The number of operational small savings accounts in the Department of Post as on 30/6/2011 are 264585266 and the amount deposited therein by the common man as on June 2011 is 3728154388 (Rs in thousands) The number of accounts closed by customers...

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DUBAI — A history making record mobilisation of savings has increased the total net portfolio of Pakistan’s Central Directorate of National Savings, or CDNS, by 70 per cent in the past three years from Rs1 billion in 2008-09 to Rs1.8 billion in...

MIDDLE-to upper-income earners in SA are living longer and saving less and only 53% of retirees say they are satisfied with the provisions they have made for retirement, according to the Financial Security Barometer released yesterday by...

Spanish risk premium soars

August 4, 2011 | In: News

Spain's debt risk premium shot to another record high Wednesday, forcing the prime minister to interrupt his...

KATE CHAPMAN AND VERNON SMALL Enrolling everyone who is in work into KiwiSaver remains on the table as both Labour and National consider their election savings plans. Prime Minister John Key was...

U.S. venture capital investment in green technology plunged 44% in the second quarter to $1.1 billion from the record set in the second quarter of 2010, according to a report issued Wednesday by Ernst Young. Investment rose 8%, however, from the...

Related Concern over extra KiwiSaver contributions watch Budget 2011: KiwiSaver re-shaped by government watch Around a million workers who have not signed up to KiwiSaver could be enrolled automatically in proposed Government changes.  ...

Pretty much every bank, national treasury, pension fund, insurer and mutual investment fund in the world has got some money tied up in United States Treasury bonds. They are by far the most widely held, actively traded and liquid financial...

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At Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of Barclays, analysts estimate that profits could have fallen by about 40pc to just over £2bn in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2010. Royal Bank of Scotland is...

If unemployment can be singled out as the root cause of South Africa's social ills, education comes in a close second. Thousands of young children are prejudiced by a system that leaves them unable to read, write or do basic mathematics, as...