Added on October 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Take a quick look at the financial headlines on any given day. It’s hard not to get the impression that large, multinational companies are the engines that makes the U.S. economy go. It’s easy to understand why. After all, the likes of Apple, Amazon and Microsoft generate billions in revenue and are common holdings for investors, so it’s only natural that the media would shower firms such as these with outsized attention.
Added on October 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: It’s hard to believe that it’s been 5 years since we launched RIA Match. Our last blog focused on the importance of ‘Being Curious’ – a key trait we found among our most active and successful subscribers. In this blog, we focus on our own curiosity themes that we’ve seen between the buyer and seller relationship over the past 5 years and some key takeaways:
Added on October 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: As operational and technology consultants, we are contacted at least three times per month from larger RIAs saying, “A friend of mine just bought a $100 million practice – I want to do that too!” This is a common response from aspiring buyers as the industry is beginning to consolidate based on advisor demographics and the potential for literally trillions of dollars in AUM to be up for grabs is putting stars in everyone’s eyes.
Added on October 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Anyone working in the advisory space hears a lot about mergers and acquisitions, or M&As, these days. Pointing to an aging advisor population, emerging competition from automated online platforms, so-called robos and cumbersome regulation—commentators are predicting a continued surge in mergers among advisors. So far, the data does seem to bear out this trend, as savvy advisors looking to expand their business are finding firm managers ready to exit the business.
Added on October 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: A rising number of Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firms are turning to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a way to sustain their business momentum in a period of slowing growth and rapid consolidation. Such deals are not small, either. Case in point: advisors anticipate that M&A deals they plan to strike in the next five years will increase the size of their firms by 37%, according to a recent InvestmentNews study.
