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A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
If you can't buy 'em, jail 'em! Is China going back to its old ways? Wall Street ended flat overnight. And so it should there was really not much news out for it to react to one or another. The G8 meeting in Italy produced nothing new. Their communique ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... was 'a bit too small'. Which is it going to be Virginia? Decreased spending? Increased spending? Certainly, it is beyond human realms to do both. The key word here is impatience. Perhaps we have not learnt from this experience and the experiences of ...

Amnesty highlights Shell governance shortfall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group is under fire from a human rights group for not disclosing key information around its operations in the Niger Delta - potentially exposing fund managers to unknown corporate governance issues. The Amnesty International letter ...

Towers Perrin merges with Watson Wyatt

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... create more career opportunities. Towers Perrin has offices in Melbourne and Sydney. Russell Investment Group bought the human resources division of Towers Perrin (Australia) in 2004. The business expects to have an annual earnings before interest, taxes ...

China's SWF on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... compliance, private and public market investments. There are also positions available in the finance, IT, tactical investments and human resources departments. A news report by Asia Asset Management noted that CIC is looking to fill 29 positions. These ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... reshuffle that saw Chris Bowen promoted to Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law and Minister for Human Services. Indicating that a major reshuffle was already on the cards and that the resignation of the accident prone Joel ...

Amnesty pushes for fund review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... Amnesty International linked the companies to providing revenue to the Sudanese government. This warning comes after the human rights organisation announced the firm is lobbying for Citigroup to use its investments to support calls for change in Darfur. ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... global catastrophe. The World Health Organisation has raised the alert level from 3 to 4 - the highest being 6 where the human population is all but vapourised. Not surprisingly, the media has latched onto the outbreak and peppers their commentaries ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... bragging rights. Heck, Australia was even easing immigration rules because we were running out of workers and had to resort to human importation. That was at 5.6 per cent unemployment! Go figure. As you sit in front of your Easter feast this Sunday ...

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
So it was written, so it was. No more bonuses. Taxpayers hate that. The government threatens to regulate against that. Hmmm...what can we do? Last Friday, I wrote about the futility of introducing new regulations to ensure that the current global financial ...