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AFS rebuff takeover offers to go it alone

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
Dealer group Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) will remain independent after confirming that it will no longer hold takeover discussions. AFS has said ownership will remain with its advisers and will retain open architecture, practical compliance ...

AFS deal falls, two new prospects emerge

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Dealer group Australian Financial Services' negotiations with a prospective purchaser have fallen apart - but there are two new interested parties, said the group's chief executive, Peter Daly. In what were already quiet negotiation process, the unnamed ...

AFS deal raises Asian opportunities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Dealer group Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) remains mum on the identity of its potential buyer but said the deal could potentially open up its financial planners to clients and products outside Australia, particularly in the broader Asian ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

The best of the best in financial services marketing, sales and business development battled it out in this year's Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards, with the winners announced last night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney. This year's event gave ...

TSG expands dealer group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... dealer group and is in talks with a further 13 practices. Established in 1999, TSG merged with national dealer group Australian Financial Services (AFS) last year and manages more than $700 million in client investments. Under the merger, both dealer ...

Russell adds Plato

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... Investment Group's 130/30 Australian Share Fund has been granted a 15 per cent weighting on Russell Investment Group Australian Opportunities Fund. The Australian Shares 130/30 Fund endeavors to achieve five per cent gross out performance each year over ...

Bridges renews IWL deal

... clients," said Alex Hutchsion, BFS' chief executive officer. BFS is a subsidiary of ASX listed financial services group Australian Wealth Management and has been an IWL client for seven years. Michelle Baltazar

Aust Unity upgrades to Pentafin

Australian Unity Investments, the funds management arm of health, finance and retirement group Australian Unity, is to undergo a major IT upgrade over the next six to nine months and has dropped its previous IT partner for software group Pentafin. Mark ...

Aust Unity integrates and posts solid profit growth

Funds management, health and retirement group Australian Unity has posted a pre-tax profit of $28.2 million for the year ended June 2006, up 42 per cent from $19.8 million in the previous year. The results included the first full year contribution from ...

Profit sharing a win-win for AFS

Advisory group Australian Financial Services (AFS) is growing at a rate of at least 20 practices a year thanks to its highly successful profit sharing model. The Melbourne-based firm has signed up 13 practices since the beginning of the year and AFS ...