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Post-retirement products: the next big challenge for retirement funds

“Ultimately, members will look to their pension fund to provide the strategies and products they need for a secure and enjoyable retirement lifestyle. So it’s up to the industry in every market to think about the best way to deliver that, through whole-of-life strategies that respond to individual needs and situations.”

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Post-retirement products: the next big challenge for retirement funds

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Making mature age employment work

The fact that we have an ageing population is well known. According to the Committee on Ageing Issues Report on the Ageing Population, between now and 2030, Singapore will witness an unprecedented and profound age shift. It is estimated that the number of residents aged 65 years or older will multiply threefold from 300,000 in 2005 to 900,000 in 2030. By then, one in five residents will be a senior, compared with one in 12 residents in 2005.

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New York v Singapore Airport: what do they say about their respective country brands

Singapore recently won the Best Airport In The World honour at the international Skytrax World Airport Awards in the passenger category. If there was an award for worst airport it would have to be New York. What Singapore does understand and New York does not understand is that an airport is like a brand’s packaging and design. The first impression of a country is its airport. It’s the gateway to all the other brand values of that country.

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Has your brand got a conscience?

Increasingly, brands point to their environmental and social conscience as part of their brand values. Will this be an ongoing trend?

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The truth behind attaining work/life balance

So is work/life balance really attainable?

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Carbon reduction – can it be that simple?

Buildings responsible for at least 40% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions can implement some simple tried-and-tested actions—some costing less than SG$170,000—to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Good to Great Business – What differentiates the Employer of Choice?

Companies today dangle all sorts of unique ‘carrots’ in a bid to attract the best and brightest. All the more so as the Gen Y workforce grows. These high-performance and high-maintenance multi-taskers increasingly eschew monetary incentives for better Work-Life balance. Employers are realizing that you can’t just make the employee work; they have to want to work.

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What Makes Singaporean Social Network Users Tick?

UM is a global media communications agency.Part of the Interpublic Group of companies,UM works with the world’s leading marketers and strategic thinkers through its 151 offices in 130 countries. In Singapore, UM actively collaborates with clients that include MasterCard, Sony Pictures, AIA, offering a full spectrum of media services.

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Overseas Job Seekers Revive their Career in Asia

As frustration over unemployment remains high after 18 months, a recruitment specialist is advising job seekers, to look for greener pastures outside their home countries and set their sights on Asia.

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Is the global labour market freeing up again and are people still as keen to move abroad for work?

As the world emerges from the GFC it is clear that people have very different attitudes to work and their employment situations. Stabilityand security are now far bigger priorities than ever before which has had a knock-on affect to the liquidity of global labour markets.

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How to Reduce Risk in Infrastructure Project Finance

The global financial crisis has impacted on the margins and risk profile on which many infrastructure project finance business plans were based.

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Acing the interview

Consultant Aimee Young says you can ensure that you ace your next interview by following just a few simple tips.

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What's in a name?

If a nation’s brand values can be summed up by how it names its shopping centres, what does this say about the UK versus Singapore? Chris Reed tells us.

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Are your assets working to their full potential?

An asset training plan will drive a competitive advantage for assets that can tangibly demonstrate better sustainability, lower service charge and better tenant services.

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Safeguarding the Singapore brand

Over the last four decades, the government of Singapore and its people have built a city that is known around the world as being very clean, safe and a wholesome place to live and raise a family. Our reputation for law and order and strict enforcement by a government that does not compromise is legendary.

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Now what Singapore?

Predicting the future can be a notoriously tricky business. Things that people declare with certainty will happen often don’t, while things that no one saw coming have a horrible habit of actually happening.

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