Elevate - for business leaders
Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott,
Jon Herbert
We spoke with Jon Herbert who is the Head of Acquisitions Finance at Lloyds Banking Group about the current financing environment. He shares his views from the banking perspective
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Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
FDs,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott,
Stephen Welton
We spoke with Stephen Welton who is the Chief Executive of the Business Growth Fund about the role of Business Growth Fund and the current financing environment.
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Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
FDs,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott
David Ascott discusses our latest research into the
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Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
FDs,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott
Our latest survey looked at the
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Tax,
Technology sector
| Tags: innovation,
business,
tax,
research,
Francesca Lagerberg,
report,
technology,
advice,
relief,
analysis,
incentives,
consultation,
webinar,
R&D,
review,
development,
Dyson,
Samantha Vanags
Find out about the upcoming changes to Research and Development (R&D) tax credits in our FREE webcast taking place tomorrow, Wednesday 27 July at 3pm BST. Read on for details and how to register.
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Thursday, July 07, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
Grant Thornton,
insight,
advice,
magazine,
comment,
subscribe,
interviews,
business leaders,
publications,
Elevate,
Elevate magazine
You’ve read the blog, now read the magazine. Grant Thornton’s summer issue of Elevate magazine for UK business leaders is here at last, featuring stories on empire building and succession, finance flow and China, as well as interviews with leading, innovative business thinkers. For a full preview of what’s inside and details of how to get hold of a copy, read on…
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Economy
| Tags: Pension scheme buy-out,
Pension scheme buy-in,
Defined Benefit pension scheme de-risking,
Longevity swap,
LDI,
Index-based swaps,
Liability Driven investment,
Longevity hedging,
Indemnity-based swaps
Kelvin Wilson, Associate Director in Grant Thornton’s Pension Advisory team sat down with Emanuel Eftimiu, the head of research at Unquote.com.
They discuss some of the options currently available to firms looking to de-risk their defined benefit pension schemes, and in particular some of the issues facing private equity owners with portfolio companies with DB schemes with significant liabilities.
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