Quick-expanding wealth supervisor and Monetary Planner Titan Wealth is reported to be placing collectively a deal to take over rival personal Monetary Planning agency Impartial Wealth Planners (IWP), which has £6bn AUM.
Based on a report in commerce publication New Mannequin Adviser, two trade sources have claimed a deal is being mentioned.
Titan Wealth, whose founders had been additionally a part of the founding workforce at IWP, advised Monetary Planning At present: “We don’t touch upon hypothesis.”
IWP has additionally been contacted by Monetary Planning At present for touch upon the story however has but to reply.
IWP, which was arrange in 2019, has been rumoured to be up on the market for a while.
IWP was very acquisitive, finishing about 30 IFA offers, till founder and chair David Inglesfield unexpectedly stepped down on the finish of December 2022.
The agency’s final acquisition was in August 2022 when it acquired female-led Monetary Planning agency Holistic Monetary Management, including £252m in belongings to IWP.
By then the group was comprised of 32 IFA companies, and its web site says it now has 450 workers and greater than £6bn in belongings beneath administration and recommendation.
However it reportedly has a debt pile of round £100m with its main creditor Ares Administration additionally one of many personal fairness traders behind Titan Wealth.
Based on Firms Home information, six of its administrators have resigned this yr, together with Jonathan Sales space, Anthony Dunne, Robert King, Neil Padget in February, and Tony Spain and Alexander Hambro in January. Earlier than that Les Cantley resigned in September 2023 and Simon Walker in March 2023.
Titan Wealth was co-founded in 2022 by Andrew Fearon, a founder shareholder and director of IWP the place he was chargeable for M&A earlier than leaving for Titan. His co-founder James Kaberry was additionally one of many unique administrators of IWP.
Below their management Titan has been very busy within the acquisition market, concentrating on £50bn in belongings beneath administration over the subsequent three to 5 years and belongings beneath administration of £40bn.
Earlier this month it accomplished two offers, the acquisition of Norwich-based Monetary Planning agency Loveday & Companions which has round £600m of AUM and Bristol-based 45-adviser agency Aspira, which had £4bn in AUM. The price of the 2 acquisitions was not disclosed.
In March it accomplished its acquisition of North Japanese IFA Prism Monetary Recommendation, including £630m in belongings beneath administration. Final November it acquired £4bn AUM Bristol Monetary Planner Aspira Company Options Restricted for an undisclosed sum.
In October the agency acquired North East IFA Prism Monetary Recommendation, including £630m in AUM to its books. In June it acquired funding analysis and consultancy agency Sq. Mile for an undisclosed sum.
Earlier within the yr Titan acquired the UK funding administration arm of funding companies supplier Ravenscroft for an undisclosed sum and in January it acquired Chartered Monetary Planning agency Telford Mann for an undisclosed sum.
Titan is backed by Parthenon Capital Companions in addition to Ares Administration.
