Focus CEO Points to Pent-Up Demand for RIA M&A Despite record M&A activity in the RIA space, Focus CEO Rudy Adolf says the industry is underconsolidating.
Following a record quarter for RIA M&A activity, Focus Financial Partners said year to date it has added three new partner firms, facilitated three mergers for existing partners and merged two RIAs into its new Connectus Wealth Advisers business, the firm’s in-house RIA with a shared services model.
In the first quarter, Focus closed on its deal to acquire Hill Investment Group, a St. Louis–based RIA with $678 million in client assets. In addition, the firm’s Connectus division acquired U.K.-based Watterson Financial Planning.
Ambulance Victoria to investigate 32-year-old woman’s death with Safer Care Victoria
Ambulance Victoria is investigating the death of a 32-year-old woman who was found dead six-and-a-half hours after she called triple zero. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP
Ambulance Victoria is investigating the death of a 32-year-old woman who was found dead six-and-a-half hours after she called triple zero. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP
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Sat 24 Apr 2021 01.37 EDT
The death of a Melbourne woman is being investigated after she was found in her home six-and-a-half hours after she called triple zero.
Ambulance Victoria has confirmed it is investigating the death of the 32-year-old woman with the support of Safer Care Victoria.
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Melbourne woman dies waiting more than six hours for ambulance
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A 32-year-old woman was found dead in her Caulfield North home 6½ hours after she called triple zero reporting numbness and feeling lightheaded.
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley on Friday asked Ambulance Victoria and Safer Care Victoria to immediately investigate the death, which leading health groups described as a casualty of hospital emergency departments being overwhelmed.
Health Minister Martin Foley.
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Ambulance Union secretary Danny Hill said the incident highlighted the lack of ambulance availability, while the Australian Medical Associationâs emergency medicine specialist, Sarah Whitelaw, said health professionals feared more deaths if health system reforms were not fast-tracked.
Governmentâs insular and retrograde move
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BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
Governmentâs insular and retrograde move
With its anachronistic mentality of the Cold War, the Morrison government has cancelled Victorianâs Belt and Road agreement with the Chinese government, as well as two Victorian government education agreements (The Age, 22/4). Foreign Minister Marise Payneâs declaration they they are âinconsistent with Australiaâs foreign policy or adverse to our foreign relationsâ has soured any hope of a gentle rapprochement with our largest trading partner and a healing of the political rift. Her assertion that China would not retaliate is naive at best.