Retirement assets such as individual retirement accounts cannot be used to secure loans , but even they may indirectly count in a borrower's favor as evidence of astuteness .
Which survive now depends on their industry, their balance-sheets and how easily they can tap government loans, guarantees and aid, which amount to $8trn in big Western economies alone.
The government clarified Friday that they were describing an existing program run by the province's Entrepreneurship Guarantee Fund, which guarantees loans for first-time founders.