Breaking the Bank
Balance sheet strength, management acuity, and regulatory systems matter more for financial services firms than other stock sectors. Financial...
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Weekly Impressions
The key company announcement during the week in Australia came from Woodside Petroleum, that it had provided Oil Search a confidential, all scrip,...
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Dissecting Quality: When Does Management Quality and Corporate Governance Matter Most?
Most active funds tout their ability to discriminate between good and poor quality management, and accordingly weight their portfolios towards...
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Corporate Loan Seasoning in Chinese and Australian Banks
It is the chunky corporate loans that are most bothersome to banks, as an economy slows.This is one reason that risk-weightings tend to be fairly...
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Unintended Consequences of a Greek Default
Credit spreads for Deutsche Bank and BNP are rising vertically. This is mostly in anticipation of a Greek default.BIS statistics show that Germany,...
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