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Can Seeking Help from the Lender Fix Distressed Companies’ Woes?
Turnaround Financing: How to Secure a Borrower Recently, bad practices caused a client’s accounts receivable to get extended well past 90 days. In fact, the client had 20% of its receivables dated further back than 120 days. Company staff knew that much of that would prove to be uncollectible, but no one really knew the […] Read More
What Investors Need to Know about Equity Crowdfunding: Part 2
There is considerable potential in equity crowdfunding, but all investors should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages to such investing. Read More
What Investors Need to Know about Equity Crowdfunding: Part 1
Equity crowdfunding has changed in notable ways since its introduction in 2012, and is now primed to revolutionize how we finance companies and investments. Read More
Alternative Assets and the “Average” Accredited Investor Installment 4
Overview of the Alternative Assets Landscape [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in a series of articles dedicated to the 95% of people in the U.S. who have never invested in a startup, a venture capital fund, a private equity fund, or a hedge fund even though they are permitted to do so and […] Read More
Digital Currency in Your Portfolio
Is now the right time for digital currency investment? Here’s what you should consider before allocating money towards Bitcoin. Read More
Episode 62 with Philippe de Lapérouse
In Episode 62 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Chris Cahill chats with Philippe de Lapérouse, Managing Director of HighQuest Partners, who advises major strategic and financial investors operating and investing globally across the food, biotech and bioenergy value chains. Read More
A Few Minutes With…Neha Manaktala, CEO and Co-founder, DealIndex
Neha Manaktala is co-founder & CEO of DealIndex, a young alternative finance aggregator. Founded in 2014, DealIndex is part of The Grow VC Group. Manaktala has a background as an entrepreneur and finance professional with experience in investment banking, private equity and startups. Read More
Episode 50 with Jeff Kelley & John Drachman
In Episode 50, Accredited Investor Markets Radio speaks with Jeff Kelley of Equity Institutional and John Drachman of Alpha Segment, about alternative investment custodial services, i.e., how interests in alternative assets are held and transferred. Read More
A Few Minutes With … Marshall Saunders, Managing Partner, SaundersDailey
Marshall Saunders is a real estate veteran with two decades of experience and the co-founder and managing partner of SaundersDailey, an online investment marketplace connecting investors to exclusive real estate opportunities, with low minimum investments, in select markets throughout the Midwest. Read More
When the Bank Says No – Hello, Alternative Financing
Even a reasonably healthy business may run short of cash at certain points. Traditional lenders, faced with regulatory constraints and other limitations, may not be able to act quickly enough to be helpful. Other borrowers may have a sudden need for a loan in order to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity. Enter, “alternative financing” — financing provided by a party other than a bank or credit union Read More