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Retirement Planning Tips
Experienced business leaders recommend early retirement planning, especially for entrepreneurs and business owners. While the appropriate retirement age is a personal decision, planning for it has immense future benefits. Some planning tips include:
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Business Exit Strategies
Entrepreneurs embrace the effort and hard work required to establish a new idea, start-up or venture. However, one aspect that they often forget to think about is an exit strategy. It is not enough to build a successful business; the owner must think about how they will transition out of it, which is possible by considering the various exit strategies.
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Defining Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & acquisitions are grouped together in the financial world as they both refer to the consolidation of two or more companies and their assets.
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Choosing the Right Exit Strategy
When thinking about selling a business, it takes time to develop the right exit strategy. There are a range of possible exit strategies to choose from depending on the objectives of the seller, including:
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Selling a Business: Reasons and Attributes
Making the decision to sell a small to medium-sized business is often a difficult one. Most small to medium-sized business owners are emotionally invested in their companies as well as financially. There are many reasons why people may choose to sell, and several things that can be done to help make the business more attractive to potential buyers before sale.
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Business: The Difference Between Economic Value and Market Value
Businesses frequently use both economic value and market value calculations as measurements of success or to help evaluate performance. These are two different metrics that each employ different criteria to make calculations.
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Business Insights: The Benefits of Diversification
Diversification for business means entering new markets, developing new lines of products or services, or adding complementary services to help grow the business. By diversifying, businesses typically find they are able to increase revenue as they can reach a wider demographic.
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Defining Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions describe the consolidation of two or more companies into one entity with the objective of maximising wealth and creating more value. Mergers and acquisitions occur with the aim of creating synergy value, which could be in the form of higher revenues, lower operating costs or lower cost of capital.
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Finance: Explaining Private Equity
Private equity is a form of alternative investment in which investors typically bring capital to a private company, with a view to growing that business. This capital can be used for multiple purposes, including introducing new technologies and product lines, opening new offices and factories, or expanding geographically.
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A Definition of Alternative Investments
Alternative investments are investments that fall outside of the conventional categories, such as cash, bonds and stocks. Most alternative investments are more complex, carry a higher degree of risk, and have less regulation than traditional investments.