{"id":78665,"date":"2025-08-25T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=78665"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:57:37","slug":"forbes-fava-grows-footprint-with-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/forbes-fava-grows-footprint-with-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Fava Expands Footprint with Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forbesfavafp.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes Fava Financial Planning<\/a> (FFFP) has acquired Melbourne-based financial planning business Financial Planit, a firm founded by accountant <strong>Anthony Buckley<\/strong> in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Financial Planit operates across retirement, superannuation, SMSF, risk insurance and estate planning, is being rebranded as FFSP, and will continue to operate from its Bundoora premises.<\/p>\n<p>Buckley said the key factors in his decision to become part of FFSP was the long-term personal and professional relationship with FFSP GM <strong>Gus Smarrini<\/strong> and the &#8220;aligned values and philosophy between the two firms that facilitated a natural and strategic fit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>FFFP\u2019s Senior Financial Planner and CEO <strong>Cameron Forbes<\/strong> said the acquisition represents a key step in the firm\u2019s plan to expand the group\u2019s presence in the Victorian marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe acquisition of Financial Planit has been the catalyst for a steady stream of enquiries from financial planning practices,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is understandable considering the ongoing industry changes and the benefits of FFSP\u2019s marketplace offer, structure, administrative framework, flexibility and scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78666\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78666\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Gus-Smarrini-Anthony-Buckley-and-Cameron-Forbes.png\" alt=\"Gus Smarrini, Anthony Buckley and Cameron Forbes\" width=\"467\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Gus-Smarrini-Anthony-Buckley-and-Cameron-Forbes.png 467w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Gus-Smarrini-Anthony-Buckley-and-Cameron-Forbes-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Gus-Smarrini-Anthony-Buckley-and-Cameron-Forbes-100x70.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gus Smarrini, Anthony Buckley, and Cameron Forbes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes Fava Financial Planning (FFFP) has acquired Melbourne-based financial planning business Financial Planit, a firm founded by accountant Anthony Buckley in 2004. Financial Planit operates across retirement, superannuation, SMSF, risk insurance and estate planning, is being rebranded as FFSP, and will continue to operate from its Bundoora premises. Buckley said the key factors in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}