Title: A financial tale of two cities : Sydney and Melbourne's remarkable contest for commercial supremacy /
Authors: Bain, Jim, 1929-
Publisher: UNSW Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Finance Australia Sydney (N.S.W.); Finance Australia Melbourne (Vic.); Stockbrokers Australia Sydney (N.S.W.); Stockbrokers Australia Melbourne (Vic.); Merchant banks Australia Sydney (N.S.W.); Merchant banks Australia Melbourne (Vic.); Banks and banking Australia Sydney (N.S.W.); Banks and banking Australia Melbourne (Vic.)
Abstract: Describes the intense commercial rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne over a period of some 150 years. While Sydney was established nearly half a century before Melbourne, the great wealth generated by the Victorian goldfields soon ensured that Melbourne held an unassailable position as the continent's leading and richest centre of commerce.
Contents: Foreword / Professor Warren Hogan -- Background to this Story -- Part I. The Stockbrokers -- Chapter 1. The Reign of JB Were & Son -- Chapter 2. Melbourne Challengers: Ian Potter and AC Goode -- Chapter 3. Sydney Fields Major Players -- Chapter 4. Ord Minnett Competes with Melbourne -- Chapter 5. Bain & Company Levels the Playing Field -- Chapter 6. Specialist and Family Firms -- Chapter 7. Melbourne and Sydney Stock Exchanges -- Part II. The Merchant Banks -- Chapter 8. Growth of the Merchant Banks -- Chapter 9. Overseas Banks and Stockbrokers Dominate -- Part III. The Banks and Finance Companies -- Chapter 10. Trading with the Banks: Sydney -- Chapter 11. Trading with the Banks: Melbourne -- Chapter 12. New Banks and Finance Companies -- Chapter 13. Banking between the Two Cities -- Part IV. Other Influential Players -- Chapter 14. Fund Managers -- Chapter 15. Futures Trading in Sydney -- Chapter 16. State Governments and Power Politics -- Chapter 17. Regulators in the Finance Industry -- Epilogue: Sydney versus Melbourne.