Webinar: This Way Out: Business Exit Planning & Divestment Roadmap

December 7, 2020

Last week, Smythe Advisory's Arthur Klein presented in a webinar hosted in conjunction with the Better Business Bureau of Mainland B.C., a ...

Five Reasons Data Analytics are Important for all P&C Brokers

December 1, 2020

Data analytics is the process of analyzing raw data in order to gain meaningful insights into business conditions, with the view to make be...

October 13, 2020

What We Are Seeing: A Market Overview Going into 2020, one of the themes for the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) was uncertainty. Slow e...

September 3, 2020

While the phrase might be over used, the effects of COVID-19 are truly unprecedented. In times like these, it is natural to try to make som...

August 25, 2020

Financial forecasts and projections can be an important tool to help guide decision making for any business. To learn more about the differ...

June 25, 2020

In a previous blog article entitled, A Practical Approach to Setting Net Working Capital Targets, we looked at some practical consideration...

June 5, 2020

Last week, Smythe Advisory’s Mike Berris discussed Managing Brokerage Cash Flow during the COVID-19 crisis in a webinar hosted by the Ins...

May 13, 2020

When we started writing this piece, we were only vaguely aware of COVID-19 and had, frankly, never heard of Wuhan, China. A lot can change ...

April 28, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Understandably, part...

March 30, 2020

Someone once asked Ernest Hemingway how he went bankrupt and he responded, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” This short piece is ...