23 JULY 1932, page 25

Stronger Ra La Nce-sheets.

The most favourable feature affecting balance-sheets . has been the recent rise in security values: At the end of ; last year it became necessary to provide rather substan- tial......

Bank Shares For Investments

Tin: record of our home banks during a period of un- exampled depression and crisis is one which has not been approached by the banks of any other country. America has witnessed......

Ci Itlient Yields.

Stability of dividends has always been 'an important part of banking policy. For that reason payments have been on a conservative basis and normally unaffected by minor......

Effect Of Death Duties On Stock Quotations.

Sales of this magnitude could not fail to exert a de- pressing influence on quotations, reducing the total value Upon which death duties were payable and, consequently, the......

Life Assurance Restores Value Of Estates.

Theoretical consideration supports the figures. - With differential taxation the size of individual estates has a twofold significance, nainely, Volume and the Tate of tax......