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The news this week that Wealthsimple Technologies Inc. was raising $750 million in a funding round that valued the financial upstart at $5 billion up from $1.4 billion in October sent jaws dropping in Canada’s wealth management industry.
What made the valuation particularly shocking is that Wealthsimple currently has about $9.7 billion in assets under management, meaning the deal valued the firm at 52 per cent of AUM, an unheard-of figure in an industry that typically sees asset managers sold for two to five per cent of AUM.
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