Welcome to our Article "Where Have All the Umbrellas Gone?".

The enclosed article explores the current state of the debt markets and the forces that are driving the debt markets to increase rates and administer tougher credit on SME's within Australia.

The article will appear in the first edition of a new magazine Smart Capital (www.smartcapitalmagazine.com.au), a magazine launched by the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board - Australia's largest unlisted securities platform (see www.assob.com.au). The magazine is being delivered to a national subscriber base of investors, as well as the key people in more than 250 of Australia's leading venture capital firms, private equity groups, fund managers, government bodies and institutional investors.

The enclosed article just skims the surface of the debt markets , so if you have any further queries or require any further assistance in raising debt finance for your company or your clients' companies, then please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be pleased to help. Call us on

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