These are public listed financial instruments controlled and managed by financial institutions. An informed judgment and status regarding inherent risks and returns are mostly of public knowledge and when performance linked to expectations is not met financial instruments could experience significant volatility. The investor therefore must decide between short-term, medium-term, and long-term duration coupled with the objective of capital growth or income growth. Our consultants are already to guide and assist any investor assess investment potential based on investment objectives.

The intentional and conscious decision by an investor to reposition and carefully plan strategies with specific future objectives as part of the main considerations. Mergers and takeovers are deliberate strategies to form bigger entities for several reasons including gaining access to overcoming regulatory challenges, reducing competition, economies of scale to reduce prices, and increasing customer base. Mergers and takeovers could be used to gain expertise knowledge and resources. Takeovers help investors gain control and certain rights to implement intended objectives.

Defined relationship based on performance is underlying unspecified norm as part of franchising characteristics. Franchisee decisions could be based on perceived benefits attached to a brand and the perception of attaining profitability at the earliest possible time. Franchisor has a dilemma of ensuring selected participants would maintain or improve the brand's goodwill hence the imposition of operational rules and regulations for franchisees to maintain the Franchisor's unique market proposition. Our role is to help any investor evaluate anticipated investment options under franchise options and represent client interest.

Considered to be most fluid in terms of flexibility, unwritten rules, best return for investment and probably less regulated in comparison to public markets. Determinant factors to consider for investing in private markets are many and requires having understanding of respective sectors to conduct due diligence. As is the case with any investment, risks prevailing may not be documented for private markets and could be higher than public markets. We are available to assist investors identify opportunities, examine viability of target entity and negotiate reasonable and acceptable price for investors.

The perception that the grass is greener elsewhere could not be further from the truth. We assist business owners and managers evaluate possibilities of enhancing existing business scope by examining past trends together with future projected economic forecast to help decide on approach. We would deliberately look  beyond capital injection as we examine underlying business ideas. Particularly important for a new start up implementation to operate at lowest cost possible, suitability of location levels of expertise, market competition, readiness of customers to adapt to new ideas. be proposed.

In partnership investment, there is shared benefits and risks depending on terms of participation which also affects implied tax compliance for partners. While venture capital is purely for acquisition of equity in a startup, early-stage, and emerging entities deemed to have or demonstrated high growth potential. At each stage an investor could be asked to add  more capital to sustain invested consideration. Till objective is achieved underlying risks for investors are similar to partnership arrangement though nothing would be said in contract draft.