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Snowball chief announces exit plans

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
Tony McDonald, chief executive of transitioning planning firm Snowball Financial Group, will leave the company in 12 months but not before spending the year in a new role where he will ready the merged group for industry reforms. The move is part of ...

Snowball reports 3pc rise in profits following Shadforth merger

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
Financial advisory group Snowball has reported a 3% rise in profit to $26.9 million in its first combined results announcement following the completion of its merger with Shadforth. The two non-aligned groups formed a combined wealth management business ...

Snowball launches advice centre of excellence

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
Snowball Financial Group has launched a Best Advice Centre of Excellence, a collection of some of the advice industry's leading minds to hash out ideas and new ways to improve the delivery of advice. The project is part of Snowball's Project Best Advice ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... Murdoch's News Corp lost another 7.6 per cent as the scandal over the now-closed News of the World tabloid continued to snowball. The shares were off 14.3 per cent over the last five days, and Monday's fall came after there were new doubts about the ...

Insurers face up to harsh environment

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... reinforced the importance of investing in a comprehensive reinsurance program to protect the balance sheet," said Patrick Snowball, chief executive officer, Suncorp Group. "The program we have placed is broadly similar to last year's in terms of the ...

Snowball Shadforth planning for a FOFA future

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
The merged entity of planning groups Snowball and Shadforth will be FOFA equipped and ready. Shadforth shareholders have made it official this week and accepted the Snowball offer, with over 90% of votes in favour of the merger. The two non-aligned ...

Merged planning groups plot Snowball effect

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Snowball Group and Shadforth Financial Group are driving the consolidation agenda with their merger which came about largely thanks to the matchmaking skills of financial planning industry stalwart John Godfrey. The two non-aligned financial advice ...

Snowball expands 'segmented advice'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
Snowball Group marks 2011 as another year of providing more services in the area of 'segmented advice' after posting a healthy increase in its half-year profits. Tony McDonald, managing director of Snowball, said the group is performing well as it prepares ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... Ltd, Lend Lease Group, ConnectEast Group, and Macquarie Radio. In Brisbane, Suncorp Group Ltd chief executive Patrick Snowball addresses the British Chamber of Commerce in Australia. On Wednesday, the Australian share market was flat with investors taking ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... whether the reforms were a big enough issue for any of them to cross the floor over. Tony McDonald, managing director of Snowball Group, told advisers that they could not afford to "to sit on the sidelines" anymore and resist change. "FOFA is happening ...