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Sustainability goals miss the number 1 goal of sustainability

23 March 202323 March 2023 AustralianActuary Business ESG

Readers will be aware of the banking crisis playing out in front of our eyes. Let’s take a moment to look at just two demises: Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, both effectively nationalised in Government emergency actions this month.

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Bank bail outs are insane

14 March 2023 AustralianActuary Business banking, regulation, risk

For three reasons:

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Risk Management at SVB

12 March 2023 AustralianActuary Business Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE)

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last week. The ramifications are not yet known but will be significant. Who was in charge of financial risk management at the bank? Read on.

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Killing the cost-push inflation Hydra

10 March 202311 March 2023 AustralianActuary Economics Central banking, inflation

Some myths never die. Just last month the Financial Review newspaper in Australia ran an opinion piece written by a senior portfolio manager at an investment management firm. The topic was inflation.

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Research? Pull the other one

8 March 20238 March 2023 AustralianActuary Business ESG, investment, pensions

This is an example of the damage the woke virus has done to the minds of many senior executives in corporate life. Read this press release with a straight face, if you can. I read the report so you don’t have to.

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The end of ESG and corporate wokeism is not far away

28 February 20231 March 2023 AustralianActuary Business ESG, investment

It seems clear that the era of ESG and corporate wokeism is closing.

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The Coriolis Force and decisions in yacht racing

25 February 202326 February 2023 AustralianActuary Sailing Sailing, tactics, weather

The Coriolis Force, or effect, causes southern hemisphere sailors to prefer to sail on the opposite tack to their northern hemisphere counterparts. But which way is best, and why?

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Don’t lose sleep over a trade deficit. Don’t get too excited by a trade surplus.

20 February 202320 February 2023 AustralianActuary Economics trade

International trade is one of those topics of political economy that many people misunderstand. It’s like inflation, in that regard. The balance of trade, that is the value of exports less imports, is a commonly quoted and discussed national statistic.

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And in fashion news, we turn to stress testing financial institutions

16 February 202316 February 2023 AustralianActuary Business asset liability modelling, regulation, risk

Does anyone else get the feeling that regulators and supervisors of financial institutions such as insurers, banks and pension funds merely follow the fashion?

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Clueless Central

16 February 20232 March 2023 AustralianActuary Economics Clueless, inflation, Interest rates

The Australian central bank governor says he doesn’t know how high interest rates will have to go to get rampant inflation under control. That may be the first thing he has said that I believe.

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