Among other sorts of equipment reclamation, Mr. Nixon's company, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offers an attractive fund-raising opportunity for charities.
But a clever chancellor can normally find money for something headline-grabbing and superficially attractive, funded by jiggery pokery in the small print.
A tactic called "incubation" has become a standard way for companies to create attractive funds with high, but misleading, past profits.
"Our only option is to clone them," he says. . Mammoth-cloning projects might act as an attractive funding magnet in a way that conservation projects of little-known rhinos cannot.
But the prospects over the next several years would be much more attractive if fund investors returned to stocks in a big way.
Africa continues to attract billions of dollars of foreign investment, but industries other than mining look more attractive to fund managers around the world.
We've seen some great companies that have done extremely well with cash flow in the range of $4 million to $7 million, and some of these companies are going to be attractive search fund acquisition candidates.
The notable increase in early discharge schemes may have arisen in part for economic reasons because they are attractive to fund in an NHS environment where there is great pressure on acute beds and an increasing emphasis on community care.
Moreover, seen from the perspective of a cost provider, it is not very attractive to fund an intervention in which every patient will need a job coach for 18 months, but with only a 50percentt chance of finding competitive employment for one day or longer.
These efficiencies, combined with the potential for pooled analyses to examine the feasibility of funding more comprehensive studies, are features that may be attractive to funding bodies.
This last option depends on the availability of a demand that is ensured on the long term by reliable partners as well as on attractive external funding.
