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WC benefit
Category: Articles/Investments
... World Cup is targeting that highly influential group of people who serve as the gateway to diners.” The finalists would spend a week at the Cape and be exposed to the industry first-hand, meeting with ...Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
Financial crisis and morality
Category: Articles/Other
... profit, also seeks to achieve the greater good of society? In last week’s article, we posed the question whether the financial crisis, at its core, is rather one of morality; and highlighted the drive ...Monday, 21 June 2010 -
Financial crisis
Category: Articles/Investments
... “applied social science”. This “applied science” became superimposed on other vocations such as engineering, accounting, marketing - and even in some cases professions such as medicine - to cater for the ...Monday, 14 June 2010 -
Social and ethics issues
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... advisory panel. These draft regulations should be opposed on both a superficial and a more fundamental level. Although there are certain exemptions, the draft regulations effectively mean that public ...Friday, 05 March 2010 -
Budget 2010
Category: Articles/Other
... share investment structures is one of the proposed loophole changes and is long overdue, as former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel started to growl at it nearly a decade ago when these structure were devised ...Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
Bank regulation
Category: Articles/Banking
... It is against this background that Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank, echoing the tension between rulers and the captains of the financial industry through the ages, proposed the creation of a B20 ...Tuesday, 02 February 2010 -
Asset management
Category: Articles/Banking
... of standards. The proposed changes would result in many more so-called off balance sheet structures being brought on balance sheet. To cater for the extent to which the risk exposure of financial institutions ...Tuesday, 02 February 2010 -
Lingering financial crisis
Category: Articles/Other
... them of government rules on compensation and allowing them to pay out major staff bonuses. President Obama last week proposed that Wall Street banks pay up to $117 billion to reimburse the US treasury ...Tuesday, 19 January 2010 -
Tax on car sales
Category: Articles/Investments
... About the new proposed tax, set to be introduced in March this year, the director of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) warned that the “industry is currently ...Tuesday, 19 January 2010 -
Not-so-private equity
Category: Articles/Investments
... buyout industry – so that the industry can begin borrowing again. How can private equity be in need of government support, is the question posed by Peter Johnson. According to "Financial Times", Guy ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Protecting South Africa’s tax system
Category: Articles/TAX
... proposed in this manner are effective immediately. The recent introduction of the Advance Tax Ruling (ATR) process is also worth mentioning. In terms of the ATR process, taxpayers are able to approach ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Getting the reporting right
Category: Articles/Investments
... that integrated reporting on economic, social and environmental issues should be forward-looking so that stakeholders can make more informed assessments of the economic value of a company as opposed to ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
The post-crisis economy
Category: Articles/Other
... of the inflation targeting regime until global policy-makers find a superior alternative. The proposed macro-prudential regulations and the likely increase in the emphasis on contra-cyclical monetary ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
The world post-crisis
Category: Articles/Investments
... the crisis has also posed fundamental questions about 21st century investing and the nature of the industry which conducts that activity on behalf of hundreds of millions of citizens across the world. ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Alexander Forbes Health
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... whether there are any performance issues in the workplace” says Kahlberg. Furthermore, nowadays, more attention is paid to a person’s actual ability to perform their job as opposed to making a standard ...Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
Alert!
Category: Articles/Other
... possible, such as route maps to avoid traffic congestion on event days, and tips to deal with other logistical challenges posed by the action-packed year ahead. It will also be updated regularly to cater ...Friday, 27 November 2009 -
New financial crisis looms
Category: Articles/Investments
Old illnesses seem far from cured "Is the next crash just around the corner?" is the question posed in an article by Peter Johnson last week on the Open Democracy website, while others warn that the seeds ...Tuesday, 17 November 2009 -
Knowing your rights
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... the right to privacy which means that taxpayers must under the current law be notified by SARS before physical audits are carried out,” says Klue. Under the proposed Tax Administration Bill, this is changing. ...Wednesday, 04 November 2009 -
Tax Reforms
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
PwC supports proposed reduced regulatory tax reforms The medium-term budget statement presented by the South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on 27 October 2009 indicated that the tax revenue is ...Friday, 30 October 2009 -
Sanlam
Category: Articles/Banking
Managing a fiscal calamity The Medium-term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) released yesterday is probably as good as one could expect under the circumstances. It faces the realities posed by the economic ...Wednesday, 28 October 2009 -
Investec Bank
Category: Articles/Banking
... estimates 6.2% GDP. The risk of a rating outlook or even revision increases as the government uses borrowings to fund current expenditure. The impact on inflation, if the proposed electricity tariff ...Wednesday, 28 October 2009 -
Breaking the banks
Category: Articles/Banking
... losses, they do now. None of the new regulations proposed to require banks to hold more capital, change their remuneration packages and so on gets anywhere near tackling this issue. And unless it is tackled, ...Monday, 26 October 2009 -
Tax Break
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
House-in-your-own-name-tax break There are capital gains tax (CGT) advantages to an individual holding his primary residence in his own name. This is as opposed to holding it through a trust or a company. ...Wednesday, 21 October 2009 -
New economic order
Category: Articles/Banking
... iconic institutions like the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and IMF survive the twin onslaught of the present deep crisis “financial capitalism” finds itself in and the challenges posed by climate ...Tuesday, 13 October 2009 -
Pension Crisis
Category: Articles/Retirement
... have many years to wait for recovery. Confidence in plans that leave people so exposed to market developments is likely to be hurt. Public pension benefits, usually taxpayer funded on a pay-as-you-go ...Monday, 05 October 2009 -
Unit Trust
Category: Articles/Investments
... 20% limit," says Marais. Like equity funds, balanced funds are wealth-creation, as opposed to wealth-preservation funds, but without the same level of risk as pure equity funds. ...Friday, 02 October 2009 -
Focus on
Category: Articles/Banking
... almost irresistible temptation of high profits and a booming client base as opposed to a stagnant or shrinking international business environment. But an important feature impacting on business operations ...Monday, 14 September 2009 -
National Health Insurance
Category: Articles/Other
... will sacrifice adequate industry consultation, leaving private sector stakeholders out in the cold. The proposed NHI plan will be complex and has already led to much debate and controversy. However, ...Tuesday, 08 September 2009 -
Tax havens under threat?
Category: Articles/TAX
... oppose secrecy and promote transparency in international finance. A level playing field in tax matters is desired as opposed to loopholes and distortions in tax and regulation, and the abuses that flow ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
The Root of the Crisis
Category: Articles/Development
... been transforming many realms of management, from art to science. But the global financial crises exposed the limitations of certain tools. In particular, the world saw the folly of the reliance by banks, ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009
