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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
Phil Ruthven
details the alarming rise in government debt across the globe but argues that Australians have less to lose sleep over.
Why debt matters
Unserviceable debt in the world’s finance industry, with total assets in excess of US$300 trillion, gave us the global financial crisis (...
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CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
John M Green
believes business people should start thinking more like novelists.
Foresight saga
“In hindsight...” Painful, often embarrassing confessions sometimes begin with those words. It is only in the future that you know how smart you are in the present. It’s why hubris is such a ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2010
Greg Medcraft
discusses ASIC’s efforts to build confidence in securitisation markets.
Building confidence in securitisation markets
With the darkest days of the global financial crisis now passed, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is actively working with...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2009
Six months ago, infrastructure development was stuck at the amber light.
Domini Stuart
discovers that the traffic is moving again although many road blocks remain.
On the move again
Key points
Stimulus packages are kicking in
Capital markets are recovering
Repayment risks abound
Pr...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2009
Giles Parkinson
provides some tips on how directors of SMEs can improve their organisations’ attractiveness as buyers start trickling back into the market.
Becoming sale ready
Becoming sale ready
Identify who your likely buyers are
Anticipate what they will be looking for
Ensure rel...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2009
Zilla Efrat
asks some property experts whether now is the right time to dip one’s toes back into the property market.
Safe as houses?
Like everything else in its wake, the global financial crisis (GFC) has left its mark on the property market.
As Ian Dore, managing director of Dore Prope...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2009
Scott Hawker
reviews the market for funding and raising capital and provides some top tips for directors of SMEs on how to tackle it.
The SME funding landscape
The top end of the corporate market has been hyperactive in the past nine months, raising new capital to address balance ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
The number of companies going into liquidation has surged.
Tony Featherstone
reveals some of the lessons learnt from those at the coalface of corporate collapse.
Avoiding corporate collapse
More directors will be forced this year to make a life-changing decision: let t...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2009
Australia might miss a depression and possibly even a recession. But
Phil Ruthven
argues that there is no room for complacency given the many dangers lurking in the medium term.
Recessions and depressions in Australia
Very few Australians have experienced multiple recessions, let...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Domini Stuart
reports on the dilemmas that mark-to-market accounting rules are creating in the current volatile economic climate.
Unfair value?
An instrument of clarity and transparency, reporting impartially on market performance after it has occurred? Or an instrument of doom, promotin...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Professor Richard Heaney
reviews the economic challenges directors are likely to face next year.
Economic life in 2009
The recent drama in the world’s financial markets may still have some way to go. The US regulators are dealing with the subprime crisis, although recent inter-ban...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Tough staffing decisions may have to be made in 2009.
Kevin Chandler
provides some tips on how to survive them.
When the axe drops
Earlier this month, the Finance Sector Union predicted that up to 10,000 jobs could be lost in the next 12 to 18 months. Many of these jobs will be in middle...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2008
A group of directors escaped the boardroom on AICD’s WA Division annual Outback Forum – and enjoyed some surprises and new insights along the way.
An outback reality check
It’s one thing to read about the dimensions of the Super Pit, Australia biggest gold open pit mine...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2008
It has been a tumultuous year with crashing stock markets, a global financial meltdown and talk of a depression in the US in 2009.
Phil Ruthven
asks if we should be worried.
Should we be nervous now?
Australia has relatively few financial and economic issues of the sort tearing t...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2008
In the wake of the global credit crunch,
Janine Mace
argues that credit management should be fast moving up on the board’s agenda.
As the screws tighten
With the outlook for the economy more than gloomy, some company directors must be wondering ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
With equity markets in turmoil,
Phil Ruthven
explains why looking to the long-term is important for directors.
The lowdown of investments
2008 is one of those years that most fund managers dread. The music stopped in the stock market in the last quarter of 2007, and th...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
John M Green
suggests what directors should do when their gut tells them otherwise.
When everyone is doing it
Everyone alive today is breathing. So respiration must be a good thing and we should all do it. But it is unsafe to apply that logic of ‘everyone does it, so it must be go...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
QBE has thrived where so many others have failed. QBE chairman John Cloney reveals his formula for M&A success to
Zilla Efrat
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The great shopper
No! It wasn’t hard for John Cloney and QBE to walk away from a proposed merger with Insurance Australia Group (IAG). “W...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
Nearly three years down the track,
Domini Stuart
finds that International Financial Reporting Standards pose several challenges for Australian companies.
IFRS 3 years on
The quality of our home-grown accounting standards was recognised internationally. However, with Australia com...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
Lowering barriers to capital flow
Australia is a substantial net capital importer. We draw extensively on foreign savings to expand the capital stock that is our foundation for future economic growth. At the same time, Australians and their funds managers are investing more overseas, especially as ...