Sica Fletcher

APRIL 30, 2024

This article presents a step-by-step guide on how to value an insurance agency - both in the sense of how a valuation agency/M&A advisor goes about valuation, and also in terms of what insurance agency owners can do to maximize their valuation prior to running an M&A deal.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 15, 2024

This article breaks down the question, “how much is my insurance agency worth” in further detail, but the table below provides a surface-level overview based on varying degrees of revenue and operating expense: How Much Is My Insurance Agency Worth: A Breakdown Answering the question, “how much is my insurance agency worth?”

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Insurance M&A S&P Valuation 52

Sica Fletcher

JUNE 14, 2024

Insurance agency owners who are considering the prospect of running an M&A deal process often have many concerns about the fate of their agencies, but the most common by far are those surrounding the agency’s purchase price at closing. We’ll also detail some of the factors affecting these calculations.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 6, 2024

Our research team’s latest report compares the top insurance agency investment banks of 2024. Insurance Agency Investment Banks: Investment banks that specialize in the insurance industry. Insurance Agency Investment Banks: Investment banks that specialize in the insurance industry.

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Sica Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

When insurance agency sellers have already met with prospective buyers, they may have been offered a valuation based on their “adjusted EBITDA.” The following article provides a brief overview of EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA valuations for insurance agencies. What Elements Are Included in Adjusted EBITDA for Insurance Agencies?

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Sica Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Although insurance agencies are not always family affairs, the 2024 insurance landscape reveals that between 50% and 70% of agencies are family-owned. The valuation process has a few additional considerations when selling a family insurance agency. In particular, sellers should be aware of: Family Reputation as an Asset.

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CNBC: Investing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Jeff Kilburg describes his put option purchase on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust.

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Sica Fletcher

APRIL 11, 2024

This article examines the most common types of insurance agency sellers, which we break down into two distinct categories: the owners - agency CEOs and founders - and the partners - professionals in charge of overseeing a sale to ensure the best outcome.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 8, 2024

Quite a few articles already detail the process of “how” to sell an insurance agency (you can read our article on that subject here ), but very few get to the bare bones of “why.” If you’re asking, “ should I sell my insurance agency,” the three big questions you must answer first are: Why Do I Want To Sell?

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 28, 2024

The following report contains our observations of insurance M&A trends in 2024. However, volume and value in the insurance sector remained remarkably stable. As insurance M&A enters into the 2020s, however, buyers are looking at several additional factors that speak to an agency’s more intangible qualities.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 11, 2024

The following report details insurance brokerage M&A multiple averages for H1 2024. Our research team averaged the information using data from our Sica | Fletcher index, which monitors approximately 70% of insurance sector transactions. Because several kinds of insurance are legally required (e.g., Streamlined Operations.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 12, 2024

As one of the most active M&A firms in the insurance sector, we are frequently asked how insurance agency valuations work. This article discusses the fundamentals of insurance agency valuations, plus a few lesser-known factors that play into these processes before we give an overview of the insurance M&A market in 2024.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 2, 2024

For agency owners looking to sell their business in 2024, it’s helpful to know something about the insurance M&A buyer landscape before going in. The following section details the insurance M&A buyer landscape as of Q3 2024. To provide a sense of context for buyers’ current standing, we also include information from 2023.

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Insurance M&A Private Equity Advisory 52

Sica Fletcher

JULY 1, 2024

Selling an insurance brokerage is not altogether that much different than selling an insurance agency or even an insurance company. specialized regulatory and licensing requirements that are different from those of insurance agencies. That being said, brokerage owners need to consider a.)

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Sica Fletcher

APRIL 18, 2024

is the most common question that we get from owners considering selling an insurance agency. This article seeks to cover the two most significant bases of selling an insurance agency - price and equity - to offer readers a more holistic sense of a positive deal structure. This is the natural consequence of getting an immediate payout.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 13, 2024

Q1 2024 Agency and Broker Buyer Index Reveals a Dynamic Landscape for Insurance M&A NEW YORK, NY - May 13, 2024 - Sica | Fletcher releases the Q1 2024 Agency & Broker Buyer Index. The Sica | Fletcher Index is the leading report on mergers and acquisitions within the insurance brokerage sector.

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Sica Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The following article details the process of selling an insurance agency book of business in 2024, including deviations from the process of selling an agency, the valuation process, and common payout structures. Selling an insurance agency book of business has a few advantages over selling the agency in total. Why Sell Just the Book?

