{"id":904079,"date":"2025-11-03T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/bmo-completes-acquisition-of-burgundy-asset-management\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:56:17","slug":"bmo-completes-acquisition-of-burgundy-asset-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/bmo-completes-acquisition-of-burgundy-asset-management\/","title":{"rendered":"BMO Completes Acquisition of Burgundy Asset Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-newslines\">\n<p class=\"xn-distributor\">Canada NewsWire<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><br \/>\n          <span class=\"xn-location\">TORONTO<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 3, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/CNW\/ &#8211;\u00a0BMO (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Burgundy Asset Management Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Burgundy Asset Management is a leading wealth manager, providing discretionary investment management for private clients, foundations, endowments, pensions and family offices. The acquisition expands BMO Wealth Management and strengthens BMO&#8217;s offering in the Canadian Investment Counsel space catering to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.<\/p>\n<p>Burgundy&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer, <span class=\"xn-person\">Robert Sankey<\/span>, continues to lead the business which will operate as a separate line of business under BMO Wealth Management. Burgundy Co-Founders Tony Arrell and <span class=\"xn-person\">Richard Rooney<\/span> remain with the business.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <b>About BMO Financial Group<br \/><\/b>BMO Financial Group is the seventh largest bank in\u00a0North America\u00a0by assets, with total assets of\u00a0$1.4 trillion\u00a0as of\u00a0July 31, 2025. Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a diverse team of highly engaged employees providing a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management, global markets and investment banking products and services to 13 million customers across\u00a0Canada,\u00a0the <span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span>, and in select markets globally. Driven by a single purpose, to Boldly Grow the Good<i>\u00a0in business and life<\/i>, BMO is committed to driving positive change in the world, and making progress for a thriving economy, sustainable future, and inclusive society.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <b>Web: <\/b><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4547470-1&amp;h=1816004035&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmo.com%2F&amp;a=www.bmo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.bmo.com<\/a><br \/>\n        <b>X: <\/b>@BMOmedia<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  BMO Financial Group<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rt.prnewswire.com\/rt.gif?NewsItemId=C2690&amp;Transmission_Id=202511030730CANADANWWEB______C2690&amp;DateId=20251103\" style=\"border:0px;width:1px;height:1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada NewsWire TORONTO , Nov. 3, 2025 \/CNW\/ &#8211;\u00a0BMO (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. Burgundy Asset Management is a leading wealth manager, providing discretionary investment management for private clients, foundations, endowments, pensions and family offices. The acquisition expands BMO Wealth Management and strengthens BMO&#8217;s offering in the Canadian Investment Counsel space catering to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients. Burgundy&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer, Robert Sankey, continues to lead the business which will operate as a separate line of business under BMO Wealth Management. Burgundy Co-Founders Tony Arrell and Richard Rooney remain with the business. About BMO Financial GroupBMO Financial Group is the seventh largest bank in\u00a0North America\u00a0by assets, with total assets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/bmo-completes-acquisition-of-burgundy-asset-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BMO Completes Acquisition of Burgundy Asset Management&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BMO Completes Acquisition of Burgundy Asset Management - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/bmo-completes-acquisition-of-burgundy-asset-management\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BMO Completes Acquisition of Burgundy Asset Management - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canada NewsWire TORONTO , Nov. 3, 2025 \/CNW\/ &#8211;\u00a0BMO (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. 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