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- Vic Govt Budget Forecasts Hefty surplus
- The Victorian government is forecasting an $828 million budget surplus in 2008/09 as it spends $3.9 billion net on a capital works program and cuts business taxes.Looking ahead over the next four years, the budget papers predict an average surplus of $907 million with an average infrastructure spend of...
- News items 2008-05-06
- Trade Deficit Down as Coal Exports Surge
- Australia has rebounded from its worst ever trade deficit as resource exports recover from the devastation of the Queensland floods.The nation's export performance is set to sizzle in coming months - with economists even predicting an eventual trade surplus - as Asian nations pay more for key commodities.The trade...
- News items 2008-05-06
- Long Wish Lists For WA State Budget
- Tax reform, a children's hospital and hundreds more hospital beds are on West Australian wish lists for the boom state's election-year budget to be delivered on Thursday.Treasurer Eric Ripper lifted the operating surplus forecast for 2007-08 by almost $400 million to $1.83 billion, from $1.45 billion previously, when the...
- News items 2008-05-07
- White Paper - Managing Working Capital
- Cash flows in a cycle into, around and out of a business. It is the business's life blood and every manager's primary task is to help keep it flowing and to use the cash flow to generate profits. If a business is operating profitably, then it should, in theory, generate...
- White papers
- Chinese Trade surplus Soars in July
- Paul Michelman used the Harvard Business Review Conversation Starters blog Friday to highlight a piece of news that was easy to miss amid all the howls of pain emanating from Wall Street: China's trade surplus "soared to its second-highest monthly level on record in July," WSJ.com reports. Given analysts...
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Who Benefits From New Medical Technologies? Estimates of Consumer and Producer surpluses for HIV/AIDS Drugs
- The social value of an innovation is comprised of the value to consumers and the value to innovators. This paper estimates that for the HIV/AIDS therapies that entered the market from the late 1980's onwards, innovators appropriated only 5% of the social surplus arising from these new technologies. Despite the...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Primary surpluses and Sustainable Debt Levels in Emerging Market Countries
- This paper aims to put some constraints on the way primary surpluses are projected when making assessments of public debt sustainability. Projections should be tied either to the country's historical track record in generating surpluses-if the institutional and other factors accounting for this track record are expected to persist-or to...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- The Interaction of Guarantees, surplus Distribution, and Asset Allocation in With Profit Life Insurance Policies
- Traditional life insurance policies in many markets are sold with minimum interest rate guarantees. In the case of a so-called cliquet style guarantee, the guaranteed return must be credited to the policyholder's account each year. Usually, life insurers try to provide this guaranteed rate of interest plus some stable surplus...
- White papers 2004-08-26
- The Discounted Cash Flow Approach
- This paper provides a presentation of the authors' respective views on return on surplus or return on premium as the most appropriate measure of return. This is a debate of importance to more than the insurance industry. When surplus and premium are substituted with equity and sales, respectively, one clearly...
- White papers 2004-04-13
- Petition to Wind Up Plan Granted in Buschau
- The wind-up of a pension plan and the distribution of any remaining surplus are generally governed by provincial or federal pension legislation, and pension plan texts and pension legislation are worded accordingly. The paper presents the case of Buschau v. Rogers Communications Inc., and reveals that the Buschau decision introduces...
- White papers 2003-07-07
- Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?
- With over $1 trillion in assets, the U.S. Social Security trust fund is the largest pension reserve in the world, and potentially a model for other developed countries facing future financing problems. This paper provides a unified conceptual framework for thinking rigorously about the assets accumulated in the trust fund....
- White papers 2003-06-01
- If the Trust Funds Are Real, the surplus Numbers Are Wrong
- This paper argues that the saving or capital accumulation of the trust funds should have been and should now be separated from the primary budget surplus. Rather than attempting to balance the unified surplus in times of full employment, the goal should be to balance the extrust funds budget. In...
- White papers 2003-04-28
- Layoffs and Alternatives to Layoffs
- The article discusses the least liked aspect of downsizing, which is deciding what to do with the managers and professionals whose jobs are declared "surplus.” Companies vary widely in the ways they deal with these surpluses. Article considers the approaches taken by two Houston businesses. If there are more managers...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Misapplications of Internal Rate of Return Models in Property/Liability Insurance Ratemaking
- This paper describes two common misapplications o f internal rate of return (IRR) models in property/liability insurance ratemaking. These misapplications have contributed to the popular belief that the fair premium is heavily dependent on supporting surplus, leading casualty actuaries to devote much time and attention to techniques of surplus allocation....
- White papers 2002-07-25
- Comparison of the U.S. and Canadian Dairy Industries
- Both the U.S. and Canada have been at a trade tug of war in recent years regarding whether or not Canadian exports of nonfat dry milk, known as skim milk powder around the globe, are subsidized. The U.S. is claiming the Canadians are effectively using subsidies on their dairy exports....
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Same Price, Cash or Card: Vertical Control by Payment Networks
- The no-surcharge rule (NSR) prohibits merchants from charging different prices to consumers that use credit cards instead of cash. The paper shows that, while an NSR raises card company profits, it may reduce both cash and card transactions. If the card company can offer rebates to its cardholders, it will...
- White papers 2001-12-01
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- Anger over plan for commercial flights at wartime airfield near
- For years the only droning in the tranquil hills of Snowdonia National Park was the sound of bumblebees. But as plans advance for an abandoned military airfield to be turned into a commercial airport, campaigners fear the droning of aircraft will soon destroy the peace in this corner of protected...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Liquidity Services, Inc. Completes Acquisition of UK-based Geneva Group
- Acquisition Broadens and Diversifies LSI's Marketplace by Adding a European Base of Commercial Buyers and Sellers WASHINGTON -- Liquidity Services, Inc. (LSI), a leading online auction marketplace for wholesale, surplus and salvage assets, announced it has completed the acquisition of the Geneva Group, including Geneva Industries Ltd., Willen...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Cheap but deadly weapon killed police officer
- It's called the "poor man's deer rifle." Inexpensive, deadly and fairly common, the gun used to kill a Philadelphia police officer Saturday was originally designed for the Soviet Army in the mid-1940s. The SKS carbine - considered simple and rugged - weighs about 8.5 pounds and can be bought legally...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- A.M. Best Special Report: Mutual A&H Insurers Adapt to Changing Markets
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- U.S. mutual accident and health insurers must adapt and evolve to survive in a sector that has driven many of them to niche positions in a world of health care dominated by managed care giants. * Remaining mutual A&H insurers have kept their status out...
- Articles 2008-05-05
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