Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 5, 2024

YTD June 2024 Agency and Broker Buyer Index Shows a Steady Rise for M&As NEW YORK, NY – August 5, 2024 - Sica | Fletcher releases the Q2 2024 Agency & Broker Buyer Index. Private Equity-backed buyers maintain a dominant position in M&A activity, accounting for 87% of YTD June 2024 Index transactions.

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Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sica | Fletcher is pleased to announce that we’ve topped the S&P Global rankings for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we closed the largest number of transactions ever for our firm, reflecting the increasingly robust M&A market for insurance brokers driven mainly by private equity sponsored brokerages.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 30, 2023

Q2 Broker Buyer Index Shows a 16% Increase in Deal Volume Over Q1 2023 NEW YORK, NY - August 30, 2023 - Sica | Fletcher releases the Q2 2023 Agency & Broker Buyer Index. The Sica | Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index is the most comprehensive report on insurance brokerage M&A activity in existence.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 18, 2024

He explains: “If somebody’s entering a huge notional-sized order into the marketplace, they might not want to put that on-screen. If the order is routed through a floor broker, they can source liquidity, manage the order and get true price discovery. There’s often much, much more liquidity behind those on-screen prices.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 18, 2020

Private equity firms continue to drive transaction pace and value. This blog post analyzes the significance of the statistics included in our ,, Second Quarter 2020 Sica Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index. They have enormous amounts of dry powder that they must deploy and continue to have access to very inexpensive debt.

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How2Exit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

-Ron rn rn rn About The Guest(s): Juan Braschi is the CEO of Boopos, a company that helps talented buyers acquire businesses and provides flexible financing for buying e-commerce and software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses. Juan has a background in finance and technology, and he has experience in investment banking and private equity.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 8, 2023

As the delivery date approaches, the underlying commodity’s price and its futures price converge. Energy Information Administration has a few simple examples here : Your discussions with customers, competitors, and other commodity brokers will also inform this curve. Start in trading and pivot into commodities.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 8, 2024

EBITDA Multiples for Insurance Agencies, 2018-2024 (Projected) M&A Deal Volume for Insurance Agencies, 2018-2024 (Projected) *S&P Global Data taken from ,,, “Insurance Brokers and Servicers Sector View 2024” The most important news this data offers is that insurance M&A is not actually in the tailspin that many “experts” claim it to be.

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Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

Many of these causes have their equivalences to the reasons behind the sale of a company (also known as a divestiture): Liquidity: As the equity holding period matured, investors (private equity funds behind companies) will look to sell. the house failed to increase in expected value), mature market (i.e. divorce, etc.).

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

 YTD the S+P is up 17%!  After a wild run by the Magnificent 7, equity performance drivers will broaden. Such Platforms and brokers’ expertise and technology are essential for sophisticated investors looking to source the types and volumes of liquidity needed to execute complex strategies. They’re merely sleeping.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Winners will be announced on 19 November at Leaders in Trading New York.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 6, 2024

Founded in 2014, they have consistently ranked at the top of the S&P Global Data's rankings for investment banks, totaling an average of 100 deals per year. Their size also provides a hidden value for prospective clients in that it ensures that the firm's principals touch on every deal that they handle.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Markets are constantly challenging and that’s the key aspect to our role.” But sometimes you want to go to the road less trodden, and that’s when you make use of local brokers,” he says. “My

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 28, 2024

H2 2024 Will See Increased Deal Volume & Value If Interest Rates Lower Insurance M&A Buyers Are Looking For New Things In 2024 Equity will play a larger role in deals H2 2024 Will See Increased Deal Volume & Value If Interest Rates Lower 2023 is widely regarded as one of the worst years for M&A in recent memory.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

The History of Private Equity in Insurance One of the primary forces differentiating the insurance M&A market in 2024 from those of decades past is the presence and dominance of private equity (PE) firms in the buyer space. We’ve seen this number jump even in the last two years, with the percentage of equity almost doubling.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

Papanichola began his career at interdealer broker, GFI, however quickly realised the environment wasn’t the one for him. It’s about risk management philosophy and methodology,” explains Papanichola. Interesting, lucrative, fun but highly unconventional,” he says. I could literally trade any product if I wanted to.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 26, 2024

This usually leads to equity-based payouts. private equity firms, investment banks, individual investors). The best approach is to work with a professional company that offers these services, which can take any form, from small business brokers to large investment banks, depending on the agency size. A Quick Turnaround.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While adoption is widespread in equities other asset classes such as fixed income have been slower to adopt these systems given the nuances of the workflows and liquidity landscapes in these markets. They’re typically used in equities given that this asset class trades on exchange unlike fixed income and some foreign exchange assets.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Developed by the firm’s in-house innovation hub, Cboe Labs, the VIX1D Index measure the expected volatility of the S&P 500 Index over the current trading day. The trading venue also launched its Cboe 1-Day Volatility Index (VIX1D) in April, which seeks to measure single trading day volatility.

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Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As we have reported throughout the year, the M&A market for insurance brokers remained at peak, pre-pandemic levels despite all of the public health, political, social, and economic dislocations. S&P reported that the number of insurance brokerage transactions closed in 2020 slightly exceeded those in 2019.

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Lake Country Advisors

JANUARY 21, 2025

Assessing the Business’s Financial Health The financial health of a business is one of the most reliable indicators of its potential as an investment. Without a clear picture of the company’s finances, you risk stepping into a venture that may compromise your capital. Are revenues increasing consistently?

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