Business Exit

If you had to sell your business tomorrow, would you know what it is really worth? For many business owners, their business is a significant part of their retirement plan. Yet its value and [...]

Selling your business is often seen as the finish line. But in reality, the value of your business is shaped years before a buyer ever comes to the table. Many business owners assume a profitable [...]

Legacy Beyond Wealth is a podcast series by Providend that invites you into the heartfelt, often complex conversations behind legacy planning. In this series, we follow the story of Richard and [...]

Legacy Beyond Wealth is a podcast series by Providend that invites you into the heartfelt, often complex conversations behind legacy planning. In this series, we follow the story of Richard and [...]

I’ve spent most of my life in finance — auditing companies, managing numbers, and advising business owners. But a few years ago, I did something different. I opened a restaurant with my [...]

In January 2021, I began thinking more seriously about my firm’s succession plan. Providend has been operating for almost a quarter of a century, and the founding team is now in our mid-fifties [...]

The Case: Mr Wong, aged 58, owns a business that provides total instrumental and safety solutions for the Semiconductor, Pharmaceutical, and Oil & Gas sectors. After years of successful [...]

As Asia’s leading fee-only wealth advisory firm, we understand the challenges faced by business owners who are focused on growing their enterprises and may not have had the chance to develop a [...]

As the leading fee-only wealth advisory firm in Asia, we understand the challenges faced by our clients who are business owners with a lot on their minds to grow their businesses and may not have [...]

The owner of a precision engineering company, Mr Tan (fictional name), is 58 years old and plans to retire in five years. His company has grown over the years and is one of the Enterprise 50 [...]

As the leading fee-only wealth advisory firm in Asia, our Founder and CEO, Christopher’s Business Times article discusses the critical mistake that business owners often make, when they do [...]

One of the biggest assets on entrepreneurs’ personal balance sheets is their business. Yet, I have observed that many do not integrate it with their own personal wealth planning, depending solely [...]

“What would happen to my firm, Providend, and my loved ones if I did not make it home?” In this episode, I will share the two main concerns of business owners and the need to plan for your [...]