Corporate Action - Acquisition of Financial Synergy Provides Modest Fair Value Accretion
Narrow-moat Iress has agreed to acquire Financial Synergy, a privately owned fund administration software provider to the Australian superannuation and wealth-management sector, for up to AUD 90 million in cash. The transaction is subject to commercial arrangements and conditions, and is expected to complete by Oct. 31, 2016. Our fair value estimate increases to AUD 10.70 per share from AUD 10.50. Iress shares currently trade about 11% above our fair value estimate.While this is a relatively sm...
IRESS is engaged in the provision of information, trading, compliance, order management, portfolio and wealth management, and lending systems and related tools. Co.'s main clients are financial markets and wealth management participants in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Canada, South Africa and the U.K. Co. provides solutions to clients using three core platforms: IRESS (market information and trading platform), XPLAN (wealth management and advice platform), and Mortgage Sales and Originations (lending automation and processing platform). Core business activities of Co. are carried out within three main divisions being financial markets, wealth management, and enterprise lending.
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Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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