14 Sep Interest Rate Direction – RBA
Where do we stand regarding current interest rates and future direction? A dive into the recent RBA announcements on Tuesday 7th September reveals the tone. A...
14 Sep Why Farming Assets Never Pay for Themselves but Create Substantial Wealth
By Ian Robinson A common outcry amongst the farming community is that the price of farms seems out of context to the income they can generate. ...
01 Sep Case Study August 2021
The client had a large portion of their loan fixed at nearly 7%. They watched the rates falling and felt frustrated that they couldn’t participate...
01 Sep The Power of Negotiation
By Deb Purvis You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate Quote: ‘Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another...
11 Aug Oils Ain’t Oils
By Michael Stout In the 80’s we had the mechanic Sol, who worked for ‘the gangster’ on our TV explaining to him that not all oils...
11 Aug Kissing the Death Zone
By Ian Robinson I had arrived at the Yellow Band, a formidable and geologically distinguished cliff of yellow rock and ice, just as the pink hue...
21 Jul Beware the “Line Fee”
We are seeing an increasing number of bank quotes where the ‘Line Fee’ represents a major portion of the interest rate. For the uninitiated, a ‘Line...
21 Jul 1991 – 2021, What’s changed for an Agribusiness Bank Manager?
Why are deals taking longer to settle in the agricultural lending sector compared to in 1991 when I started in the industry? With 30 years agricultural...
06 Jul Robinson Sewell Partners’, Deb Purvis, wins State award
Over the last 4 years, Deb Purvis has saved her clients hundreds of thousands of dollars. And now, the agribusiness finance specialist has won big,...
06 Jul Thinking of being an Agribusiness broker?
By Deb Purvis Here's 8 things you need to think about if you decide to go it alone. 1. Leave yourself enough time. Securing agribusiness finance isn't something...