There are various reasons for selling shares in a company, including to raise additional investment, realise the value of your investment or transfer ownership to someone else. There are different types of share sales that can take place to facilitate these goals, including issuing new shares in a company you have an interest in, selling some or all of your shares back to the company or transferring your shares to another person. Whatever the aims and type of a share sale, there is a strict legal process you must go through to protect your investment and the company while maintaining strict regulatory compliance. Key steps for selling company shares Reviewing articles of association and shareholders’ agreements A company’s articles of association and/or its shareholders’ agreement should set out the agreed process for selling shares in the company. Such provisions will need to be carefully reviewed with the help of an experienced corporate lawyer before moving forward with a share sale...
You can compound your wealth by investing It’s always a good thing to take action to grow your personal wealth. What’s even better is using the money you have made to increase the amount by which your wealth increases. This is known as compounding. In simple terms, it means that the money you have made already will help you earn more money in the future. To take an example, let’s say you manage to get a 5 per cent annual return on a £10,000 investment. Assuming you keep your gains invested here’s what you’d make over the years. Year Zero - £10000 Year One - £10500 Year Ten - £16289 Year Forty - £70400 In this same example, we’d start in year zero with £10,000 and it would grow in value by 5 per cent to £10,500 over the course of a year — a £500 increase. But if the investment increased by 5 per cent again the following year, the value would increase by 5 per cent of £10,500 — £525 — which is more than it did in the first year. As time goes by, the amount by which your wealth increases ...
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