Over the next few weeks Dequity will provide a series of blogs of top tips for assessing investment opportunities. This is part 1 of a series of blogs to explain our assessment model a little more so that we can help both investors and owners do business....
Readmore »We are living in a new world of risk. Globalisation, shifting demographics, rapidly accelerating technological change, increased connectivity, economic uncertainty, a growing multiplicity of actors and shifting power structures combine to make operating in this world unprecedentedly complex and chal...
Readmore »ASIC warns of hybrid securities. ASIC will do what it can to ensure that both the issuers and the product sellers ensure fully explain the risks involved in investing in these hybrid securities but, as always, there may well be an element of mis-selling. Given given the long maturities of these secu...
Readmore »We believe there is a better way, one that reduces the emphasis on continual money raising through donation based activities or having to employ investment managers to punt on their behalf. We specialise in projects that have a good economic return on investment in the projects themselves. Sustainab...
Readmore »We are currently in an interesting situation with regard to interest rate caps on consumer loans in Australia. Around 18 months ago, responsibility for overseeing consumer credit was moved from State Governments to the Federal Government. Over the period since then industry participants have been th...
Readmore »For your agency it is appealing as it raises your profile, allows you to participate in projects where you might have once just had a recruitment fee. It allows you to compete with the big consulting firms on a skills and experience level. It’s a packaged, turnkey solution without the premium adde...
Readmore »I was asked by the Chairman of a very large listed company a very straightforward question, “What is a good risk manager and what do they do?”. Here’s what I thought he wanted to hear....
Readmore »Shaking Up Insolvency I was reading with great interest, the article entitled “Investors win in insolvency shake-up” in the AFR on 3 June 2011. The article discusses the Federal Government’s proposals to change the way liquidators, administrators and insolvency firms are appointed, termi...
Readmore »We recently met with the owners of a business that had been making losses for a number of years. They had been holding on for a couple of years hoping to ride out the storm, not wanting to admit the business was in trouble. I think many business owners can empathise with this situation at the moment...
Readmore »Following my previous blog on the subject of the Government’s proposed financial planning reforms, I have been asked to identify who will be the winners and who will be the losers if the changes proceed....
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