Farmers who are down on their financial luck will be able to go to mediation before being forced into receivership by banks.
A Farm Debt Mediation Bill will soon be introduced into Parliament which will require creditors to offer mediation to farmers who default on payments before they take any enforcement action.
The bill arises out of concern there is a lot of debt in the primary sector. Last year agriculture debt stood at $62 billion, with dairy $41.5b, sheep and beef $14.1b and “other” including horticulture $6.3b. Four years ago dairy farmer debt was $34b.
In announcing on Monday that the bill had been given the go-ahead by Cabinet, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor said farm debt had ballooned out by 270 per cent compared with 20 years ago.
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“Farmers are especially vulnerable to business down-turns as a result of conditions that are often outside their control, like weather, market price volatility, pests and diseases like Mycoplasma bovis.”
The estimated cost to set-up the scheme is $350,000, and the estimated annual cost for administering the scheme is $250,000 to $300,000. This will be met from the existing MPI baseline.
It is expected each case of mediation will cost about $6000. This will be split between the lender and the farmer.
Federated Farmers and the Bankers Association both back the bill. Neither could provide statistics for the numbers of farmers who go into receivership every year.
A similar private member’s bill in the name of NZ First primary spokesman Mark Patterson was introduced last year but was withdrawn at select committee stage because it was considered unworkable.
O’Connor said the bill was “pragmatic”.
“The guts of it is early intervention – where either the farmer or the bank have an ability to go and seek mediation, which is a far better option than forced foreclosure,” he said.
The genesis of the bill goes back to the 1990s when NZ First had attempted to introduce a similar measure. O’Connor said Patterson’s bill had been reworked as a Coalition Government piece of legislation.
One of the reasons why the bill failed to advance last year was the mechanism proposed came too late in the process, by which time a farmer was already under water.
Last year the Reserve Bank warned that while financial stress in the dairy sector was falling, a small number of farmers were struggling to pay down debt.
The numbers of farmers who were at least 90 days overdue with their loans was 2 per cent out of 8059 owner-operators and 3911 sharemilkers.
That figure was an improvement on the worst period for non-performing loans in 2011, when it had risen to 4.7 per cent.
Two years ago 12.7 per cent of dairy farms were “potentially stressed” but that has dropped to 8.6 per cent.
Real Estate Institute spokesman Brian Peacocke said it was difficult to gather accurate statistic

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The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession?that the total amount of debt for American households doubled between 2000 and 2007 to $14 trillion? Definitely not. Armed with clear and powerful evidence, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression, as well as the current economic malaise in Europe, were caused by a large run-up in household debt followed by a significantly large drop in household spending.

Though the banking crisis captured the public’s attention, Mian and Sufi argue strongly with actual data that current policy is too heavily biased toward protecting banks and creditors. Increasing the flow of credit, they show, is disastrously counterproductive when the fundamental problem is too much debt. As their research shows, excessive household debt leads to foreclosures, causing individuals to spend less and save more. Less spending means less demand for goods, followed by declines in production and huge job losses. How do we end such a cycle? With a direct attack on debt, say Mian and Sufi.  More aggressive debt forgiveness after the crash helps, but as they illustrate, we can be rid of painful bubble-and-bust episodes only if the financial system moves away from its reliance on inflexible debt contracts. As an example, they propose new mortgage contracts that are built on the principle of risk-sharing, a concept that would have prevented the housing bubble from emerging in the first place.

Thoroughly grounded in compelling economic evidence, House of Debt offers convincing answers to some of the most important questions facing the modern economy today: Why do severe recessions happen? Could we have prevented the Great Recession and its consequences? And what actions are needed to prevent such crises going forward?

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Examine the high yield market for a clear understanding of this evolving asset class

High Yield Debt is the one-stop resource for wealth advisors seeking an in-depth understanding of this misunderstood asset class. The high yield market provides a diverse opportunity set, including fixed and floating rate debt, high and low quality debt issues and both short- and long-term duration; but many fail to understand that not all high yield exposure is the same, and that different market segments and strategies work best at different points in the economic cycle. This guide addresses the confusion surrounding high yield debt. You’ll find the information you need to decide whether or not to buy in to a high yield fund, and how to evaluate the opportunities and risks without getting lost in the jargon.

The U.S. corporate high yield market is worth $2.4 trillion—more than the stock markets of most developed countries. Market growth has increased the number of funds with high yield exposure, as well as the types of debt products available for investment. This book breaks it down into concrete terms, providing the answers advisors need to effectively evaluate the opportunities on offer.

Understand the high yield asset class Learn the debt structures, performance and defaults Evaluate risk and investment opportunities Penetrate the jargon to make sense of high yield investment

Over 300 publicly traded funds provide exposure to U.S. high yield, but despite it’s size and ubiquity, understanding of the asset class as a whole remains somewhat of a rarity—even among participants. A lack of transparency is partially to blame, but the market’s evolution over the past fifteen years is the larger issue. High Yield Debt explains the modern high yield market in real terms, providing a much-needed resource for the savvy investor.

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Debt Consolidation is Modernize Financial Slavery

Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently—but that doesn’t mean that the problem has gone away. The national debt recently topped $17.5 trillion, and is projected to reach $27 trillion by 2024. Worse yet, if you include the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, the U.S. real indebtedness exceeds $83 trillion. Despite these undeniable facts, politicians from both parties continue to avoid making the difficult decisions that must be made.

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone account for 48 percent of federal spending today, a portion that will only increase more rapidly with the newest entitlement program, Obamacare. The truth is that there is no way to address America’s debt problem without reforming entitlements.

Going for Broke provides a critical, in-depth analysis of these entitlement programs and lays out much needed solutions for real reform.