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One-stop-shop firms surge to gain scale against big instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
The number of partnerships and mergers between financial planning and accountancy firms is increasing as independent businesses brace to gain scale against the big institutionally-aligned groups. Industry concentration in the past years has strengthened ...

Industry and retail fund mergers on the cards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... name any names. However, Ian Silk, chief executive of Australia's largest industry fund AustralianSuper, said retail fund mergers were not on the horizon for his fund for "a couple of reasons". "The first is that if we were to purchase them, it would ...

Van Eyk appoints acquisitions specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... role of manager of practice acquisitions and recruitment. Vaiente has over 15 years' experience in business development, mergers and acquisitions of financial planning practices and planner recruitment and has held roles with IPAC Securities, ANZ's OnePath ...

FoFA boosts advice business valuation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... quickly." Risk clients, investment clients and even accounting clients can be separately offered to different buyers. However, mergers and acquisitions between financial advice practices have stalled due to uncertainty around the grandfathering provision ...

Accountants on look-out for SMSF-expert advisers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... relationship with that specialist is vital both in terms of client satisfaction and client retention. "With a number of mergers taking place between financial planning and accounting practices across the board, those that don't offer an all-encompassing ...

Chifley Super to merge with Sunsuper

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... 2013. After an extensive review and investigation process which explored possible takeovers of smaller entities as well as mergers with larger industry and retail superannuation funds, Chifley Super said a merger with Sunsuper is in the best interest ...

Global investment banking fees up 3% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... 3% in the first nine months of 2013 from a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters data. Fees from services ranging from mergers and acquisitions advisory to capital markets underwriting, earned investment banks a total of $56.8 billion in the nine-month ...

Platforms hit $445bn record

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013
... Rainmaker survey albeit they said there has been some fragmentation of the advisory group sector due to the reaction to mergers and acquisitions. However, the number of advisers decreased 389 through the year to 17,886, the lowest number in nearly five ...

Accounting and advice practices likely to increase mergers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... changes that allow accountants to provide financial advice under a limited licence are likely to increase the appetite for mergers and acquisitions between accounting and advice practices. "The accounting industry's foray into the planning industry is ...

Kenyon Partners renames to Connect Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... owners and advisers seek to exit the industry and retire. Connect is also confident that advice firms will be outsourcing mergers and acquisitions due to the complexity of this kind of operations.