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Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... All cash up and gone a-buying. Companies have cash a-plenty and are buying each other. Bloomberg reports that, "Global mergers and acquisitions increased to $668.3 billion in the fourth quarter, the highest since the third quarter of 2008, according ...

Shadforth unveils acquisition strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... build on," he said. "Secondly we will be looking at like-minded companies so we will complete a number of acquisitions and mergers with a range of other like-minded firms," said Bedding, adding that the third stage will growing its own client service ...

Transition mgmt takes centre stage

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... announced plans to combine, while Queensland government funds LGsuper and City are also in discussions over a tie-up. But mergers also bring a whole set of administrative and operational headaches to the table, and on the investment front, it gets even ...

ASX lodges defence for SGX pairing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... and real estate investment trusts in Asia. If the deal goes ahead, the ASX-SGX will be the latest in a string of prior mergers and takeovers in the past decade, across various markets. In 2000, Euronext was formed - a result of Amsterdam Stock Exchange ...

Super fund recovery 6pc but big funds fail to fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... ranks is stronger at 30 per cent, but even that is hardly impressive given the rhetoric around scale and the need for mergers, added Rainmaker. Reinfoircing the scale conversion challenge facing big funds, Rainmaker found that over five years, seven ...

PIH planners vote yes to merger, future uncertain

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... said he anticipated PIH could lose advisers as part of the process. "I expect like most dealer groups [which go through mergers] in Australia, we'll lose people," he said. "We have a reasonable amount of turnover in the last couple of years... the 12 ...

M&A activity to decline: report

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... Ernst & Young capital confidence barometer found that while capital markets did improve, figures indicate a decline in mergers and acquisitions for the next six months. The survey respondents, of which the majority were from the financial services sector ...

Centric Wealth gears up for acquisitions

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... in the last five months, with more planners keen to join the group, thanks to big league M&As bubbling in the market. Mergers such as AMP and AXA's present rare opportunities to non-bank aligned financial planning dealer groups to beef up their acquisitions ...

Former RetireInvest MD moves to Centric Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... stakeholders," said Dunger. John Hart, who occupied the role of national head of financial planning, has moved into head of mergers, acquisitions and growth for the non-institutionally owned wealth advisory firm. Centric Wealth has $4.9 billion in assets ...

A simpler, streamlined Suncorp

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... life (including superannuation and wealth management). "Our current corporate structure is the consequence of the major mergers and acquisitions taken under the past 14 years. It is complex, unwieldy and does not reflect our current business model or ...