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Snowball rolls up three advice practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... diversify." McDonald said the acquisition approach was not the only the way to expand a financial planning business. "Purchasing practices is certainly not the only way to grow. It's tough to get good advisers but we have a strong planning career model ...

Yellow Brick Road leads to Calliva

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Advice and investment management company, Yellow Brick Road, has begun its spending spree purchasing financial planning firm Calliva Wealth. Sean Aylmer, head of communications and research at Yellow Brick Road, said the company has spent the last six ...

English FX specialist turns local

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... efficient method," said Scott Collins, general manager of Australia for Caxton FX. Financial planners who have clients purchasing shares from overseas will be part of Caxton's target market. The company charges zero commission fees, and believes that ...

Women priced out of life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
More than two in five women with dependents have no life insurance because many perceive purchasing life insurance to be a costly, time-consuming exercise, according to an Allianz report. Meredith Barnes, national development manager, said women either ...

CFS buys music copyright assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... Works, a fund that will be launched later this year, will become one of the world's largest music catalogue owners after purchasing contemporary music company Wind-up Entertainment. The Wind-Up Entertainment catalogue features soundtracks to Daredevil ...

Super funds to invest direct into infrastructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... invest directly into many of these areas," he said. Some funds have already taken the lead, with Sunsuper recently purchasing Colonial First State Private Capital (CFI) infrastructure fund for $116 million, following from other funds who put money into ...

Centric buys PKF

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Centric Wealth has made its final pre-listing acquisition, purchasing planner group PKF Financial Services. The company conducts PKF's financial planning business in Sydney and Brisbane and has approximately $400 million in assets under advice across ...

Planners move from vanilla to neapolitan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
An increasing trend for planning groups to add services continues to emerge with ING's Millenium3 purchasing Mawson Group and Lachlan Wealth Management's PMG Group purchasing accountancy business Smith, Peacock and Henshaw (SPH). ING can already draw ...

Canada next on PIS list

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... the advisory practices in Canada they are not taking equity positions but simply providing support. "The problem with purchasing equity in the practice is it then ties the practice to the company and its products and many accounts quite rightly will ...

Westpac ends senior IT exec hunt

... Westpac's general manager, banking operations. While at the bank, she oversaw back office functions and was involved in purchasing, property and retail support, including operations and technology. She also played a lead role in the post-merger integrations ...