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 29, 2024

M&A transactions for insurance companies are part of a robust but complicated market that requires ingesting a great deal of data in order to fully understand. While insurance M&A did see slight dips in deal volume and average value (Fig.2) While insurance M&A did see slight dips in deal volume and average value (Fig.2)

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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 14, 2024

Insurance sector specializations, however, are skills rarely found on investment bank teams, which tend to specialize across a variety of industries. Experience First and foremost, prospective clients considering an investment bank in the insurance sector should look at the overall reputation of the firm.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 14, 2024

Disclaimer: The article below contains a quick and easy method for calculating the ballpark value of an insurance agency using standardized market information. Readers should note that the actual value of your insurance agency may vary considerably from what this estimate might provide.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 23, 2024

In it, we provide readers with a quick and simple overview of the current insurance brokerage M&A market , after which we discuss several macroeconomic and industry-specific factors that could drastically affect transactions in the next six months. The market is already highly competitive, but it’s also limited to what buyers can afford.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 31, 2024

The 2024 insurance M&A market has changed substantially from just a few years ago, with potentially staggering implications for the future of insurance M&A transactions. Insurance M&A Transactions in 2024 The insurance M&A transactions we have observed thus far in 2024 indicate larger trends in the sector.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 16, 2024

S&P Global’s 2024 Market Intelligence League Table Released NEW YORK, NY - May 16, 2024 - Premier financial advisory firm Sica | Fletcher continues to lead the insurance M&A industry in 2024 by maintaining the # 1 spot on S&P Global’s Market Intelligence 2024 League Tables for M&A.

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M&A S&P Insurance Advisory 52

Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

The insurance M&A market in 2024 is significantly more complex now than it was 20 years ago. However, this report seeks to make sense of these qualities as a whole to provide an overview of the 2024 insurance M&A market. for insurance agencies.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 26, 2024

This article outlines how to sell an insurance agency by chronological steps, with a quick overview of the process in the table immediately following. We also include some key insights we’ve gathered over several decades of selling insurance agencies. Insurance agency M&A transactions take one of two forms: Auction.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 18, 2020

What the Data Is Telling Us In our last few posts, we reported on what we perceived to be the trends in insurance agency and brokerage M&A in light of the pandemic and analyzed the reasons for these trends. In summary, we observed that: The most active acquirers continue to be highly interested in acquisitions.

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Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

S&P Global’s 2023 Market Intelligence League Table Released NEW YORK, NY - February 8, 2024 - Sica | Fletcher, a premier financial advisory firm, retains its commanding presence in the #1 spot on S&P Global’s Market Intelligence League Table, a position the firm has held quarter-over-quarter since 2017.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 30, 2024

Updated Rankings for S&P Global’s Market Intelligence League Tables Released NEW YORK, NY - July 30, 2024 - Leading advisory firm Sica | Fletcher continues to command the insurance M&A industry by maintaining the #1 spot on S&P Global’s Market Intelligence 2024 League Tables.

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Razorpay

JUNE 18, 2023

Traditional banking, which has been the go-to for hundreds of years now, has not been able to keep up with today’s tech-savvy customers. Tasks that typically require a visit to a physical branch, like depositing a cheque, can be done on the go from a user’s mobile phone or laptop. New-age banking is new.

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How2Exit

MARCH 12, 2023

This includes examining the company’s financials, contracts, and other documents that will help them to determine the value of the business. Having the right documents in place, such as an operating agreement, P&Ls, meeting minutes, and resolutions, can make the process of selling the business much smoother and easier.

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Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

An analysis of the most active acquirers in the insurance brokerage space reveals 13% higher average revenue values but lower transaction volume than 2022 as the year closed. The Sica | Fletcher Index stands as the leading report on mergers and acquisitions within the insurance brokerage sector.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Sica | Fletcher Index is the leading report on mergers and acquisitions within the insurance brokerage sector. The shift in buyer rotation year over year is contributing to the evolving dynamics of the insurance M&A landscape. billion in insurance agency and brokerage transactions since 2014.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Sica | Fletcher Index is the leading report on mergers and acquisitions within the insurance brokerage sector. The shift in buyer rotation year over year is contributing to the evolving dynamics of the insurance M&A landscape. billion in insurance agency and brokerage transactions since 2014.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 30, 2023

With 22 of the most active acquirers in the insurance brokerage space, the Sica | Fletcher Index indicates improvement over the previous quarter. The Sica | Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index is the most comprehensive report on insurance brokerage M&A activity in existence.

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Sica Fletcher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

An analysis of the most active acquirers in the insurance brokerage space reveals higher average revenue values but lower transaction volume compared to 2022 as the market enters Q4. The Sica | Fletcher Broker Buyer Index stands as the leading report on mergers and acquisitions within the insurance brokerage sector.

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Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

Regardless of the base reason(s), the current owners and management of a company looking for a new owner should seek to: Maximize return on investment for current owners. Elimination of costs post-transaction: any cost that the target won’t incur under a new ownership, such as: key-person insurance, credit insurance, etc.

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