Good Investment Policies:Catalyst for Quality Management of Assets and Liabilities for Distress Reso
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ADEGBIE FOLAJIMI
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Journal of Finance and Business Policy.Journal of the Department of Banking,Finance and Insurance,University of Uyo.2013 .
Poor investment policy in the banking industry has contributed negatively to large non-performing loans and advances, financial distress and institutional liquidation. The objective of this paper is to assess the investment policies in the banks with a view to suggesting better policy for better management of assets and liabilities for distress resolution. The research is empirical. The study covers the banking industry with the use of corporate questionnaire to gather data from each of the sample representatives which are twenty four universal banks and five industry regulators. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to compute the collated data. The results show that there is poor management of assets and liabilities, and poor investment policies in the industry, the banks grow assets more than liabilities, the banks resulted into using depositors’ money to acquire assets and they failed to comply with Central Bank of Nigeria monetary policies. The paper recommends among others that the industry and the regulators and supervisory agents should institute a good and sound investment policy for the management of assets and liabilities in the industry.