Acquiror | Acquired or
Target Company | Type of Transaction
and Status |
State Street Corporation, a provider of financial services to institutional investors with $2 trillion AUM | GE Asset Management, manager of General Electric Company’s U.S. pension and benefit plans | Acquisition for $485 million (pending) |
Union Bank & Trust, a subsidiary of Richmond, Virginia-based Union Bankshares Corporation | Old Dominion Capital Management, Inc., a registered investmentadviser with nearly $300 million AUM | Acquisition (pending)
(terms not disclosed) |
Mesirow Financial, a financial services firm based in Chicago | Fiduciary Management Associates, LLC, a small- and mid-cap value equity money manager with $1.7 billion AUM | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
Huatai Securities, a China-based securities group that provides wealth management, investment banking and asset management services, with a market capitalization of approx. $18.5 billion | AssetMark Inc., a provider of investment and consulting solutions to financial advisors, with over $29.3 billion in assets | Acquisition for $780 million |
D.A. Davidson & Co., a full service investment firm offering equity and fixed income capital markets services and advice | SMITH HAYES Companies, a financial services holding company with approx. $4 billion AUM and AUA that provides asset management services to institutions, wealth management services to individuals, and retirement planning and investment banking services to both municipal and corporate clients | Merger |
Pacific Asset Advisors LLC, an investment management firm that offers life-insurance products, annuities, mutual funds and a variety of investment products and services | Cadence Capital Management, a boutique investment firm that manages approx. $4 billion on behalf of institutions, mutual funds and high net worth individuals | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
Tortoise Credit Strategies LLC, a registered investment advisor, and key Bradford & Marzec LLC employees and management | Bradford & Marzec LLC, an investment advisor that manages long-only domestic and global fixed income portfolios for institutional and high net worth individuals | Partial management buyout by key Bradford & Marzec employees and management for 37%, while Tortoise will own the remainder
(terms not disclosed) |
BlackRock, provider of investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional and retail clients, with $4.737 trillion AUM | Bank of America’s asset management business, BofA Global Capital Management | Assignment of investment management responsibilities of approx. $80 billion AUM |
Nuveen Investments Inc., an investment management firm specializing in helping financial advisors with affluent and high-net-worth investors | Incapital LLC’s Unit Investment Trust platform | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
Foresters Financial, a Toronto-based international financial services provider that provides life insurance, savings, retirement and investment solutions to more than three million clients and has assets of approx. CAD $14 billion | Aegon Capital Management Inc., an investment manager, and Aegon Fund Management Inc., a mutual fund manager | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
Angel Oak Capital Advisors, LLC, an investment management firm focusing on opportunities in fixed income, with $5.5 billion AUM | Rainier High Yield Fund, a U.S.-based investment manager offering equity and fixed income strategies | Acquisition (pending)
(terms not disclosed) |
Hennessy Advisors, Inc., a publicly traded investment manager that offers a range of domestic equity, specialty, balanced and fixed income products | The Westport Funds, which currently manage approx. $640 million of assets | Acquisition of assets related to the management of The Westport Funds (pending) (terms not disclosed) |
Columbia Threadneedle Investments, an asset management group with $464 billion AUM | Emerging Global Advisors, a registered investment advisor based in New York with $892 million AUM | Acquisition (pending)
(terms not disclosed) |
Aegon, an international provider of life insurance, pensions and asset management | BlackRock UK’s defined contribution pension business, which has approx. £12 billion of assets and 350,000 customers | Acquisition (pending)
(terms not disclosed) |
John Hancock Financial Network, Inc., a distribution channel of financial services company John Hancock | Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc., a Baltimore-based provider of life insurance, savings and retirement and investment solutions | Acquisition of certain assets of Transamerica
(terms were not disclosed) |
Hartford Funds, a provider of mutual funds and college savings plans | Lattice Strategies, an investment management firm based in San Francisco specializing in strategic beta exchange-traded funds with $215 million AUM | Acquisition (pending)
(terms not disclosed) |
C-III Capital Partners LLC, a commercial real estate services company that focuses on primary and special loan servicing, loan origination, fund management, CDO management, principal investment, investment sales and multifamily property management | Resource America, an asset management company specializing in real estate and credit investments, with $22.4 billion AUM | Acquisition for approx.
$207 million |
WisdomTree Investments, Inc., a New York-based exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor and asset manager, with $43.0 billion AUM globally | Boost, a UK-based ETF provider | Buyout for $6 million |