WE CRUSHED 24!!
Friends, colleagues, partners and partners to be,
2024 has proven to be our best year ever! We’ve grown to 335 employees, 43 branches, acquired two investment firms and have a third under LOI. When we close on acquisition #3 shortly, our AUA will sit well north of $10 billion, but more importantly, our fiscal responsibility and thoughtful growth has increased our enterprise value by approximately 50% in the last two years.
KPIs aside, let’s not forget the impact we’re having on the lives of our clients, who benefit from a sophisticated, centralized CIO Office manager due diligence process, paralleled only by family offices and institutions. By moving from two asset classes to six, we’ve modernized client portfolios while giving our clients the gift of lower volatility. This approach has touched the lives of approximately 60,000 clients holding some 100,000 accounts.
A big THANK YOU goes out to our financial advisors. Your unwavering care for your clients and ability to build trusting relationships is a job few can manage. But we know advisors wouldn’t be where they are today without assistance from each team’s talented support staff. And the third leg of the stool belongs to the many head office employees across our corporate services departments! This interdependent relationship is what makes the wheel go round! Thank you all, for without you, there would be no Harbourfront!
I’d also like to send a shout out to the Harbourfront Gives Foundation’s Board of Directors. 2024 was another exceptional year of giving. Since the inception of the foundation, we’ve raised, contributed, and donated $700,000 to over 105 charities.
While 2024 was our firm’s best year ever, our financial projections show that 2025 will reach new milestones. Our three acquisitions and advisors in ramp-up mode will add significant EBITDA, we continue to be on the hunt for more firms to purchase, we’re seeing strong returns from the heavy staffing and technology investments we made in 2023, and our recruiting SWAT team is only getting stronger.
But now is time to turn off your email and put your pen down! Spend time with your family and friends and enjoy some eggnog—you deserve it! Take some time, reflect on what we’ve accomplished, have some fun, and I’ll see you on the other side!
From my family to yours: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and Happy New Year!!!
Danny