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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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One Company, Many Fortresses: Why Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act Changes Everything

July 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For as long as most Jamaican business owners can remember, there has been exactly one reliable way to stop trouble in one venture from sinking another: incorporate a separate company for each. A developer with four projects formed four companies. A fund manager with six portfolios wrestled with structures that the law never quite supported....

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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Backing: Why Appreciating Assets Change the Credit Mathematics

June 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar B of the BEDROCK™ Framework: what qualifies an asset to anchor a bond — and what the discipline of appreciation demands This series opened with a diagnosis: the Caribbean’s growth constraint is not a shortage of viable enterprises but a shortage of appropriate capital structure — and the corporate bond, secured by capital-appreciating...

The Vanishing Base: When AI and Automation Erode the Foundation of Professional Firms

June 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Technology is not coming for the apex first. It is dissolving the base — and how a base disappears determines whether a firm becomes a diamond or an hourglass. ISOLATE & AUGMENT · THE SECOND AND THIRD DIMENSIONS Disruption from the bottom up There is a comforting story that technology comes for the routine...

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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 Stack: Why Cash Alone Is Not a Liquidity Strategy — and the Five-Tier Architecture That Replaces It

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Tidewater Maritime Group — composite name, real engagement — is a Caribbean integrated shipping and logistics enterprise we have advised through three iterations of its capital structure. The group operates a fleet of seven container and break-bulk vessels covering inter-island routes between Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and the Eastern Caribbean, plus terminal handling operations at three...

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Valley Green Agriproducts — the name is composite, the events are real — is a Caribbean integrated agribusiness group I have spent considerable time advising. The group operates approximately twelve thousand acres of fresh produce and tree-crop cultivation across two territories, runs three primary processing facilities, employs roughly six hundred and twenty staff at...

One Company, Many Fortresses: Why Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act Changes Everything

Mobilising Caribbean Institutional Capital for Asset-Anchored Bonds

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

Backing: Why Appreciating Assets Change the Credit Mathematics

The Vanishing Base: When AI and Automation Erode the Foundation of Professional Firms

The Liquidity Stack: Why Cash Alone Is Not a Liquidity Strategy — and the Five-Tier Architecture That Replaces It

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

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August 13, 2026RESILIENCE : A Backup You Have Never Restored Is Not a Backup

August 10, 2026CAPITAL: Asset Rich and Cash Poor Is a Choice, Not a Condition

August 10, 2026GOVERNANCE :The Board That Meets Once a Year Is Not a Board

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