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Emissions Trading Low On South Island Business Radar (10th March 2010)
South Island businesses admit to having a poor understanding of the Emission Trading Scheme and very few companies are actively developing strategies around it, according to a survey by accounting firms Polson Higgs and McCulloch and Partners.
Only 6% of South Island firms professed to having a very good knowledge of the scheme, whereas 34% said they had a poor understanding, 24% a fair understanding and 36% a satisfactory understanding.
Polson Higgs Sponsoring Race At The International Track Meet
(10th March 2010)Polson Higgs are proud sponsors of the Men’s Under 23years 1500 metre race at the International Track Meet, to be held at QE11 Stadium in Christchurch on Thursday March 18th.
The International Track Meet is organised by an enthusiastic group of athletic supporters with the primary goal of promoting the sport to a wider NZ audience
Difficulties Ahead, But Businesses Optimistic
(9th March 2010)By Dene Mackenzie from Otago Daily Times
South Island businesses are optimistic about the future but they are still expecting some tough times ahead in the short term, a survey out this morning says.
The Polson Higgs-McCulloch and Partners survey of South Island businesses shows that business leaders expect their operating environment to become increasingly complex over the next five years.
MRINetwork's First Friday Preview (3rd March 2010)
GLOBAL
In the Short-Term, Change Likely;
In the Long-Term, Change Guaranteed
In January, the percentage of the 15 million unemployed people in the United States who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks rose from 39 to 41 percent. This figure is up from 22 percent in January 2009 and has averaged below 20 percent for almost all of the last 60 years that the statistic has been kept.
Although it’s not necessarily true, these long-term unemployed are often considered to be less desirable workers, older, less educated or less skilled. The unemployment rate for those 25-years-old and older without a college degree has exceeded 15 percent for the last two quarters, while unemployment for those with a bachelor’s degree or higher last month retreated from 5 to 4.9 percent.
Word it Right from the Start
(23rd February 2010)Delivering Better Client Service through Positive Communications
Sometimes creating a positive customer experience can be all in the words you use. One particular phrase that is used too often is ‘no problem.’ These two words are both negative words in our language and can be the spark that creates a negative thought; even if it isn’t intended to be one.
Polson Higgs Wealth Management Summer Update
(19th February 2010)Of Suckers & Seers - The Problem with Investment ‘Experts’
Welcome to our Summer Update
In this edition of our Update we review returns for the past three months to 31 December 2009 but first we revisit a 2005 study of more than 80,000 ‘expert’ forecasts that found, … wait for it, … that experts were no better at forecasting than non-experts and both were worse than simple rule-based options.
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