by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Workplace/Employee Benefits
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said blocs like the Quad group – the United States, India, Japan and Australia – and global bodies like the United Nations were already working to strike a balance between harmful content and free expression online. SYDNEY:...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Intermediaries, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The announcement comes months after a pushback from U.S. regulators forced Willis and Aon to call off their $30 billion merger that would have created the world’s largest insurance broker, topping current leader Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc . London: Willis...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | International News, Life, Policy, Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accused MLC, a part of Nippon Life Insurance, Japan’s biggest insurer, of service failures resulting from poor systems and controls over a period from 1999 to 2020, which caused financial harm to over...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | International News, Life, Policy
Many foreign financial institutions are looking to expand their onshore presence in China, taking advantage of a relaxation of ownership restrictions for foreign players in the asset management, insurance and securities broking sectors. Allianz said on Wednesday that...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
South Africa relies on coal for more than 80% of its power and is the world’s 12th-biggest source of greenhouse gases. South Africa’s energy regulator and energy minister have been sued by environmental activists over national plans to allow the construction of new...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Pandemic, Policy
With parts of Europe confronting renewed restrictions to contain another wave of the virus, China’s rebound fading and rising infections taking hold in America too, much of the global economy is now staring at the threat of a second northern winter of woe, compounded...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Facts, Health
Professor Seung-Jae V. Lee said, “Our study raises the exciting possibility of simultaneously promoting longevity and health in humans by slightly tweaking the activity of one protein, PTEN.” Daejeon: While everyone wants to live a long and healthy life,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Pandemic, Policy, Risk Management
With infections spiking again despite nearly two years of restrictions, the health crisis increasingly is pitting citizen against citizen – the vaccinated against the unvaccinated Brussles: This was supposed to be the Christmas in Europe where family and friends...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Indian News, Pension & Social Security, Policy, Workplace/Employee Benefits
All banks disbursing central government pension have been advised that in case the spouse (family pensioner) opts for the existing joint bank account for credit of family pension, banks should not insist on opening a new account, it said New Delhi: Joint bank account...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security, Policy
Explaining the rationale behind the decision, Labour Secretary Sunil Barthwal told reporters,”If we want to provide high rate of interest then we have to follow guidelines of finance ministry. There are certain instruments (prescribed in norms) where we were not...
