by Zac Fine | May 9, 2018 | Admin, Compliance, Mental health, NHS, Planning, Retirement
When financial or social pressure leads us to behave in ways that we don’t agree with, we are guaranteed to end up miserable. Or worse. In 2013 the BDJ published a letter from a dentist who took his own life after problems with his Primary Care Trust. In it Paul Hood...
by Jonathan Fine | Apr 18, 2018 | Disposals, Exit plan, Planning, Retirement, Tax, Wealth management
The average dentist currently works to age 74 according to Practice Exchange, the online job and course board. It’s an extrapolation from US figures that show average retirement age for dentists in 2001 as 64.8, rising to 69.3 in 2011. But it feels wrong. Granted, the...
by Jonathan Fine | Apr 2, 2017 | Acquisitions, Blog, Exit plan, Retirement, Site finding, Wealth management
Grab your lifevest, the goodwill bubble’s burst By Jonathan Fine. April 2, 2017. Last week I read a barnstorming blog about what’s happening at the top of the dental corporate food chain by Sachin Nandha, a venture capitalist from Leicester who wants to build a...
by Jonathan Fine | Mar 8, 2017 | Acquisitions, Blog, Exit plan, Retirement, Site finding
Buying? Stop! 8 out of 10 practices are in the wrong location By Jonathan Fine. March 8, 2017. An incredible eight out of 10 practices are located in the wrong place. They pass muster as viable businesses today, but the wave of retailisation churning through the...
by Jonathan Fine | Jan 11, 2017 | Blog, Exit plan, Retirement, Site finding, Wealth management
You snooze you lose: guarantee your optimum exit before it’s too late By Jonathan Fine. January 11, 2017. The signs have been around for a while: retirement is getting trickier for dentists. It’s a bad time for pensions anyway thanks to historically low interest rates...