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Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... activity of around $0.5m in those businesses manufacturing the materials needed for the additional construction, such as concrete and steel frames. The businesses supplying and servicing the concrete and steel frame businesses, such as aggregate quarrying ...

SSGA wields power on gender equality

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... which requires directors with different skills, backgrounds and expertise. Today, we are calling on companies to take concrete steps to increase gender diversity on their boards and have issued clear guidance to help them begin to take action." SSGA ...

Super funds receive guidance on RG97

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
... 0.15% to 0.25% upward impact on their ICR, a significant jump by any measure. It will be the beginning of 2018 before any concrete data will be available however, so any definitive conclusions will have to wait until then," the white paper said. "The ...

Impact investing delivers wide reaching returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... Impact Investing Australia and the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing, Rosemary Addis said. "This provides a concrete baseline for the robust data that is needed to encourage those who remain on the side lines to enter the impact investment ...

Shorten attacks government's retro super changes

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... by 2030. It also backs its plans to "turbocharge" Infrastructure Australia with a new $10 billion funding facility, "a concrete bank to get investment from the private sector, particularly big super funds, flowing into projects." Labor says there infrastructure ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... policy. By the by, Japan's also experimented with Keynes - that is, Keynesian economics in the early 1990s when it built "concrete beaches" and "bridges to nowhere". And so far... it's gone nowhere. At its 29 January meeting when the BOJ Board decided ...

Tax reform must not betray women

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... "Development of a cohesive policy for women by the government to direct current and future policy initiatives to implement concrete changes would prevent further 'tinkering' around the edges. The starting point must be better targeted tax concessions ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

No industry is immune from poor culture risk: ASIC

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... cultural indicators in its surveillance work: "What we are doing in this culture work is 'joining the dots' on the very concrete aspects of the way firms operate to give us a better picture of their culture and how that might affect consumer outcomes." ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... 2.5% in 2017 with inflation going from 0.3% in 2015 to 1.5% next year and 2.1% the following year. But nothing's set in concrete as the August BOE statement noted, "Underlying those projections are significant judgements in a number of areas, as described ...