The wealth giant confirmed on Thursday that it will sell the business to Macquarie Asset Management for a consideration of up to $185 million.
Under the agreement, AMP Capital’s capabilities in Australian and global listed equities and global fixed income will be combined with Macquarie’s public investments platform.
The sale is considered by AMP as an important step in preparing the business for its planned demerger from AMP Limited in 1H 2022.
“In bringing together two well-known Australian investment businesses with strong track records, we’re pleased to deliver such a positive outcome for our clients, our GEFI teams and AMP shareholders,” AMP acting chief executive, James Georgeson, said.
“Our review of the GEFI business last year showed it had strong investment capabilities and performance but needed greater scale and broader distribution reach to compete effectively.
“Macquarie is a high quality and respected manager, with a complementary culture and capabilities, well-placed to develop the business and deliver continued strong investment performance for its expanded client base.
“We are committed to working with Macquarie to integrate and transition our clients and teams, and to explore new partnership opportunities to enhance the products and services we both provide to our clients.”
Macquarie Asset Manager head Ben Way said the transaction is “another opportunity to add high-quality, complementary capabilities as we continue to scale the MAM public investments platform”.
“It cements Macquarie’s position as the leading investment manager in Australia by AuM and allows us to further diversify our client offering and bring new opportunities to clients joining us from AMP Capital,” Mr Way said.
“Clients will be at the centre of our considerations as we work closely with AMP on a successful integration.”
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022.
Cash flow is definitely low. An empty new building in Sydney’s CBD during a lockdown and plenty of redundancy payments to make to staff – both of these things are not cheap.
Plus a new executive team who no doubt would want their turn to rake in the cash and bonuses.
Talking about fees for no service… recent leaders have been a case of bonuses for no delivery…
Having just spent about $196M on a share buy back (see the ASX Announcement), this GEFI transaction replenishes their cash – one might think.
jeez, I wonder if Macquarie reviewed this release and the complementary culture statement, couldn’t be further from the truth could it?
I burst out laughing when I read about “complementary cultures”. Thank God I wasn’t drinking something at the time.
Could someone explain if this affects us financial advisers in any way, good or bad?
I don’t think any one in the industry cares how change affects financial advisers (except financial advisers).
I tend to agree, no one who matter ms cares.