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2019 In Review: #1 in Insurance M&A

Sica Fletcher

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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Physician Practice Acquisitions: A Primer on Hospital & Private Equity Consolidation

InvestmentBank.com

For the better part of the last decade, physician practices have seen a wave of consolidation by hospitals and private equity with 2018 being no exception [1]. In fact, acquisitions by hospitals and private equity in provider services broke records last year according to Bain & Co’s 2019 global healthcare report.

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FOCUS Telecom Business Services Quarterly: Summer 2024 Report

Focus Investment Banking

This was despite a strong overall market that pushed the S&P 500 up 3.9% However, this performance once again lags the broader indices by a fairly wide margin, as both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ gained more than 20% over the past year. and the NASDAQ up 8.3% over the same three-month time frame.

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Insurance Brokerage M&A in the First Half of 2020

Sica Fletcher

Private equity firms continue to drive transaction pace and value. Aggregate Number of Transactions The best source of data we have found for the number of insurance agent and broker M&A transactions for a given period is data aggregated by S&P Market Intelligence on announced transactions. million from $4.7

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Single-Manager Hedge Funds: The Best Way to Get a Recurring Guest Spot on CNBC?

Mergers and Inquisitions

They might have separate teams for specific strategies or markets, but everything is run under a single Profit & Loss statement (P&L). There are very few real “requirements” besides the single PM / single P&L one above and the standard Limited Partner / General Partner structure that all hedge funds use.

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Will There Be an IPO for a Specialty Consulting Company in 2024?

Focus Investment Banking

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. So, is a public offering even a consideration for some of the large, privately held consulting companies?

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Fear and Greed Index: A Vital Pulse Check for Investors

Peak Frameworks

The Seven Indicators Stock Price Momentum : The S&P 500 versus its 125-day moving average. An example is the high number of stocks hitting 52-week highs in the 2019 bull run. For instance, the 2018 U.S. stock market plunge saw this indicator drop significantly, signaling fear.