{"id":51578,"date":"2006-05-15T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/15\/consolidation-hitting-brokers-and-researchers\/"},"modified":"2006-05-15T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T23:30:04","slug":"consolidation-hitting-brokers-and-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/15\/consolidation-hitting-brokers-and-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolidation Hitting Brokers And Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" \/>\n<p>IWL (IWL) and E*trade Australia (ETR) may have ended their merger talks without tangible results, but the predicted consolidation\u00a0of the online broking industry is still moving on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" \/>\n<p>Trade magazine for the banking sector The Sheet reports this morning that ANZ (ANZ) subsidiary ANZ National has agreed to buy New Zealand&#8217;s Direct Broking service from financial service provider Dorchester Pacific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" \/>\n<p>According to The Sheet, Direct Broking represents a seven percent market share in equities trading on the other side of the Tasman Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" \/>\n<p>In addition, press speculation has it that specialised fund management researcher Morningstar is about to announce it has bought Australia&#8217;s leading independent equity researcher and fledgling financial media company Aspect Huntley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" \/>\n<p>To be continued, no doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The predicted consolidation of the online broking industry seems to be gathering pace. And what about Morningstar buying Aspect Huntley?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}