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Count buys DKN stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Count Financial has bought a five per cent stake in financial services solutions provider, DKN Financial Group, as financial planning groups continue their buying spree. The purchase, worth over $5 million in ordinary shares, means Zurich Financial ...

Ascalon buys more stake in H3

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Ascalon Capital Managers has acquired another 15 per cent in absolute return fund manager H3 Global Advisors, increasing its overall equity position to 45 per cent. Terms were not disclosed. "This further increase in our equity stake reflects our confidence ...

Macquarie in talks with Charter Hall

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... estate platform, or all of it. "And there's the third angle... that this could be a reverse takeover, [and] Charter Hall buys into the Macquarie platform - giving it a tremendous amount of scale from a distribution perspective as well as trying to grow ...

Westpac unveils new trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... settlement options. It has the ability to settle any Australian bank account or investors' margin loans, and allows offset buys and sells over different trading days. Staltari said the launch of the new platform and a targeted marketing campaign is expected ...

DKN buys BMG stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
DKN Financial Group has bought a 32 per cent stake in BMG Partners and BMG Financial Planning, a long-term Lonsdale Financial Group associate. This is the first equity investment made by DKN in a Lonsdale practice since the merger of DKN and Lonsdale ...

T. Rowe Price buys $19.7 bn Indian manager

COMPANY RELEAE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
T. Rowe Price Group has bought a 26 per cent stake in India's fourth largest asset manager, UTI Asset Management, for more than $157 million. The deal, which also includes the UTI Trustee Company, was completed after T. Rowe Price bought a 6.5 per cent ...

Netwealth buys $700m FUA planning firm Bridgeport

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Platform and financial services provider, netwealth, has bought national dealer group, Bridgeport Financial Services - marking the company's foray into owning planning practices directly. Bridgeport has offices in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra ...

Snowball forays into funds management

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
Listed financial planning group Snowball buys a portfolio construction and funds management business, Officium Capital, as part of its umbrella strategy to prepare the business ahead of new regulation in the planning industry. Snowball Group has bought ...

J.P. Morgan buys $99bn ANZ custody services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
J.P. Morgan's Worldwide Securities Services division has bought ANZ's Custodian Services business - a move that raises the group's assets under custody by another 36 per cent to $370 billion and gives J.P. Morgan an entry into the local sub-custody ...

Hillross buys Rabo Financial Advisors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Hillross Financial Services has bought Rabobank Australia & New Zealand's Rabo Financial Advisors, in a deal that sees the bank's financial planning arm move to the Hillross brand in just a few weeks. Rabo Financial Advisors represents 40 staff including ...