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Whole dollars from $100,000 to $2,000,000.

At least $30,000 is held back.

Illustrative allowance only.

Why hold back cash? A fund may need liquidity for expenses and obligations. This illustration reserves the larger of your chosen percentage or $30,000.

Why allow for costs? The purchase price is only part of an acquisition. The chosen percentage is a generic allowance, not a quote.

This is arithmetic, not a cash flow plan or fund strategy. Running costs and personal circumstances are outside this calculator.

Illustrative result

Up to

$679,245

as an arithmetic purchase ceiling, before any suitability assessment

Fund balance$800,000
Cash buffer held back (10%)$80,000
Usable after buffer$720,000
Purchase price ceiling$679,245
Illustrative purchase costs (6%)$40,755

$100k fund balance$2m fund balance
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