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New CEO at Board of Taxation

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... and international funds in property, infrastructure, equity and private equity; due diligence; structuring for corporate mergers; reorganisations; takeovers; and acquisitions including cross-border finance arrangements and global loan facilities. She ...

Survey reveals super fund strategic priorities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... priorities. Fresh concerns highlighted in this year's survey which did not feature last year were data analytics, fund mergers or alliances, and the appointment of independent directors. Nine out of 10 chief executives think high level objectives should ...

Legg Mason makes three acquisitions

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
It is expected 2016 will see mergers and acquisitions intensify and global asset manager Legg Mason has already jumped on board, recently making three major announcements. From its Baltimore offices Legg Mason announced it will acquire a majority equity ...

QIC bolsters infrastructure team

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... Eric Belman was most recently managing director, business development at GE Power and Water. Prior to that, he oversaw mergers and acquisitions strategy at United Technologies and PepsiCo. At QIC, he will manage the group's North American infrastructure ...

Advice M&A deals boom after years of stagnation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
Mergers and acquisitions of advice practices are happening at an unprecedented level due to excellent market conditions, according to Forte Asset Management director Steven Prendeville. Speaking at a panel session of the FPA Congress titled 'How to ...

NAB enters into MOU with Nippon Life

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... to buy Japanese life insurer Mitsui Life. This follows the insurance giant announcing its A¥1.5 trillion ($17 billion) mergers and acquisitions budget for the next 10 years earlier in 2015.

More must be done to cut fees: FSC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... into the Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Trustee Governance) Bill 2015 shows that increasing scale in super through mergers and raising competitive tensions would reduce fees. Andrew Bragg, acting chief executive of the FSC said: "On a day of reform ...

Succession planning is not a waiting game

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... undersupply. "The history of the Australian financial service industry is quite literally littered with terrible acquisitions and mergers," he argued. "Prospective buyers of practices need to be patient and not be 'spooked' into making inappropriate ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... reduce overall costs further, Minifie said savings of $300 million would arise from consolidating inactive accounts. Fund mergers would save a further $200 million in MySuper and tougher MySuper qualification would further cut administration and investment ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
Recent high-profile mergers and acquisitions of aligned advisers by independent groups are a sign of a growing trend. In the past three months, former ANZ managing director of advice and distribution Paul Barrett's firm AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ ...