{"id":4288,"date":"2023-03-06T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/divestment\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:16:32","slug":"divestment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/divestment\/","title":{"rendered":"Divestment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDivestment is a process of selling off a division or a unit of a business in part or in full. The purpose of divestment can be to generate funds from the sale of the assets or to exit the business line that no longer meets the expectations or expertise needed. The government recently announced the divestment of many of the PSUs either in part or in full. The recent LIC IPO was part of the government Divestment plan.<\/p>\n<h2>Primary reasons for divestment<\/h2>\n<p>The primary reasons for divestment can be<br \/>\nTo meet the immediate need for funds<br \/>\nTo exit a loss-making division and concentrate on the primary business<br \/>\nAccess to funds for better investment opportunities Improving returns to shareholders<br \/>\nMeeting mandatory obligations set by the government or any legislation.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divestment is a process of selling off a division or a unit of a business in part or in full. The purpose of divestment can be to generate funds from the sale of the assets or to exit the business line that no longer meets the expectations or expertise needed. The government recently announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing-essentials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}