Discover how to grow your company with strategic business development processes involving effective strategies, critical steps, and essential skills for success.

If you dig deep enough, the trade-off isn't exactly unclear.

Publicly traded business development companies (BDCs) are growing in popularity for their astounding dividend income. Like real estate investment trusts (REITs), BDCs must distribute 90% of their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brett uses “second-level thinking” to find dividend stocks to buy. Wall Street suits tend to avoid business development companies ...

One of the testiest exchanges at a company conference call in recent years took place during the fourth-quarter 2024 results presentation by Prospect Capital Corp., a struggling business development ...

Amid the coverage of Blue Owl Capital Inc.’s restriction on client redemptions from a business development company called Blue Owl Capital Corp. II, investors should take a quick step back to ...

Business development is a critical function of any organization—small or larger enterprises. And over the years, one thing I've noticed is that businesses that are sustainable continually and ...

Many business owners face challenges such as rising costs, slow growth, and difficulty finding the right technology part ...

The flow of investment money going into business development companies (also called “BDCs”) has been nothing short of phenomenal. Over the past five years, the amount of assets in these closed-end ...

The VanEck BDC Income ETF offers targeted exposure to high-yield business development companies (BDCs). BIZD focuses on income-generating firms that lend to underserved small and mid-sized businesses.

BDC ETFs BIZD and PBDC yield 13.65% and 11.50%, respectively, nearly double JEPI's 8% with a meaningful tax edge for income investors. BDC dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate (max 20%), ...

Because of Blue Owl, concerns over private BDCs have spilled over to push down prices of publicly traded BDCs - many of which trade at large discounts to their reported asset valuations Stocks of ...