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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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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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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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Annuities on the march

15 February 2023 AustralianActuary Business investment, Longevity, pensions

The corporate defined benefit pension plan of the past is a rare beast in Australia these days. Most large employers have been winding these plans down for decades and there are not many left.

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Are HR departments necessary?

10 February 202311 February 2023 AustralianActuary Business HR, Management

Ask Google to respond to that query and it returns, in short, Yes.

Any number of articles will appear as to why it is a good idea to have an HR department. Reasons against an HR department are fewer and harder to find. Until now.

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What’s in a name?

9 February 202310 February 2023 AustralianActuary Business asset liability modelling, Demographics, pensions, superannuation

Shakespeare wrote some pithy lines in the 17th century about names. You’ll find those lines in Romeo and Juliet. In essence he contended that calling a rose something else would not make it smell any less sweet.

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The doddering, the unhinged, the Messiahs and the frantically busy hotel manager at the WEF

23 January 202310 February 2023 AustralianActuary Business, Economics WEF

The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland has just wound up its 2023 meeting. What a joy it is to behold the WEF meetings.

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