Together, the firms generate about $4.8 billion in annual
annuity premium revenue.
AmeriLife Group LLC has acquired a majority interest
in J.D. Mellberg Financial, a Tucson, Arizona-based firm that sells
annuities and retirement planning services.
AmeriLife — a Clearwater, Florida-based life,
health and annuity distributor — said earlier this week that it’s getting
J.D. Mellberg’s lead-generation, appointment-setting, and analysis tools,
as well as the company’s sales and planning operations.
AmeriLife is also getting a J.D. Mellberg
mobile app that can match agents with prospects.
AmeriLife is not saying what it paid for J.D.
Mellberg.
Joshua Mellberg.
J.D. Mellberg’s founder, will become an AmeriLife principal and a
member of AmeriLife’s management, AmeriLife said.
Mellberg and Dan Morgan, J.D. Mellberg’s
general counsel and chief compliance officer, will continue to manage the newly
acquired business from its offices in Tucson, AmeriLife said.
AmeriLife
AmeriLife has relationships with about 140,000
financial professionals.
The company arranged $395 million in financing
in June, and it reported at the time that it had about $100 million in extra
capital it could use to make acquisitions.
Thomas H. Lee Partners L.P., a private
equity firm, recently agreed to acquire control of AmeriLife from another
private equity firm, J.C. Flowers & Company LLC. The companies
predicted that the deal would close by March 31.
Ganesh Rao, a managing director at Thomas H.
Lee, said in a comment about the AmeriLife deal that AmeriLife “was poised for
future growth and expansion.”
J.D. Mellberg Financial was founded in 2005
and now has clients located all around the country.
AmeriLife said in July, when it announced
plans to buy a majority stake in Brookstone Capital Management LLC, that it was
generating about $3.5 billion in annual life, health and annuity premium
revenue. Acquiring J.D. Mellberg will increase total
annual annuity premium revenue to $4.8 billion, AmeriLife said.
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2020/02/14/amerilife-acquires-control-over-j-d-mellberg/
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