ANZ settles on sale terms for pensions and investments arm
ANZ has updated the market on progress towards the sale of its former OnePath pensions and investments business, and its aligned dealer groups, to IOOF. This follows on from a move first announced in October 2017.In a further announcement yesterday, ANZ stated it had entered into a non-binding agreement to transfer a partial economic interest of the business and the legal ownership of its aligned dealer groups to IOOF from 1 October 2018. When the deal was first unveiled, the P&I business had A$48 billion funds under management and the various ADG operations had over 700 advisers and almost $20 billion in funds under advice,In the first phase, ANZ will receive an initial payment of $800 million from IOOF, equivalent to approximately 82 per cent of the economic interest in ANZ's P&I business, in line with the sale price of $975 million, flagged last year.According to the statement from ANZ, there will be no capital benefit available until final completion of the remaining P&I businesses "expected towards the end of the first half of 2019".As part of the agreement, first announced a year ago, ANZ will also enter into a 20-year strategic alliance to make available IOOF superannuation and investment products to ANZ customers.ANZ continues to explore ways to offload other non-core businesses.