Mariner Kemper
That’s a great question and it’s really one of the exciting things about executing this transaction really one of the things that excited us is that
they started a journey two years ago basically to set themselves up to look like us over the next five and 10 years, and this acquisition just accelerates all that work. , they’ve done — I said I think early on in one of our calls, they
planted the seeds and tilled the soil and we get to harvest. , they’ve done all the hard work.
They’ve consolidated the systems and we get to
come in and sort of layer in all things that we do. And I guess, I would say not a lot of risk to that really more opportunity to leverage the work that they’ve already done. we’re pretty excited about it. We get to just come in and like I
said, leverage the work they’ve done. don’t see any risk there really all opportunity.
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