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HUB24 appoints former FSC director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... Jardine Fleming and Pacific Mutual Australia. He co-founded the Snowball Group advice firm in 2000, which became SFG Australia after merging with Shadforth in 2011. Additionally, McDonald is a former director of The Investment Funds Association of Australia ...

Class makes final director appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... Financial Group, a financial and business advisory firm, in 2006. He then took on the role of managing director of SFG Australia from 2011 to 2014, before an acquisition by IOOF in 2014. Previously he was chief executive at Tynan Mackenzie and before ...

IOOF advice firm jumps ship to Fitzpatricks

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... Main Street and chose IOOF-owned Lonsdale as their dealer group. But when IOOF acquired Shadforth parent company SFG Australia in 2014, "it became clear that the acquisition of SFG created more problems than it solved and our position became untenable," ...

ASIC silent on IOOF investigation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Peter Hilton. Hilton was moved away from IOOF's top job in the research department earlier this year. IOOF appointed SFG Australia chief investment officer Matthew Drennan as group head of research. At the time, IOOF said that it was consolidating the ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... the hunt for new opportunities, Kelaher made headlines again in 2014 when he acquired high net worth advice group SFG Australia (SFGA). The operation positioned IOOF as Australia's fourth largest advice business by funds under advice, only after AMP ...

Advice M&A activity set to soar in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... become Australia's largest non-aligned dealer group after acquiring Centric Wealth and Crowe Horwath. IOOF acquired SFG Australia and CUA Financial Planning, Clearview took over Matrix Planning Solutions and Spring Financial bought Pink Diamond Financial ...

SFG acquisition boosts IOOF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
IOOF Holdings has reported a record half year growth, following the acquisition of SFG Australia. Underlying net profit after tax pre-amortisation was $80.6 million for the six months to 31 December 2014, with SFG contributing $16.3 million to the result. ...

IOOF rejigs SFG investment team following buyout

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
IOOF Holdings is consolidating the SFG Australia research and portfolio construction functions, following the acquisition of SFG Australia in August. SFG Australia chief investment officer Matthew Drennan will assume the role of IOOF group head of research ...

IOOF reports record growth

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... organically, then in late May 2014, IOOF announced the acquisition of financial advice and wealth management business, SFG Australia." Kelaher said that while SFG Australia's financial result is not included in this year's result, it is expected that ...

IOOF completes SFGA buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
IOOF has effectively completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares in SFG Australia, following the buyout proposal made public in May. As part of the scheme of arrangement, SFGA shareholders could elect to receive IOOF shares only or a cash alternative ...