Managing Banks and insurances

[landlack]

Hi guys, after reading the tutorial of Trader Raider, I've started my first game. It's a very strange situation: the U.S. GDP has been -5% to -12% every year for the last 4 years, and the industries are almost all decreasing demand, so I've opened a Bank.
As someone suggested, I've bought D rated companies' loans and waited their fall; the overall balance was positive. But I would like to find some more strategies with banks (and possibly with insurances). How do you manage a Bank (or an Insurance)?
Also, I've seen that my Bank automatically purchases the government bonds (losing my hard earned money, by 10% to 25%). How can I disable this function?

I hope that someone responds,
Best Regards,
LandLack

[landlack]

Some time passed and I'll respond to myself ...
The insurances are made to buy bonds with the cash, and earn more than the amount of money they spend to accumulate cash itself. Everything else is secondary, at least according to this game.

Now my question evolves in: "how do I merge two banks, completely?" Until now, at most, I've managed only to buy another 100% ...

[robertprodish]

I too am trying to get a handle on how to merge these. Tried to buy and liquidate a firm to pull cash and tax credits out...and thin the field, but cannot see how to accomplish that in WSR, yet.

[philippe]

Please Landalack & robertprodish, i would like to invite you to our new forum.
If you post your questions there you'll get answer much faster and more acurate then here.
This forum is dead now. That's why we build up a new one.

Here's the link: wsrunited.freeforums.org/index.php