Feb 26, 2026
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Like most AM M&A, there isn’t a hard and fast rule and it depends on the situation. There are instances where a fund is getting bought because they are struggling and the buyer wants to take on the assets. There are examples of two similar platforms coming together to scale or examples of larger platforms acquiring smaller groups and running them separately.

 
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