Mercer Advisors is buying Transitions Wealth Administration, a Denver-based RIA with greater than 400 shoppers and about $465 million in managed belongings.

The acquisition is Mercer’s fourth workplace in Colorado, together with its nationwide headquarters, (in whole, the agency has 83 workplaces across the nation).

Transitions was based in 1999 by a workforce of accountants, together with Bruce Bendell and Gary Saltzman, who have been later joined by Michelle R. Sandt-Wade and Michael Simmons. The agency helps shoppers with funding and financial savings methods, in addition to tax, insurance coverage and property planning and guaranteeing their charitable donations have a big impact.

Bendell stated the agency had reached a degree the place it was at a crossroads in figuring out whether or not they would internally construct out their infrastructure to increase additional, or be a part of with a bigger agency that “had already efficiently crossed that Rubicon.” 

Transitions labored with the funding banker Advisor Progress Methods as a transaction advisor, ultimately selecting Mercer as an applicable companion. Bendell stated Vice Chairman David Barton helped seal the take care of a pitch framing Mercer as offering a “Mayo Clinic strategy” to monetary planning.

“That’s precisely our enterprise mannequin and degree of care that we offer to our native clientele, however Mercer Advisors does it on a nationwide degree,” Bendell stated.

Mercer Advisors was based in 1985 and at present has about 1,010 workers and greater than $50 billion in whole shopper belongings. 

Final 12 months, the agency accomplished a major revamp of its branding to mark its evolution up to now a number of years as a nationwide agency (rising from $12 billion in AUM in 2017 to $50 billion as we speak). The rebranding didn’t embrace a reputation change, however did embrace new model pointers, photos, messaging and new colours. 

Final June, Mercer introduced on the Toronto- and New York-based Atlas Companions as its third personal fairness investor, which was anticipated to boost greater than $1 billion in frequent fairness and increase Mercer’s valuation above $3 billion. Atlas was anticipated to carry related stakes to Genstar Capital and Oak Hill Companions, the agency’s different two personal fairness buyers.

In a single week final August, Mercer introduced two main acquisitions totaling about $1.4 billion in shopper belongings, together with the $720 million San Diego-based Personal Asset Administration, in addition to Steward Wealth Administration, a 12-person workforce within the Dallas/Fort Price space managing roughly $680 million. 

Different Mercer acquisitions final summer season included the Macon, Ga.-based Day & Ennis, with $400 million in belongings, and Mallard Monetary Companions, a $180 million agency primarily based in Newark, Del.