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India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... Illustrating why agricultural output is becoming such a problem in India and leading to massive wealth dispersions between modern and traditional India, the Ministry of Finance said rural production was up only 2.6 per cent. Highlighting the concerns ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... leading to the price increases could be addressed if government policy was aligned better with the economic reality of how modern farms operate. Illustrating the extent of the disconnect, WAFarmers president Mike Norton said Australian farmers have faced ...

Longevity puts focus on trauma insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... average payout being about A$193,000 and the average beneficiary being 43 years of age. Another aspect is that the nature of modern life means we are "ramping up our financial risks but medical risks are rising as well and it's culminating in longevity ...

Govt moves in on legacy products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... investment products at $221.4 billion and proposed customers should automatically be switched from an outdated product to a modern equivalent. Sherry said the Treasury Product Rationalisation Issues Paper, released last year, received 20 submissions. ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... prudential regulator and 'conduct of business' regulator. "Our current regulatory structure was not built to address the modern financial system with its diversity of market participants, innovation, complexity of financial instruments, convergence of ...

Sherry overhauls award system

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law Nick Sherry is looking to modernise the country's award system, including superannuation, to boost Australians' financial safety nets. "The government believes workers should be protected in the workplace ...

AMP posts 47pc growth in fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... investment market volatility, the company's transformation in recent years from a traditional life insurance company to a modern wealth management business means we are placed to withstand these conditions," said Dunn. AMP Financial Services managing ...

SimCorp edges back to front

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... together means legacy systems out there will be under more pressure than they are today, so we expect people to look for modern systems like ours to replace the spaghetti systems," Hill said. "I'm not going to rush out there and claim victory and triple ...

So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
The US is still undoubtedly the centre of world finance, but no one should underestimate the enormous challenge in turning their economy around. In yesterday's State of the Union address, President Bush said their recurrent fiscal budget is such a huge ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... UK. With all this focus on retirement, the irony is that it's actually quite a new concept. It is only 170 years old in modern terms, said Mercer's Darren Wickham in a paper he presented to a recent actuarial conference. "Retirement is a relatively new ...