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Adjusted Until It Flatters: Why Caribbean CEOs Must Test Every EBITDA Adjustment

September 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Caribbean CEOs Must Read Ratios, Not Just Results IN BRIEF Almost no business is sold, refinanced or valued on the EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) in its accounts. It is valued on an adjusted figure, after owner costs, one-off events and planned savings have been added back. Some adjustments are legitimate...

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A Seven-Year Loan Against a Thirty-Year Asset

September 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Caribbean enterprises are not failing because they are unprofitable. They are failing because of how they were financed — and the structure that fixes it already exists. Introducing The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ There is a conversation that takes place in this region more often than anyone would like to admit, and it always...

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The Gateway: Regulators, Consents and the Path to SAC Registration in Jamaica

July 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Article 4 walked through the interior of the segregated accounts company — the linking, the recourse rules, the priority ladder. This article stands at the front door. Becoming a segregated accounts company (SAC) is not a box ticked on an incorporation form; it is a supervised admission, designed by the regional model on which...

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Inside the Ring-Fence: How Statutory Segregation Actually Works in a SAC

July 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first three articles in this series established why Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act, 2024 matters: it converts asset segregation from a contractual promise into a property of the law, drawing on a quarter-century of Caribbean cell-company practice. This article — the first of the series’ second arc, on the rules themselves — moves...

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Disclosure: The Price of Institutional Capital | BEDROCK™ Framework

June 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar D of the BEDROCK™ Framework: transparency as the admission ticket to institutional pricing — offering standards, reporting cadence, and compliance certification The first three pillars of the BEDROCK™ Framework built an instrument. Backing selected an appreciating asset and proved its pathway; Engineering gave the asset a structure — seniority, tenor, security, covenants, reserves....

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Provisions Are Predictions: Why Caribbean Boards Must Govern Reserves Before the Audit

May 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

This is the third of four papers in The Caribbean Actuarial Imperative, an editorial series from Dawgen Global — an independent, integrated, multidisciplinary professional services firm spanning eleven service disciplines across more than fifteen Caribbean territories. The first paper introduced the Long‑Horizon Test for identifying the board decisions whose financial consequences extend beyond the quarterly...

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From Start-Up to Scale-Up: What the Future of Venture Capital Means for the Caribbean

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The global venture capital industry is undergoing a structural reset. Venture-backed companies are staying private for longer, exits are slowing, liquidity is becoming harder to achieve, secondary markets are emerging as an important private-market tool, and artificial intelligence is reshaping how companies are built, valued, funded, and scaled. For the Caribbean, the lesson...

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Capital Structure Is Strategy: Introducing the Dawgen C.A.P.I.T.A.L. Architecture™ Framework

February 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Capital structure is not simply a financing decision—it is a strategic design choice that shapes resilience, growth capacity, and enterprise value. Dawgen Global’s C.A.P.I.T.A.L. Architecture™ framework is a disciplined, repeatable methodology for diagnosing an organisation’s funding needs and constraints, selecting the most suitable mix of loans and/or corporate bonds, and engineering terms (tenor,...

Financial Strategy & Value Creation

A Seven-Year Loan Against a Thirty-Year Asset

Disclosure: The Price of Institutional Capital | BEDROCK™ Framework

Provisions Are Predictions: Why Caribbean Boards Must Govern Reserves Before the Audit

From Start-Up to Scale-Up: What the Future of Venture Capital Means for the Caribbean

Capital Structure Is Strategy: Introducing the Dawgen C.A.P.I.T.A.L. Architecture™ Framework

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October 14, 2026Find the Core That Earns: A 100-Day Business Turnaround Strategy

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