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Tilney Tie-Up With Rival Would Create $55 Billion Wealth Manager

  • Private-equity firm Permira Advisers bought Tilney in 2014
  • Consolidation is quickening among British wealth managers
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Plans to merge Tilney Group Ltd. and Smith & Williamson would turn two wealth managers with more than three centuries of history into one of the largest in the U.K.

The combination would create a firm with more than 45 billion pounds ($55 billion) in assets under management, roughly the same as UBS Group AG’s U.K. wealth arm and Cazenove Capital, according to a December 2018 Citywire ranking of wealth firms.