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Less than a month after buying pro athlete-handling financial and investment advisory firm MTX Wealth Management, Cleveland-based RIA MAI Capital Management says it has now also bought Cincinnati-based John D. Dovich & Associates (JDA).
The addition of JDA to MAI's partnership includes both wealth management and insurance services, while establishing an MAI location in Cincinnati, MAI said July 1. The latest acquisition has also led to the creation of MAI Insurance Solutions, a new entity wholly owned by MAI that's focused on planning-based insurance services, it said.
Before the JDA transaction, MAI just advised its clients on insurance, MAI Chief Financial Officer Jim Kacic told ThinkAdvisor on Wednesday. But MAI Insurance Solutions is MAI's first insurance entity that "has the ability to not only advise on insurance but to place insurance as well," he explained, adding: "We decided that it made much more sense to obtain the ability to place insurance from a firm that is already entrenched in providing this service as a solution to its clients. It is much more efficient to begin with an existing business rather than build it from the ground up."
The JDA deal closed Sunday and will increase MAI's assets under management by about $600 million, it noted. Financial and legal terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
