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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The implementation of Asset-liability management in pension funds [PDF]

Ekonomski Signali, 2019
Pension funds in modern financial system face many risks in the process of investment policy formulation. Under these circumstances, the pension fund portfolio management must not be oriented exclusively to the maximization of total returns.
Luković Stevan, Fedajev Aleksandra
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

IMPACT OF UNDERWRITING AND FINANCIAL RATIOS ON PROFITABILITY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF INSURANCE FIRMS

Modern Management Review
This study examines factors influencing profitability in the insurance sector, focusing on financial indicators such as Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Asset Liability Ratio (ALR), Claims Ratio (CR), Expense Ratio (ER), Leverage (LEV ...
Kehinde Isiaq OLAIYA
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clock genes regulate Ca2+ signaling and mitochondrial bioenergetics to inhibit Sjogren's disease

Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective Although Ca2+ signaling and metabolism have been identified as key determinants for the development of Sjogren's disease (SjD), the intricate connection between them and salivary gland physiology remains poorly understood. Methods Fluorescence‐based Ca2+ imaging, RNA seq, and mitochondrial activity were used to investigate the effects of ...
Viktor R. Drel, Manigandan Venkatesan, Rahul S. Jasrotia, Yuyang Sun, Viviane Nascimento Da Conceicao, Neelanjan Vishnu, Shankara N Varadarajan, Venugopal R. Bovilla, Rajender K Motiani, Shobhan Gaddameedhi, Bibhuti B. Mishra, Muniswamy Madesh, Brij B. Singh   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Portfolio Allocation under Asset and Surplus VaR Constraints [PDF]

In this paper we propose an approach to Asset Liability Management of various institutions, in particular insurance companies, based on a dual VaR constraint for the asset and the surplus.
Monfort, A.
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Introduction [PDF]

, 2012
Asset management, a distinctive sector within the financial services industry, centers on an agency relationship between a client and an individual manager or firm appointed to manage the client\u27s investment portfolio.
Busch, Danny, DeMott, Deborah A.
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Legal and ethical considerations around the use of existing illustrations to generate new illustrations in the anatomical sciences

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 289-300, March 2025.
Abstract It is likely existing anatomical illustrations are often used as the basis for new illustrative works, given not all illustrators have access to human tissues, bodies, or prosections on which to base their illustrations. Potential issues arise with this practice in the realms of copyright infringement and plagiarism when authors are seeking to
Jon Cornwall, Richard White, Patrick Pennefather, Sabine Hildebrandt, Jill Gregory, Heather F. Smith, Jason Organ, Claudia Krebs   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Viabilist and Tychastic Approaches to Guaranteed ALM Problem. [PDF]

This study reconsiders the problem of hedging a liability by a portfolio made of a riskless asset and an underlying (underlying).Asset and Liability Management; Viability theory;
Aubin, Jean-Pierre, Chen, Luxi, Dordan, Olivier, Saint-Pierre, Patrick   +3 more
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