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Real deals: Achieving purposeful growth with purposeful transactions

Added on November 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Download a Pershing whitepaper on RIA-related mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is heating up again. In a turnabout from years past, RIA owners are spearheading the resurgence

The M&A Uptick Is a Symptom of Growth, Not a Driver

Added on November 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: The push by more owners to tackle succession planning, along with an aging workforce — not to mention six-plus years of rising financial markets — is driving a surge in mergers and acquisitions in the financial-advice industry.

RIA Buyers and Sellers Are Growing Wiser

Added on November 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Do you wish to strike a deal for your firm? What sort of deal is best for you? Do you know your firm's value? Some people still believe that firm valuation centers on gross revenues. I recently participated in the annual Deals and Deal Makers Summit, hosted by Echelon Partners, where I learned that such a simplistic formula ignores market and economic reality. Advisory firms today have access to multiple ways of achieving liquidity, buying a stake in the business and obtaining financing for growth.

RIAs Increasingly Return Customers to M&A Buffet

Added on October 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Inorganic growth is becoming an increasingly fundamental business strategy for many registered investment advisory firms, to the point where many established advisor practices are now becoming experienced buyers engaging in multiple deals.

Want Your Sale, Acquisition or Merger to Close? Reasonableness is the Key

Added on October 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: In today’s M&A rich environment, every advisory firm and financial advisor wants to get in on the action. Unfortunately, though, most would-be buyers and sellers come up empty. Why? Because of unreasonable expectations.

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