Our Services

Our Services

We Solve Together

Advisory

The Wealth and Investment Management industry is complex. Managers need to balance regulation, product changes and cost pressures with the growth of their business.

We can support you by bringing together seasoned practitioner experience and specialist market knowledge. We will arm you with the insights you need to develop your strategy and help you make the right decisions for you business.

Mergers & Acquisitions

The Wealth sector is experiencing unprecedented levels of consolidation and our deep sector knowledge can be leveraged to support firms who are involved with, or contemplating, M&A and integration activity.

  • Acquisitions – from strategy through to pre-deal Due Diligence.  We will help you understand if the integration is the right one, and allow you to make an informed decision.

  • Integrations – we can support you with strategy and execution to bring businesses together to achieve your business goals.  We can lead your proposition, platform and system integration activities.

Our team have extensive experience of M&A activity with Private Equity houses, trade buyers and sellers, and listed firms – we can help you with ‘what good looks like’ and how to successfully deliver your synergies.

Merger & Acquisition
Transformation and Change

Transformation & Change

The Solve team has led many high-profile transformation and change programmes across the Wealth and Investment Management sectors including the outsourcing of services, new technology implementations, regulatory change and M&A integrations.

We know where the “gotchas” are, and we use our experience to efficiently deliver to time, scope and budget. But equally as important, is the way that we integrate into your business:

  • We put in the time to understand the business drivers behind the change so that we can  optimise delivery to lock in business case benefits.

  • We work with empathy, listening carefully to stakeholders, and tailoring our approach to make sure your change works as expected, whilst sharing our knowledge to leave your teams well equipped following the transition to BAU.

  • We focus relentlessly on removing barriers to delivery to ensure requirements are met and negative impacts are minimised.

Systems & Vendor Selection

The technology and system provider landscape is evolving fast and identifying the right partner for your business is becoming ever more difficult.

By using our deep knowledge of providers and systems across the wealth industry, our team can:

  • Understand your current and future functional and technical requirements.

  • Perform a market scan to identify, evaluate and short-list vendors for your required solution, supporting with RFP development and vendor negotiations.

  • Provide support in planning and implementing the selected vendor, and project managing the delivery to ensure the systems implementation stays on track and delivers the expected benefits.

Syatems and Vendor Selection
Product and Proposition

Product & Proposition

Having a well-defined and clearly articulated proposition ensures your business can deliver a compelling and competitive suite of products which match with your own capabilities and strategy.

Using our deep industry knowledge we will work with you to develop your proposition in line with core business goals. We apply detailed analysis and our understanding of the end-client and regulatory landscape to help you:

  • Refine, devise or implement new services and propositions.

  • Review your current proposition and product suite and provide insight and recommendations on how it compares to the market

  • Run a health check on the processes, systems and controls in place.   

Research

Our experience and network can be brought to bear on questions you want to answer. As well as conducting our own research and building a knowledge base on the market and leading participants, we can be engaged to run a bespoke piece of research or market intelligence for you.

We believe in the maxim “None of us is as smart as all of us.” (Ken Blanchard), our research can be a valuable tool to have in the kit bag.

  • Get an answer to a question be it broad or narrow using our knowledge base and experience

  • Source SMEs into specialist areas in regulation, tax, legal, ESG

  • Conduct research for publicly shared thought leadership as joint authors

  • Tap into our knowledge of the latest trends in Wealth Tech and opportunities

Research

Meet The Team

Dave Mason
Dave Mason

Chief Executive Officer

Becky Colegrave
Becky Colegrave

Director

Mark Elliott
Mark Elliott

Director

Farzana Khalil
Farzana Khalil

Director

Karl Cranswick
Karl Cranswick

Director

Blake Walton

Senior Consultant

Gilly Green
Gilly Green

Business Advisor to Solve Partners

Donald Reid
Donald Reid

Founder & NED

Holly Abbott

Business Manager

Jonathan Hammond

Managing Partner, COO

Edward Russell

Principal Consultant

Phil Eves

Director