Added on March 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: AmplifyRIA, a Boston based independent consulting firm, and adviser matching service RIA Match, have teamed to create RIA Match Concierge Consulting (RMCC) -- a new service which combines the technology platform with expert M&A consulting for RIAs that are looking to buy, sell, merge, join or add advisors.
Added on March 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Henley’s popular poem Invictus was a favorite of Nelson Mandela’s and my grandmother. These lines could be the mantra of most advisors whether buyers or sellers. Advisors have grit. This grit is both the source of our success and the essence our vulnerability. As a buyer, your goal is to grow inorganically. You know you have a lot of company. Our advisory world is full of buyers with few sellers to be seen.
Added on March 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: The wealth management industry is awash in robo hype. The mainstream introduction of online, automated investment services, known as robo-advisers, has the financial advisory business riveted. Headlines, shop-talk and strategic planning sessions are dominated by the human-versus-technology debate for current and future clients.
Added on March 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Even though the number of prospective buyers greatly exceeds the number of financial advisory firms on the market, owners often have unrealistic ideas about what their businesses are worth.
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Summary:United Capital Financial Advisers has pulled off the biggest, best-valued deal in its history, but one that may just underscore how little gas the old roll-up model has in its tank. The Newport Beach, Calif.-based ex-roll-up-turned-super-ensemble-RIA last week quasi-recruited, quasi-purchased a 23-person, $2 billion AUM team — a team that lost its chemistry with its community bank owner after a big Spanish bank purchased it.
