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Funding Future Investment – Raise new capital funds or is it time to sell up?

Investing in new technologies and funding new skills and fresh talent, all while maintaining independence and your firms unique culture, is no doubt a tall order. The pressure to embrace and resolve these matters is relentless. Competitive pressure, productivity and workload pressure or the pressure of modernizing and transforming your business in the face of near constant developments in technology – all bring the need for capital funds into focus. Some firms rely on a strong balance sheet with reinvested profits. Others draw on modest capital injections from retained earnings, bank lending, or new equity partners, or external backing.

This AGN Global Business Voice publication synthesizes seven strategic capital-raising routes available to AGN member firms. Each has unique advantages, trade-offs. Their strategic fits depending on the firm’s objectives, risk appetite, and ownership philosophy.