Buy-Sell Agreement Basics: Who Gets Your Business If You Can’t Run It?

Diagram comparing a cross-purchase buy-sell agreement, where the other owners buy a departing owner's shares, with an entity redemption agreement, where the business buys them

Most business owners have a will. Far fewer have answered the question that matters most for what they’ve built: what happens to the business itself if they’re suddenly not there to run it. For any company with more than one owner, the answer usually starts with a buy-sell agreement, and for every closely held business, … Read more

Cash Reserves for Business Owners: Personal vs. Business Emergency Funds

Comparison of a personal emergency fund and a business cash reserve, the two cash reserves business owners need

There’s a specific kind of anxiety that comes from not knowing your number. Not your net worth, not your retirement number, just the smaller, more immediate one: how much cash should be sitting in the bank right now, waiting for something to go wrong. For business owners, that question has two answers, because you need … Read more

Retirement Savings by Age: Why Business Owners Need a Different Yardstick

Three hypothetical retirement outcomes for a business owner: the business sells well, sells for less or doesn't sell

One of the most common questions people quietly carry is simple: “Am I on track for retirement?” For business owners, the usual answers rarely fit. Age-based benchmarks assume a steady paycheck, an employer 401(k) and a portfolio that holds most of your wealth. Owners often have none of those. Measuring retirement savings for business owners … Read more

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