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Channel swimmer named Actuary of the Year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... to the profession and also raising more than $160,000 for charity. Stephan is chief actuary at Munich Re and swam the English Channel in just over 12 hours and in doing so raised more than $160,000 for the oncology unit at The Children's Hospital at ...

DST opens China website

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... China by releasing a website dedicated to the country's clients. The website include information about the company in English in Chinese. The company already has seven offices in five Asia Pacific countries including Shanghai and Beijing. DST Global ...

Charles River adds Nomura platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... client sites across 14 countries in Asia Pacific. With 50 specialists serving the region, many of them bilingual Japanese/English and Mandarin/English speakers, Charles River maintains Asia Pacific headquarters in Melbourne, offices in Tokyo and Singapore ...

ABCs of super still confusing: Suncorp

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... realised we needed to make changes by cutting the industry speak and always communicating with our customers in everyday English." Suncorp Wealth Management has overhauled its communication strategy to help members better understand super, starting with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... address an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce young business forum in sydney. New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Bill English is in Sydney to speak at an Australian Business Economist function on New Zealand's Road to Recovery. Victorian Premier John ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
'Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time...' Forgive me but this song from the 1970's English rock band Queen keeps playing in my head. You would be humming the song too if you woke up to Wall Street's 2.6 per cent jump overnight - the day General ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... campaign gets a big leg-up from Suncorp after it decided not just to simplify its member letters but also to instill a "plain English" culture internally - starting with a 'style guide' that staff can refer to when talking to or emailing clients. The ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... additional loan of up to US$37.8 billion. AP reported on October 17 that AIG executives spent US$86,000 on a luxurious English hunting trip. News of the lavish spending came just days after AIG received an additional US$37.8 billion loan from the Federal ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... take in 140,000 immigrants in 2005-06, 20,000 more than last year and the biggest number for 35 years. Rules on ages and English proficiency will be relaxed. Backpackers who spend at least three months picking fruit or working on farms will qualify automatically ...

ATO targets early access and in-house rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... access to super benefits via self managed funds. We had detected an increase in these schemes targeted at people of non-English speaking background," he said. "The ATO has stepped up its compliance activity and penalties apply to individuals, trustees ...