While writing my PhD, I published an analysis of the pattern and consequences of crises experienced by corporate Australia during the 1990s. There were about six each year, half involved operational issues, and product defects made wholesale and retail trade the most crisis-prone sector. The most interesting finding for me was that over a quarter […]
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Introducing Les Coleman
Les Coleman trained as an engineer, and spent 28 years in senior management positions with resources, manufacturing and finance companies in Australia and overseas. During this time he was trustee of three superannuation funds and director of a dozen unlisted companies, along with four years as a columnist with The Australian. He then completed a PhD on […]
Markets: It’s a long list of problems– how did we get here?
You wouldn’t be alone in thinking the world has turned upside down. Not only is there a raft of local and geo-political issues that can have dramatic effects on financial markets, but the financial world has its own problems which are on scale commensurate with the political ones. Politics, markets, and economies are all blurring […]