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Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... steps, reported a Jakarta Post editorial earlier this year, in the areas of R&D, improved education, official bureaucracy and human capital. Indonesia already has lower labour costs than China, is the world's third biggest democracy and is slated as ...

SuperChoice signs TOWER super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... differential for the fund can be as much as 500 to 1," he said. It also means that TOWER can reduce costs incurred due to human error with research suggesting that as much as 25 per cent of all manually processed transactions have to be re-worked due ...

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... to buy or sell have been completed manually using an email, post or fax. The Mercer report found STP can cut the risk of human error, speeds up transactions and can reduce the overall cost to pensions. While STP is becoming the norm in the local superannuation ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... Government Reform. This should be interesting. But it would be more for the other big two - S&P and Fitch. Unfortunately, human nature dictates that as long as the peddlers of securities are the ones putting food on the gatekeepers' tables these kinds ...

The invisible issue in super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... Speaking at the Sydney Institute, Broderick, who is also commissioner responsible for age discrimination at the Australian Human Rights Commission, said women are unfairly deprived of decent superannuation savings because the average woman does not work ...

FTSE4Good deletes 15 from series

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... review resulted in 15 companies mostly based in Japan and the US being deleted from the series typically for failing to meet human and labour rights and environmental criteria. Japan-based companies Canon, Ibiden, Koito Manufacturing, Stanley Electric ...

ISN unveils new industry fund campaign

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... Grow" in the advertisements. The campaign also takes the new Industry SuperFunds logo and builds it into a more dynamic and human element of the campaign. The campaign is a very visual campaign with little voice-over, allowing the imagery and music to ...

Frontier Software signs with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Human resources and payroll solutions tech firm Frontier Software has selected Payment Adviser's SuperPay system to enable the payment of overnight superannuation contributions. The system allows one day processing times for member's contributions. ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... publication. Earnings...check. Economics...check. What about investor psychology. Ahh, yes...that unquantifiable and fickle human emotion. Let me put it this way. There's a US non-bank lender called CIT Group. It nearly went belly up, threatening the ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Forty years ago today, what was thought beyond the realms of human possibility became reality. Man landed on the moon. No one also imagined Professor Nouriel Roubini turning into a bull. For as long as I care to remember Professor Nouriel Roubini was ...