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...The industry is the country’s largest employer, providing about 4.5m jobs, and accounted for nearly 80 per cent of Bangladesh’s total merchandise exports in 2018....
...The impact is now being felt by employers. Japanese companies have been trying to make up for the shrinking labour force by looking abroad for workers....
...The partnership is the first time that Fitbit has integrated its services with an insurance company, potentially opening up a new source of growth....
...Yet insurance companies and pension funds — the natural long-term potential stewards — have been retreating from the equity market while less governance-minded institutions such as public sector funds and...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...But for exhibitors at the Japan Noodles Industry Fair, it presents something of a challenge....
...Employers have a role to play in subsidising food, providing canteens and permitting a pause in working hours....
...The would-be bank lies in an unincorporated territory of the US located in the South Pacific, where the predominant industry is tuna canning....
...Companies are still shifting production overseas in search of lower costs.” Some companies in other industries are finding ways to heed Mr Abe’s call....
...The deal, which is expected to be announced as soon as Friday, will see the majority owner of Hong Kong media and telecoms group PCCW move back into an industry he left with the 2007 sale of Pacific Century...
...Around 180 resource companies are headquartered in Brisbane, along with large Australian employers such as airline Virgin Australia and Suncorp Metway, the insurer and bank....
...The authors suggest companies may not be trying very hard to fill jobs, while workers in receipt of unemployment insurance may not be trying that hard to find them....
...“We kept our Vix options as insurance against a downside, which I’m very happy about right now because they’re going to be popping. But did I expect a day like this? No.”...
...He takes up his post in September, ahead of his planned retirement as chairman of insurance group Aviva....
...Revenues at the company have since doubled to about £180m a year in spite of the downturn that has hit its banking and insurance clients in the Square Mile....
...I think I applied to upwards of 25-30 companies.”...
...Helen Alexander, first female president of the CBI, the UK employers’ body, says diversity is needed to prevent “groupthink” by white male boards....
...The report is sponsored by MetLife, a company looking to kick-start the variable annuity market in the UK....
...The Paris government is determined to keep industry alive in France – especially the car industry which is one of the country’s largest direct and indirect employers and one of its biggest exporters....
...Here, I must state clearly that public sector enterprises such as banks and insurance companies will remain in the public sector and will be given all support, including capital infusion, to grow and remain...
...“The thing that worries me most,” he says, “is that as an industry we’re going to be faced with increasing earnings volatility.”...
...“He could see where the insurance industry was going before anybody else.” But AIG’s development as a loose collection of companies unified only by the central figure of Mr Greenberg had drawbacks....
...It’s the time to get companies with good long-term prospects cheaply.” He said the MSCI Asia Pacific index was trading at a bargain valuation of around 10.5 times earnings....
...“We have a great business in Asia-Pacific now and we have very good market share....
...Another executive familiar with the Asian insurance industry says: “When you put together insurance and Asia, you’re essentially talking about a marriage between caution and conservatism....
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