The first objection to long-dated interest-only capital is that nobody ever repays it. The answer is a reserve, a glidepath and an election made two years early — and the arithmetic is less comfortable than the concept. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Seven · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ Every conversation about long-dated...
A leverage covenant can be breached without borrowing a dollar. It breaches because earnings fell — and then it accelerates the obligation at the precise moment the company cannot meet it. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Six · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ A company has a difficult year. Revenue holds but margin...
Most owner-managed companies are under-financed by their own accounting. The remuneration policy that saves tax also makes the business look smaller than it is — and lenders price what they can see. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Five · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ An owner is told that his company can raise three...
A company with two billion dollars of assets can discover it has seven hundred million of security. The gap is not an accounting error. It is five questions nobody asked. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Four · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ An owner sits down to list what his company owns, because he...
One side holds duration it cannot use. The other needs duration it cannot obtain. In this region, they have never been properly introduced. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Three · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ A pension fund paying benefits in 2050 has an obligation twenty-five years long. To meet it without taking a...
A company can cut its dividend by three quarters and still be extracting more than the year before. One number catches it. The covenants in most instruments do not. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Two · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ A board meets to approve the accounts. The finance director reports that in a...
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...
The bank loan is one tool in the financing toolbox. Across the Caribbean, it is treated as the whole toolbox — and growth is being rationed to fit it. The Problem, Lived “Natalie” built her Kingston agro-processing company — sauces and seasonings — from a home kitchen to a small factory over nine years. Then...
The series finale — a structured way to measure whether your enterprise is ready to bring an asset-anchored bond Eleven articles ago, this series began with a frustration familiar to every Caribbean enterprise of substance: the gap between the capital such a business deserves and the capital the market actually offers it. We named the...
The appreciating assets that can anchor a Caribbean bond — across tourism, energy, logistics, agriculture, and beyond This series has built an instrument, mapped its demand, and addressed the market that must carry it. One question remains on the supply side, and it is the most concrete of all: where, across the Caribbean economy,...
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