Introduction

SM & LB Consulting Ltd has taken it upon its self to assist in the development and growth of the small and medium scale enterprises (SME’s) in the country.
The need for this growth is being necessitated by SM & LB Consulting Ltd to positively contribute to the growth of the Nigerian economy through SME development. For these SME’s to increase participation and to improve on their present state of operation, they need to meet with some specific requirements that give them credibility and to raise investor’s confidence in Their Companies.
SME’s are seen as the true means that can build a sustainable and vibrant Nigerian economy. The development of the SME’s sector is the future of the growth of the national economy; this is what makes us passionate about working in this sector.
To achieve this goal, we believe that a medium which will pool funds from the surplus to the deficit sectors without the normal time wasting and expensive hassles needs to be introduced and a need to adopt a Private Investors Forum, an initiative that has long been awaited.

WHAT IS THE PIF ABOUT?

What is Private Investor Forum?
PIF is an on-line facility where entrepreneurs and businesses can `display' their funding requirements and where investors can in turn locate potential investment opportunities. It also enables investors to register and display their investment objectives.

How does it work?
This is simply an avenue through which companies, organizations and fund seekers advertise their products and services, the nature of their businesses the prospects and most importantly their structure and financial needs with a clearly laid out business plan and projection forecast, where interested investors with funds takes advantage of the investment opportunities and make arrangements to meet with the promoters (owners) and a business relationship is built, it is a financing avenue for fund seekers and investment providers for investors.

What are the benefits of using PIF?
The PIF is some sort of a notice board, bringing together investors, entrepreneurs and businesses thereby creating a single and professionally managed destination where financing needs and investor details can be displayed.

What we will offer investors?
It offers an efficient and well-managed site, which enables them to either; search for specific types of businesses or, browse the websites database for investment opportunities. They can also register in the Investor database.

How much does it cost to join?
To register on PIF is very simple and at a very minimum annual cost. The use of the most advanced database technology ensures that costs are kept at an absolute minimum. As the facility provided grows there may be additional (optional) services offered which will/may attract more charges.

What securities are offered to fund-raisers and investors?
PIF is a facility for locating investment opportunities and investors. It does not carry out any checks on the suitability of either those looking for finance or potential and actual investors. Under the PIF, we are not authorized to conduct investment business and do not offer advice to fund-seekers or investors (it only brings them together).

Through its comprehensive fund-seeker and investor database, The PIF aims to act as a hub for locating both individuals and companies requiring funding, and investors looking for a home to match their investment capital.

The database for fund seekers has been designed to offer maximum flexibility with each entry containing the most relevant information about each business.

Investors will have the ability to identify and contact businesses that match their investment strategies. They can also register their investment objectives in the investor database on the site, thereby enabling them to be contacted directly by those looking for funding.

Private Investor Forum has a freely searchable and comprehensively easy to navigate database that makes locating investors and investment opportunities a very simple process.

The objective of PIF
To provide a well managed facility dedicated to displaying details of businesses and entrepreneurs who require funding, and understanding, sympathetic and willing investors.

Over the years, reoccurring results have continued to highlight the significant void that exists between fund-seekers and investors. Raising finance can become prohibitively time consuming and expensive with the potential for sound business ideas to be lost, forgotten or handicapped due to the lack of adequate short, medium, or long-term investment capital.

PIF aims to bridge this gap by providing a medium where investors and fund-seekers can identify a suitable investment partner.