A dignified buy-out

Taking the advice of Benjamin Franklin that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" CIBC has latched on to a new source of stable cashflow - funeral services.

       
Franklin: an expert on death
and taxes

Taking the advice of Benjamin Franklin that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” CIBC has latched on to a new source of stable cashflow – funeral services.

The Canadian bank has underwritten (or should that be undertaken?) a leveraged debt package that backs the £220 million management buy-out of Dignity Funeral Services, the UK’s largest such company, which arranges 75,000 funerals and 40,000 cremations a year.

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