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Charities must go corporate or face extinction: Koda

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... simply does not support the idea that non-profit board members can act as passive overseers. In an increasingly competitive world, with government funding in decline and philanthropy unable to fill the gap, boards must step up and lead like never before. ...

Bill Gross donates $867m to charity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Bond king Bill Gross has jumped straight into the list of the world's most generous philanthropists after giving US$700 million ($867 million) to charity. Gross told Bloomberg Television that he is planning to donate the remaining of his fortune, estimated ...

FSC bids to lead retirement income debate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Annual Conference, Brogden said the FSC would embrace the opportunity and lead the debate on taking superannuation from a world class accumulation scheme to the world's best retirement system. He said superannuation and retirement income policy must ...

New chair at Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... CEO of Green Cross Australia, an organization set up in 1993 by Mikhail Gorbachev to create a new approach to solving the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Prior to that, Bun has worked for The Wilderness Society, Greenpeace Australia ...

US retains World Bank leadership

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... College, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organisation (WHO). He also has a raft of other credentials including receipt of the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2003 and was ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... was how the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB) saw the economic landscape panning out in 2012 when they - one after the other - lowered their global growth projections ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... 8.4 per cent depreciation in the Australian dollar against the American greenback in May alone. But in an interconnected world, no man is... No one's still certain what the end game in Europe would be - Greek default? Greece banished from the Eurozone? ...

Men's contribution to superannuation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... superannuation and wealth management. Men invented superannuation, lead the fight for universal age pensions around the world, designed the legislative mechanisms for its introduction and spearheaded its expansion for it to become the backbone of the ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... performance in seven years even if it gives back all of last night's gains. And all this amid news that the World Health Organisation has raised the swine flu threat to 5 - one level away from pandemic. As far as Wall Street is concerned, their bacon ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... cases. I repeat, too much ado about swine flu. Guess someone wants a handout too. Who? Yes, W.H.O. -- World Health Organisation. Enough said. What really moved, or rather did not move, Wall Street last night are opposing signals for the future. The negative. ...