03 Nov Rates are Rising
By Brad Sewell This is the first in a series of emails from different Robinson Sewell Partners directors regarding the upward movement of interest rates currently...
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...
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...
09 Jun Australian farming by numbers
By Ian Robinson Let us take stock on just how big agricultural business in Australia at the farm gate level. It is not just a checkerboard...
28 Apr Bridging Finance: What is it and how does it work?
By Ian Robinson An opportunity suddenly materialises in your business that cannot be missed. It holds strategic importance and seizing the opportunity will magnify the potential...
17 Feb Agri-finance Case Study 1 February 2021
CLIENT POSITION Our clients are winemakers, making both their own wine and contract winemaking for others. They rented a premises which had served them well over...
28 Jan Agri Finance Funding Success Story 1 – January 2021
CLIENT POSITION Loan (limit) $10,000,000 Enterprise: Agribusiness: Dryland Farming Lender Type: Tier 1 Banking: Refinance / Restructure Location: ...
24 Nov Agri-Finance Funding Success Stories
SCENARIO ONE Client A Loan Limit: $7,275,000 Enterprise: Agri (horticulture, dryland cropping) Type: ...
14 Oct In case you missed it: RBA position on Interest Rates
Sarah Turner from the AFR (dd 10 July 2020) noted that the Reserve Bank of Australia has given its strongest signal yet that it will...
16 Sep Discovering Your Inner Honey Badger
By Ian Robinson If your muscular nicotinic cholinergic receptor has evolved so it will not bind to a-neurotoxins, then you are lucky that you will be...