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State Street acquires GE Asset Management

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
State Street Corporation has agreed to acquire GE Asset Management from GE for a total purchase price of up to $485 million. The acquisition is expected to increase State Street Global Advisor's (SSGA) assets under management by approximately $100 billion ...

YBR acquires News Corp platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
Yellow Brick Road has acquired News Corp's consumer-direct investment service brightday, which runs on the OneVue platform. YBR's statement said the acquisition forms part of its digital plans which included the release of robo-advice tool Guru in 2015. ...

AZ NGA acquires third CBA practice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
AZ Next Generation Advisory has acquired its third CBA-aligned practice. Wealthwise was established in 1986 by Jamie and Sheila Luxton, has $380 million in funds under advice and employs 32 staff, including 14 advisers, six paraplanners and nine client ...

AZ NGA acquires second RI Advice practice

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
AZ Next Generation Advisory has acquired its eighth financial advice practice, the second from the RI Advice Group. AZ NGA's latest acquisition is Empowered Financial Partners, established in 1994 as Williamstown Financial Services and manages $134 ...

AZ NGA acquires seventh practice

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
AZ Next Generation Advisory has made its seventh acquisition, purchasing a Toowoomba-based practice. Part of the RI Advice Group, RI Toowoomba was established in 1992 and has $260 million in funds under advice. As with AZ NGA's previous acquisition ...

Perpetual acquires private wealth firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
Perpetual has acquired a wealth management firm specialised in serving professionals in the medical field. The acquisition involves Fintuition and all of its related brands, including The Private Practice and Skinner Macarounas. It follows a strategic ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires 49% stake in GE business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Whitehelm Capital has acquired a 49.9% stake in General Electric Energy Financial Services' Worsley Multi-Fuel Cogeneration (Worsley Cogen) power plant. Worsley Cogen is valued at $1.2 billion and GE will retain a 50.1% stake in the business. It generates ...

Australian Unity acquires three new practices

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has acquired three new adviser practices. This brings the total number of practices under the Australian Unity brand to 102, comprising 185 advisers and 24 mortgage brokers. Australian Unity Personal Financial ...

Northern Trust acquires brokerage firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
Northern Trust has acquired a global institutional equity brokerage firm that also offers market research, trading and execution services. The acquisition of Aviate Global will allow Northern Trust to expand its brokerage capabilities in the Europe ...

AZ NGA acquires sixth practice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
Paul Barrett's AZ Next Generation Advisory has acquired an advice firm operating under the Commonwealth Bank-owned Financial Wisdom licence. Harvest Wealth is AZ NGA's sixth acquisition, following Pride Advice, CBA-aligned practices Eureka Whittaker ...