Category: Capital Investment

Canadian business owners and financial managers who seek finance by banks or other sources generally experience growth in sales and profits. That’s the good news, which of course is offset by the fact that this type of success requires additional working capital.

Liquidity has become the name of the game and ‘money is king’ even today never seems like an old-fashioned cliche? . A recent study by the Conference Board of Canada shows that the main concern of business owners is working capital cash flow. (Also referred to as ‘regulatory and competition issues’)

So you have assets … but can those assets generate cash flow by banks or other alternative sources.

For working capital needs, this is all about ‘current assets’ which includes receivables and inventory. When you invest in these two assets to generate sales, your working capital needs increase, and your ability to manage and hand over those assets plays a key role in the provision of working capital by banks, and non-bank institutions.

You don’t need to be afraid to get into traditional or alternative working capital solutions if you have managed your current assets correctly – you only make money for liquidity, and that is rarely a bad thing.

So, Canadian chartered banks are the solution for your needs. Maybe, maybe, maybe our answer, which means that if your company is able to meet the bank’s criteria for a revolving credit line, your needs can usually be met. What is even more concerning for our clients is their ability to not be able to produce enough financing for a sister from receivables, aka inventory.

That then led us into an alternative to bank financing, which is a fast-growing area of asset-based financing, specifically asset-based credit lines. This facility is more expensive, but gives you a total margin of the market value of your receivables, inventory, and, guess what, we will throw equipment and real estate if you want to provide a temporary margin. And remember, your balance sheet doesn’t take on debt when you enter a bank or alternative asset-based credit line, you only get money from your finances for cash flow.

The reality is that alternative financing methods are increasingly popular – yes they are more expensive, but if your company generates sufficient margins and returns on capital, your ability to utilize almost unlimited working capital can prove to be a very positive experience.

The reality of working capital financing by banks or alternative methods is always the same – you need to determine the turnover of your assets, there will always be times when you need a bulge in your inventory and A / R to fund your growth.

Liquidity, that’s the problem. Talk to a trusted, experienced, and credible Canadian business financing advisor to make sure your traditional and alternative business financing options are available first, clear, and second!…

Are you wondering which portion of the current marketplace is the most profitable area of the market to place your funds? If you are searching for the areas of market that holds the most promise for investors, you should certainly be investigating the potential of initial public offering/IPO opportunities.

As you likely already know, IPO stocks present a very unique opportunity for anyone who is investing into the open market. If you have the opportunity to invest in one of these stocks, you will be able to purchase the investment before the rest of the market has found the opportunity to do so. For this reason, you can be sure you are entering the stock at a very good time, for the company is about to experience a fairly large surge in the amount of a recognition it receives from the overall marketplace.

Even though the IPO stocks are generally a fairly decent investment when it comes to the timing of your purchase, you should still investigate a few factors to ensure you are entering a valuable investment. The basic premise of your research will be based on uncovering whether or not the stock is being sold for two high of a price and whether or not the stock will increase in value over time.

As you may already know, IPO investments are often the most difficult investments to assess. On many occasions there is a limited amount of information relative to the company’s operations, as well as a lack of data about how the public is going to respond to the company’s stock offerings.

This is why you should certainly access as much background research on the company as you possibly can. As you find out more information about the background of the company, you increase your ability to assess the overall value of the opportunity.

A good idea to base your research on is the fact that the company is releasing an IPO in order to raise more capital. Most of the time, companies utilize new sources of capital for expansion activities. There are some circumstances where a company will simply utilize the newly available funds for decreasing interest rate costs they must pay on the capital they borrow, but for the most part though, companies utilize the newly found capital they raise through IPOs for expansion activities. If you can predict that the company will be implementing substantial expansion activities after releasing their IPO, you will be able to easily assess whether or not the company is increasing its overall value as a result.

The fact that the company is attempting to raise capital for expansion is certainly a good sign for investors, but it should definitely not be your only source of information for the decision on whether or not you should buy the stock. You should keep in mind that the fact the company is raising capital to invest into its operations is only in a planned stage at the moment an initial …

The Hong Kong Capital Investment Entrant Scheme was first launched in October 2003. The objective of the program is to allow reasonably well-off people to come to HK and take up residency without needing to join in or establish an operating business. The Scheme rules are reviewed by the Immigration Department on a regular basis.

To qualify for this capital investment visa, 10 Million Hong Kong Dollars is required to be invested in ‘qualifying investments’ (which does not include real estate).

The essential cut and thrust of the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (“CIES”) means that if you invest HK $10 million cash into Hong Kong’s economy, you will be able to procure a visa to take up residence in the HKSAR.

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In the first instance you will secure a two-year period of stay which is then, subject to having maintained the 10 million HKD in the qualifying investments, extendable every two years for up to seven years. Once you get to 7 years continuous ordinary residence, you can apply for permanent residence.

Even if you have not in fact resided in Hong Kong in all of that time, but have maintained the visa status nonetheless, you will be able to secure ‘unconditional stay’ and in the process free up the HKD10m investment for deployment elsewhere. Namely, by then it will have served the process of procuring your residency in the HKSAR with no further strings attached.

One of the benefits under the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme program is that you are entitled to bring your immediate family along with you (i.e. your legal spouse and unmarried children under the age of 18 – who secure dependent visas,).

A condition precedent to CIES visa grant is that you must have owned the HK$10 million for at least two clear years prior to making your application. Moreover, it is a key part of the application process that you have further funds available to you, in addition to the 10 million HK dollars, that you can use to fund your lives in the HKSAR independent of the funds invested to get the visa.

Qualifying investments under the CIES program are financial investments only: since 2010, real estate no longer counts. These asset types are regularly reviewed and updated on the Hong Kong Immigration Department website – so you pay your money and take your choice!

The Capital Investment Entrant Scheme program is not without its critics. It has been argued that Hong Kong does not in fact benefit at all under the Scheme; that it has been founded on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the international balance of payments situation works and has raised a few eyebrows; that the net gain to the HKSAR is in fact nothing at all.

In any event, there’s no doubt, from an applicant’s perspective, the program has been extremely advantageous. For many years there simply was no opportunity to make a mere financial investment in the HKSAR and gain residency in the process. Instead, people …