ACA Group Announces Agreement to Acquire UMB Distribution Services, LLC
ACA Group (ACA), the leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to clients in the financial services industry, today announced its intent to acquire the broker-dealer distribution business from UMB Fund Services, a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: UMBF) (UMB).
- ACA Group (ACA), the leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to clients in the financial services industry, today announced its intent to acquire the broker-dealer distribution business from UMB Fund Services, a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: UMBF) (UMB).
- ACA’s distribution division, ACA Foreside, is the industry’s largest third-party distributor by number of funds, currently distributing and servicing $2 trillion in assets across hundreds of fund families.
- The lift out of UMB’s distribution business expands ACA Foreside’s internal distribution team, co-led by Teresa Cowan and Chris Lanza, and will include the addition of asset management clients with mutual fund, exchange-traded fund (ETF), and closed-end fund products.
- The transaction will introduce over $48 billion in client assets to ACA and allow current UMB clients the ability to leverage ACA’s expansive advisory support and industry-leading technology.