proceed with Labor's plan to grant tax concessions to retirement income derived from deferred lifetime annuities (DLAs). Under Labor's proposed legislation announced as part of the 2013-14 budget, DLA earnings would have received ...

One-stop-shop firms surge to gain scale against big instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... firstly partnered in a joint venture with Shearer + Ellis. "As we worked more and more together, we realised that we could merge." Finding the right match is essential and businesses should start by making sure they "fit the family picture" and have ...

AUI investors approve property fund merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
Investors in Australian Unity Investments' (AUI) Fifth Commercial Trust (FCT) have approved the merger with AUI's Office Property Fund (OPF). The decision will result in a $370 million property fund which holds office properties in New South Wales ...

Industry and retail fund mergers on the cards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
As the pressure on superannuation funds to merge increases, large industry funds may start looking to retail funds for merger opportunities, according to DST Global Solutions head of business development Rhys Octigan. Octigan said that technological ...

RFM tangled up on wine, chicken and almond saga

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... some of the statements we have made are not true," the company said in a public apology and retraction. RFM is intending to merge its Chicken Income Fund (CIF), the RiverBank Fund (almonds) and the Australian Wine Fund into a single ASX-listed fund that ...

TWUSUPER CEO resigns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
TWUSUPER chief executive Debora Jackson has resigned from her position after less than a year in the role. TWUSUPER chair David Galbally said Jackson's resignation was for "personal reasons" and will take effect immediately. "The board thanks Debora ...