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Navigating Business Loans: When and How to Secure Funding for Your Startup

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Coming up with the right idea, leaving your familiar job, regular paycheck, and sweet benefits and finding the funding to get the venture off the ground is usually fairly stressful. Let's dig into that last issue, funding, because it can be the most challenging of all. This is true of start-up funding. Here are your best bets.

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Can You Get a Mortgage Without Home Insurance?

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Mortgage lenders require proof of insurance to give you a loan Mortgage lenders want to make sure they have collateral for the loan. Since the house is collateral for the mortgage loan , lenders require homeowners to have sufficient insurance coverage on the property before they will agree to provide funds to buy it.

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Blackstone Nears Completion of $400m Private Credit Fund Raise

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Blackstone is in the final stages of raising about $400m for its Blackstone Private Credit Fund (BCRED) to secure additional investment advantage, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Last year, it blocked investor withdrawals from BREIT after requests exceeded a preset 5% of the net asset value of the fund.

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Everything You Need to Know About an SBA Loan

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Collateral: In many cases, you'll need to provide assets to secure the loan, especially for larger amounts. The application process involves a lot of back and forth, providing documents, answering questions, and perhaps securing appraisals for any collateral. This can be equipment, real estate, or other valuable business assets.

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‘Collateral damage’: ESG funds pulled down by tumble in tech shares

Financial Times: Moral Money

Funds focused on environmental and governance issues have heavy allocations to tech sector

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These 3 Dividend Stocks Yield Investors 9.6% or More. Here's Which 1 I'd Buy First.

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Riley Financial (NASDAQ: RILY) , Blackstone Secured Lending Fund (NYSE: BXSL) , and Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). Blackstone Secured Lending Fund invests in underserved companies and sports a 11.2% BDCs like the Blackstone Secured Lending Fund invest in middle-market companies that banks have neglected to invest in over recent decades.

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This Is the Average American's Personal Loan Payment. How Do You Compare?

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With an unsecured loan, a borrower does not have to put anything of value up as collateral. On the other hand, a secured loan requires collateral, such as artwork, a classic car, undeveloped property, or any other asset that a bank can take possession of and sell if the borrower fails to make payments.