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An Advisor's Guide to M&A: How To Avoid Buyer's Remorse

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.

Keys to M&A Success: Making a deal that makes more than business sense

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.

Keys to M&A Success: Making a deal that makes more than business sense

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

RIA sellers are leaving 'tons of money on the table'

Added on September 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Buyers are setting the deal terms and RIA sellers are "leaving tons of money on the table," says Seivert, speaking at the annual Deals & Deal Makers Summit hosted by Echelon.

Finding the Right Match When Selling Your Firm: A Checklist

Added on September 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: “There are no shortages of opportunity to sell a financial advisory business,” says Matt Matrisian, senior vice president of Strategic Initiative sat AssetMark, which provides investment, relationship and practice management for those firms.

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