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“AI and sustainability - cure or curse?”
While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
Publication | November 7, 2016
It too often happens that U.S.-based multinational companies develop their global employment strategy by happenstance. Typically, they grow over time through acquisition, and rarely focus sufficient attention at the time of purchase on true and proper integration of their differing global workforces, policies and practices.
Needless to say, this leads to frequent mistakes over time, and in some cases, significantly adverse (yet avoidable) legal liabilities and payouts. This article highlights a few of the key issues for multinational employers to focus on when growing their global workforces so as to develop and implement a good global employment strategy. Issues discussed include: (1) Consolidation of global employment policies and documents; (2) independent contractors versus employees under varying global standards; and (3) proper global and local employer entity structuring.
Read the full article: Keys to an effective global employment strategy
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While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
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In this edition of Regulation Around the World we review recent steps that financial services regulatory authorities have taken as regards investment research.
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We have had a new pension tax regime since April 6, 2024. The underlying legislation is convoluted and almost impossible for a lay person to follow, so you would be forgiven for thinking there was a lot to study. At the very granular level that is true, and your scheme administrators will have a lot of detailed changes to make to systems. However if you zoom out a bit, in many ways life hasn’t changed. We’ve done the poring over densely amended tax legislation for you. Here are the highlights: five things to know and three things to do.
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