02 Mar $10.2m Agricultural Funding Success: $100,000 p.a. Savings
CASE STUDY Client Position A successful mixed farming family located in the Riverina sought to expand their existing rural holdings to support the professional succession of their...
09 Feb Bank Well, Sleep Well
By Ian Robinson Any futurist could not have forecasted the tumultuous start of 2020, nor any futuristic historian could have been prepared for the backwash and...
09 Feb Funding Success: Renegotiation on Funding facility
Client Position A South Australian client wished to purchase country in Central Queensland. The property of interest had an abundance of dry feed and provided a...
05 Jan 5000 years history of Global Interest Rates
By Ian Robinson By all accounts 2019 was an incredulous year. Inverted yield curves and negative interest rates, nationalisation of tariffs, royal commissions, legislative interventions and...
05 Jan Be kind to yourself, Be integral in your actions and take 10 steps forward
(Shock and Awe: Forster - mid north coast November 2019) As we kick off 2020 in such challenging times, it’s hard to imagine the anticipation and...
03 Dec FUNDING SUCCESS: $3.7m Mixed Farming
By Ian Robinson An established farming family felt that their requests for a restructure were not being entirely met on both pricing and terms. Although they...
03 Dec Risk Discovery and the Cost of Complacency
By John Waterman Most of us in business think of risk as a threat - something needed to be removed or minimised. If the cost of...
13 Nov Enterprising Entrepreneurs: Wakefield Ashurst Developments (“WAD”)
By Ian Robinson A key distinguishing feature of successful entrepreneurs in private enterprise is their ability to see risk adjusted returns where banks see an outright...
13 Nov Demons and Debt: Medieval Banking
By Ian Robinson A little-known fact. Lending money and charging interest was immoral, a sin and a punishable crime for many centuries. Going back thousands of years...
30 Oct 1940: Memorandum of Agreement
By Ian Robinson Its 1940 and Hay, NSW has fallen within the ominous dark red patch that notes the rainfall is at its “lowest on record”. 36...