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World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... agenda that discusses issues such as combating corruption, "green" recovery, energy subsidies, BP oil spill, reducing poverty, etc. Will this be a case of "in trying to please everyone, no on is pleased?" They agreed to continue fiscal stimulus if necessary. ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... the public's mood when it stated that, "The policies that are being followed are leading workers and the society toward poverty, penury and insecurity, while at the same time preserving and increasing the privileges of the financially well-off, banks ...

Thin line between values and money

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... financial goals but not their core values. He cites, as an example, a client who wants to save one million people from poverty within a certain timeframe. "The man already runs a successful business so I probably won't be able to give any more added ...

The invisible issue in super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... existed between men and women she made it clear that she was not recommending women are the only gender susceptible to poverty or that women should choose paid work over having a family. Instead she called for the government to look at how the superannuation ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... from ADB's Asian Development Fund - a financing facility that offers loans at low interest rates and grants to reduce poverty in its poorest developing member countries. The loans are expected to be fully used by the end of this year. The three economies ...

African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... particularly damaging consequences for girls, said Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank vice president for the Africa Region. "Poverty has a female face and the global economic downturn will have a significant impact on women as more of them lose jobs and ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... government's Budget strategy for reforming retirement income policy when it revealed that Australia has the fourth highest poverty rate among the OECD countries for seniors and retirees. The finding lands a fatal blow to critics of the government's superannuation ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... Africa over so many decades - if not generations -- majority of the countries located in the Continent remains mired in poverty, famine, corruption and disease. In their desperation to avoid this fate, governments and central banks are experimenting ...

Christian Super turns to microfinance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... latest venture via its member news later this month. "It's a tangible way we can actually see that we are helping make poverty history, by trying to help the two to three billion working poor that exists in the world," he said.

Clear focus to drive age pension reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... appropriate pension payment level, the government must decide if the fundamental purpose of the age pension is to reduce poverty or to replace income, argues the Institute of Actuaries (IA) in a new discussion paper. The paper, New Ideas for Age Pension ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA
Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI
MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI
Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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