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LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR CAPITAL RAISING: It Works – Understand How
March 22, 2023 Capital activity has become more and more difficult as capital market conditions have become more illiquid. Organizations which want to source capital should assume that the process has increased by... Read More -
DEER ISLE: Insights, Flows & Investment Trends (March 2022)
March 14, 2023 Oil: Oil prices continue to surge toward $150+/barrel, the level we highlighted in last month Insights. Chinese Interest Rates: While rates in the rest of the world are rising, Chinese interest rates... Read More -
TIME IS DUE DILIGENCE: Use it to Your Capital Raising Advantage
February 21, 2023 Capital Seeker: “I am not going to waste my time on them. I sent an email, had a call and/or meeting on my investment opportunity. There has been no follow... Read More -
GUEST POST: ESG/SUSTAINABILITY REGULATIONS – The Coming Impact on Middle Market and Small Business
February 21, 2023 By: Jenifer Faust (Faust Global Partners) & Dean Emerick (ESG The Report) In 2023, there will be an increased focus on sustainability and ESG-related regulations worldwide. In the United States,... Read More -
DEER ISLE: Insights, Flows & Investment Trends
February 21, 2023 Rolling Recession? Or, Old Fashion Cyclical Sectors? There is a new term being “heard on the street” … “Rolling Recession”. A Rolling Recession seems to be a description of an... Read More -
PROPRIETARY PRIVATE DEALS: How Valuable?
January 26, 2023 In an age of sophisticated fund managers and information overload, Deer Isle believes that the way to maximize sale, merger, or investment valuations and capital markets outcomes is for a... Read More -
PRIVATE FUND PLACEMENT AGENTS: Valuable or Not?
January 26, 2023 The process for sourcing capital for funds has changed dramatically in the last 15 years while the Placement Agent process has essentially remained the same over this time period. In... Read More -
DEER ISLE: Insights, Flows & Investment Trends
January 26, 2023 Welcome to 2023! Hopefully a year that brings peace and prosperity to the capital markets. It seems likely that the US will go into a recession, which should bring down... Read More -
Tidings of Cheer and Good Fortune for 2023!!
December 21, 2022 Wishing everyone a Holiday Season full of Joy and Happiness… Read More -
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH/THE TOUGH GET GOING: 5 Capital Seeker Survival Tactics
December 13, 2022 It may be an understatement to say that the end of 2022 was one of the worst years for Capital Seekers in twenty years. Bloomberg reports that “Venture Capital Deals... Read More -
DEER ISLE: Insights, Flows & Investment Trends
December 13, 2022 Market Liquidity – Large capital resources available once Fed stops hiking interest rates: We have seen internal surveys done by large wealth advisors which show that cash balances/equivalents are approx. 40% of... Read More -
GUEST POST: ESG RATING AGENCIES – What Investment Managers Need to Know
December 13, 2022 As COP 27 is wrapping up in Egypt, and we are reminded of our responsibility to take urgent climate action, many investment managers are looking for ways to align their... Read More
