| Description |
xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Extraordinary Eighties -- 2. Tricontinental before the Boom -- 3. Ian Johns -- 4. The Boom Years: 1986-1987 -- 5. After the Crash -- 6. The Bubble Bursts -- 7. After Integration -- 8. The Theory and Practice of Lending: The Skase Case -- 9. The Aftermath: The Royal Commission and the Recoveries |
| Summary |
Tricontinental is an absorbing and readable account explaining a slice of financial history, the repercussions of which continue to top the nation's agenda. As a cautionary tale, it goes to the heart of vital questions about the extent and methods of responsible supervision of the financial system that shapes our economy |
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The astonishing and alarming story of Tricontinental is also the story of the roller-coaster ride of Australian finance throughout the 1980s. This book charts what happened inside Tricontinental, from its creation to its collapse. How did it come to be involved with high-risk clients and with entrepreneurs like Alan Bond and Christopher Skase? What led to the increasing involvement of the Victorian government? What happened after the crash of 1987? Why did big businesses, built on expensive credit, crumble, with a thud that continues to reverberate throughout the Australian financial system? The Tricontinental merchant bank was created in 1969; by 1983 the State Bank of Victoria had a 25 per cent shareholding. Two years later the State Bank acquired the remaining shares. But four years later again, in the wake of losses estimated to be more than one billion dollars, Tricontinental was no more. In 1990 the State Bank of Victoria was sold to the Commonwealth Bank |
| Analysis |
Company management |
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Financial institution failures |
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Investment banks |
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Royal Commissions |
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State Bank of Victoria |
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State issue |
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Tricontinental Holdings |
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Victoria |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322) and index |
| Subject |
Victoria. Royal Commission into the Tricontinental Group of Companies.
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Tricontinental Holdings Limited.
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Tricontinental Holdings
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Tricontinental
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Bank failures -- Australia -- Victoria.
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Merchant banks -- Australia -- Victoria.
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| Author |
Gross, Dick, 1954-
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| LC no. |
95201630 |
| ISBN |
0522846580 |
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