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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

Reform of the tax on reversions of excess pension assets

Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2008
AbstractThis study quantifies the possible consequences to stakeholders of reforms to the excise tax on reversions of excess pension assets. Under the US Pension Protection Act (PPA) of 2006, funding in defined benefit (DB) plans is likely to improve significantly.
Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsky
openaire   +2 more sources

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

Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source

The legal nature of Civil Servants Pension Fund's Assets [PDF]

دانشنامه حقوق اقتصادی
Pension funds play a vital and critical role in financing consumption in the retirement era in modern economies. In their maturity process, they accumulate assets from collected payrolls of members to make them able to cover part of their liabilities in ...
Mojtaba Ghasemi, Ahmad Panjeh Por
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal Pension Fund Management with Foreign Investment in a Stochastic Environment

Mathematics, 2022
To ensure the success of a pension plan under a self-contained defined contribution (DC) retirement plan, the inclusion of foreign assets in a local pension portfolio could be beneficial for risk diversification and the efficient improvement of a fund’s ...
Mei-Ling Tang, Ting-Pin Wu, Ming-Chin Hung   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of a Stochastic Optimal Control for Pension Funds and Application to Investments in Lower Middle-Income Countries

Journal of Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences, 2020
One of the major problems faced in the management of pension funds and plan is how to allocate and control the future flow of contribution likewise the proportion of portfolio value and investments in risky assets. This work considers the management of a
Tolulope Latunde, Opeyemi Odunayo Esan, Joseph Oluwaseun Richard, Damilola Deborah Dare   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source