Deal Dive: What Q3 had in store

Your regular IFA M&A round-up

Isabel Baxter
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Welcome to the latest edition of PA’s Deal Dive, your quarterly advice merger and acquisition (M&A) round-up. We dig into deal trends and drivers in this regular series.

Who's buying? The Penny Group was in the M&A headlines once again in Q3, this time snapping up Kettering-based advice firm Isham Financial Centre. Regular consolidation player Perspective also announced five more completed deals in August, bringing its total number of acquisitions to 121. The five firms were: Lifestyle Financial Services, Sirius Money Management, Mat White Financial Services, Sapient Wealth Management and Bayham Wealth. Finli group also ramped up its acquisition momentum, as it snapped up nine more financial advice firms last quarter. It acquired Accomplish Wealth M...

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