Platform and funding supervisor 7IM has acquired Monetary Planning agency Eastcote Wealth Administration for an undisclosed sum.
Eastcote relies in Solihull within the West Midlands.
The deal will convey 12 Monetary Planners and £430m of belongings underneath administration together with 735 shoppers.
Below the phrases of the deal Eastcote will keep its model and unbiased funding proposition.
It can additionally retain its present administration staff led by John Ruddick, David Fleet, Jonathan Hearn, and Robert Kenyon. Founder Trevor Regulation may also proceed in his place as a guide to the agency.
Mr Ruddick stated 7IM’s deal with “long-term partnerships with shoppers” together with its scale and ambition is what attracted them to the agency.
The acquisition is 7IM’s second acquisition since being offered in September by majority proprietor funding belief Caledonia Investments to the Ontario Academics’ Pension Plan Board for £255m.
The agency snapped up £1bn AUM Monetary Planning agency Amicus Wealth in December.
Dean Proctor, CEO of 7IM stated that whereas strategic acquisitions will proceed to be a part of 7IM’s long-term development technique, natural development stays a key pillar of 7IM’s plans.
He stated: “We now have had a presence in London and Edinburgh since our earliest days, however as a part of our dedication to serving to shoppers meet their monetary targets by means of personalised and complete Monetary Planning, we needed to develop our footprint throughout key wealth centres within the UK. Having a base of operations within the Midlands felt like the subsequent pure step, and Eastcote’s presence within the area will assist us broaden our attain to a brand new viewers.
“Whereas Eastcote is the third Monetary Planning agency we have now acquired, 7IM’s strategy to M&A stays unchanged; we solely pursue alternatives the place we see real strategic worth for all events concerned. We stay dedicated to complementing our M&A exercise with sturdy natural development plans to cement 7IM’s place as one of many main vertically built-in wealth managers within the UK.”
7IM was based in 2002 by seven “escapees” from the world of huge company finance who needed to “begin the sort of organisation they’d like to speculate with themselves.”
The corporate has made a number of acquisitions in recent times together with Tcam Asset Administration in 2018 and in 2020 London-based Monetary Planning agency Companions Wealth Administration (PWM).
7IM now has greater than 550 employees in workplaces in London, Solihull and Edinburgh managing greater than £24bn for shoppers, together with people and households, monetary advisers, corporates, charities and trustees.
Its proprietor, the Ontario Academics’ Pension Plan Board, is a world investor with roughly £145bn in internet belongings.