Other People's Money: The Complete Story of the Extraordinary Collapse of HIH

by Andrew Main

Sets out the sorry story of HIH's failure, the Royal Commission which followed, and the spending sprees HIH's directors embarked on. This book takes in the developments since Adler's guilty plea, and the consequent sentencing of Adler and Williams.

Genres: Australia

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Grahamshircore]

Poorly written, unengaging and with some of the most forced and unnecessary analogies you're ever likely to see. Could have been so much better and there's plenty of books chronicling corporate frauds etc that the author could have learned from.

[Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer]

I found a number of chapters (2-3 in particular) fascinating, a few others of more superficial interest - I think this reflects my own knowledge of the incidents, companies and particularly people involved, but this probably points also at the weakness of the book in that it seems to lack a fully coherent structure. I would say though that the author seems to understand his subject well including some complexities and subtleties.