Matt Best

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Welcome back to the Growth Workshop podcast with myself, Matt Best and Johnny Adams, continuing our last episode's discussion.

Fascinating insights just shared there in terms of what, and practical things that to Donald's point, if you're listening to this podcast and thinking about selling your business, things you need to consider.

And clearly, um,

you know a lot of this stuff we do find out after the fact but due diligence is such an important factor in this to make sure that you're across all of that jitter you mentioned an example of where they got they had two days to do the um the technical integration and they could only possibly have done that had they done enough preparation i think that's a key thing right and a key lesson in this market but in other markets as well um like just to kind of move us into into that second thing from the report which is talking about as a result of some of these shifts that we're seeing

What are the key forces driving some of these acquisitions and who are the leading players shaping this?

Donald, we've seen that accountancy-led professional services firms are perhaps looking to rebuild their financial planning capabilities.

We've got a renewed PE interest, of course, and then some interest from across the pond in the US as well.

So who are those key players and how are those dynamics influencing the future of the market?

Brilliant.

Thank you, Donald, for that.

And what does that mean for the advice?

What does that mean for the advice in the market?

What does that mean for arguably for the advice gap?

I know we see in the US that there's perhaps less of a gap, more people receiving financial advice, more people being more financially literate.

Is that a change you think we're going to see as a result of some of these shifts?

Or do you think that that's largely going to stay the same?