article thumbnail

Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Increasingly, managers find themselves in sometimes heated debate, pitted against their companies’ actuaries, product managers, risk and finance executives, and boards of directors.

article thumbnail

What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. The Board Had No Finance Committee. in 2013 to 3.7 in early 2018, according to Moody’s.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Forget Startups – Buy a Business

Martinka Consulting

Using statistics from BizBuySell.com the article stated the median price of businesses at the end of 2016 rose 8% from 2015 to $216,000. It’s faster, cheaper, and easier to finance. You trade your capital for immediate cash flow, i.e. you get a paycheck on payday just like everybody else.

article thumbnail

Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. It’s not reckless money like it was 15 years ago but financing options abound, including for lower middle market and below sized deals. Record number of small business sales in 2018! This as per bizbuysell.com.

article thumbnail

Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

article thumbnail

Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. Their revenues grew by over 100% in 2016. For example, they may create revenue forecasts that use inputs such as macroeconomic trends for key demographic segments.