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The Umbrella Fund Reimagined: SACs and the Future of Collective Investment Schemes in Jamaica

July 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

With the rules of the regime now fully mapped — the ring-fence, the gateway, the governing instrument, the directors’ discipline and the machinery of contained collapse — this series turns to application, and it begins where the impact will likely be felt first: the funds industry. Government commentary on Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act, 2024...

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The Governing Instrument: Where SAC Protection Is Won or Lost

July 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every corporate vehicle has a document at its heart. For a company it is the articles; for a trust, the deed; for a partnership, the agreement. For a segregated account inside a Jamaican segregated accounts company (SAC), it is the governing instrument — and this series has already flashed its warning light twice. Article 4...

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How to Turn Around a Business in Trouble

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Trouble is not what kills businesses. Untreated trouble is. Most firms do not die of their problems — they die of the year spent not facing them. A turnaround is a sequence, and it begins with a phone call most owners make twelve months too late. The Problem, Lived “Carlton” has run a manufacturing...

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The Governance Maturity Journey: From Reactive to Continuous

June 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

No board arrives at continuous governance overnight. It climbs there, one stage at a time. Here is the map — five levels from reactive to continuous — so you can locate where your organisation truly stands, and see the next rung clearly. Across the previous ten articles, this series has described what continuous governance looks...

Mobilising Caribbean Institutional Capital for Asset-Anchored Bonds

June 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The demand side of the asset-anchored bond: the pension funds and insurers whose liabilities make them the natural holders — and what stands between them and the supply The first eight articles of this series built an instrument and a framework. From Backing through Kinetics, the seven pillars of BEDROCK™ set out how a Caribbean...

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Resilience: Stress-Engineering Bonds for the Caribbean | BEDROCK™ Framework

June 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar R of the BEDROCK™ Framework: catastrophe risk, insurance integration, currency exposure, and tourism-cycle sensitivity — engineered as first-order structure, not afterthought This is the pillar that makes BEDROCK™ a Caribbean framework rather than a developed-market template with a tan. Backing, Engineering, and Disclosure are universal disciplines — a bond structured to those three pillars...

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Numbers That Outlast the Quarter: Why Caribbean Boards Need Actuarial Insight

May 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The actuarial perspective on board decisions whose financial consequences will not show up in the next four management reports — and why every Caribbean institution holds more of them than it has measured. Caribbean boards routinely authorize decisions whose financial consequences will not appear in the next four management reports. This is the first of...

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The New Audit Mandate: Why Caribbean Boards Must Rethink Audit as a Risk Lens

May 23, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For most of the last fifty years, the external audit in the Caribbean was treated as an annual ritual. Companies prepared their books. Auditors arrived, asked questions, tested samples, and a few months later issued an opinion. Regulators received a copy. The audit committee acknowledged it. Shareholders, if they read it at all, read...

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Secondary Markets and Private Company Liquidity: A Future Opportunity for the Caribbean

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Private companies across the Caribbean often represent substantial economic value, but that value is frequently locked inside illiquid ownership structures. Founders, early investors, family shareholders, employees, and private capital providers may hold interests in growing businesses for many years without a clear pathway to realize part of that value. Globally, this liquidity challenge...

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The Liquidity Problem in Private Markets: Why Caribbean Businesses Must Plan Earlier for Exits, Valuation and Investor Confidence

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Private companies are the backbone of Caribbean economies. They create employment, preserve family wealth, serve local communities, support regional trade, and often represent the largest source of enterprise value for founders and shareholders. Yet many of these companies face a major strategic challenge: illiquidity. A business may be profitable, growing, and valuable on...

How to Turn Around a Business in Trouble

The Governance Maturity Journey: From Reactive to Continuous

Mobilising Caribbean Institutional Capital for Asset-Anchored Bonds

Resilience: Stress-Engineering Bonds for the Caribbean | BEDROCK™ Framework

Numbers That Outlast the Quarter: Why Caribbean Boards Need Actuarial Insight

July 20, 2026Internal Audit in Public Bodies: Accountability, Compliance, and the Public Purse

July 20, 2026Does Your SME Need an Internal Audit Function? The Case for Co-Sourcing in the Caribbean

July 20, 2026Continuous Auditing and Data Analytics: Moving Beyond the Annual Audit Plan

July 19, 2026Auditing the Algorithms: GenAI Governance, ISO/IEC 42001, and the New Audit Universe

July 19, 2026Cybersecurity as an Audit Mandate: The Topical Requirement Caribbean Firms Can’t Ignore

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