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Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... inequality is rampant among 64 out of 106 counties that receive grants or loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Income inequality in Ghana, Honduras, Mozambique, and 39 other countries stood at high levels. The rapid rate in ...

Advice PDMs, BDMs at inflection point: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... their role has been predicated on their relationship with advisers and practices and as their clients adapted to their new world, how would the BDM/PDM fare?" Business Health said. Managers surveyed said that their workload has increased, yet 81% have ...

Super funds embrace offshore investment, internal teams

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2023
... looking for the best returns and we're big enough now that we can look wherever they are. But living in a 'Zoom' world, I think that question of how much you can get done without putting your feet on a plane has a different answer now than ...

AFCA tallies up COVID-19 complaints

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... complaints about superannuation funds over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Releasing data now that the World Health Organisation has declared the pandemic over, AFCA said it received in excess of 17,000 complaints between 12 March 2020 and 6 May ...

The seven global megatrends to watch: CSIRO

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
CSIRO senior research consultant Dr Claire Naughtin shared findings from the research house's latest Our Future World Report at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) last week, highlighting seven global megatrends to keep an eye on. The ...

Invest Blue trials nine-day fortnight for advisers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... communications including daily team huddles, which can be done physically or virtually." According to the World Health Organisation, working 55 or more hours a week raises the risk of stroke by 35% and ischemic heart disease by 17%, when compared to ...

Gender balance is smart economics: CEW

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... participation by women from the current 73% to 85% (on par with Sweden, the highest labour force participation rate in the world) could boost GDP by as much as $186 billion per year, based on PwC estimates. "Businesses achieve better results when there ...

Hopes for action at "implementation" COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... pressure is coming onto financial institutions to take action independent of governments de-risking, to achieve those real-world outcomes and I don't know that that's realistic." Janus Henderson Investors sustainability analyst Amarachi Seery ...

Government strengthens multinationals tax laws

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
... multinational taxes from the OECD. At the G20 meetings in Indonesia, one of the topics of conversation was about how the world can work together on the two pillars of the OECD agenda and make sure that we fix this problem in the global economy and certainly ...

TIP Group appoints chief strategy officer

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
... commented on the appointment, saying: "Rachel is one of the few people globally who can lay claim to advising the UN, WHO and world governments on matters of international importance. She is one of an even fewer number of Australians who can add a career ...
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