My guest today is Kurt MacAlpine, the CEO of CI Financial. CI is one of Canada's largest asset and wealth management firms. Over the past 18 months, CI Financial has bought a majority or outright ownership in 13 independent wealth advisory firms across the U.S. That may be the fastest sequence of M&A deals in the history of the wealth management industry. As of today, May 17, CI Financial has $74 billion in wealth management assets. The firm started with zero at the start of 2020.
