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Profitable Risk
Risk management is important for any company to deliver optimum shareholder value. For highly leveraged entities like banks, risk management takes an even more important role. Companies can earn economic profits, only if risks are managed. Risk management is important for any company to deliver optimum shareholder value. For highly leveraged entities like banks, risk […]
Out of Mind
Mental health professionals say available mental health care in Sri Lanka is no where near enough to guarantee peace of mind.Mental health professionals say available mental health care in Sri Lanka is no where near enough to guarantee peace of mind. “We have been training people, but we need more,” says Director, Mental Health Services, […]
Growth Plans
Proceeds from the Dialog share issue will fund its future network expansion which will help add some 500,000 more customers to its current base of over 1.4 million users. Proceeds from the Dialog share issue will fund its future network expansion which will help add some 500,000 more customers to its current base of over […]
Money Report Q & A – Hans Wijayasuriya
Though a late entrant to the Sri Lanka mobile Dialog started with GSM, a digital technology, when others were using older analogue technologies.In the run up to Dialog Telekom’s IPO, Shafraz Farook talked to Dialog’s Chief Executive, Dr.Hans Wijayasuriya. The following is a transcript of the interview broadcast over The Money Report, the financial news […]
Political uncertainty and tsunami damage will make it tougher for Sri Lanka to halve poverty
Political uncertainty and tsunami damage will make it tougher for Sri Lanka to halve poverty by 2015 according to a UN agency.Political uncertainty and tsunami damage will make it tougher for Sri Lanka to halve poverty by 2015 according to a UN agency. Millennium Development Goals (MDG) agreed five years ago by the UN to […]
Corporate leaders should use the moment to force the point that they are not a group of crony capitalists.
Corporate leader activism is almost non-existent although the Cease Fire Agreement with the LTTE is delicately poised and political landscape slipping in to uncertainty.Corporate leader activism is almost non-existent although the Cease Fire Agreement with the LTTE is delicately poised and political landscape slipping in to uncertainty. The primacy of politics over economics is not […]
‘s biggest achievements
JVP supremo Somawanse Amerasinghe said among the biggest achievements of the party during the last year was reducing corruption, cutting of waste in ministries, and using the savings to buy a bus for ministry workers to travel.JVP supremo Somawanse Amerasinghe said among the biggest achievements of the party during the last year was reducing corruption, […]
Money Report Q & A – Luis M. Valdivieso
Top donors including the IMF had an opportunity to listen to and have a dialogue with the government about its policy framework at the Development Forum in Kandy. The IMF also released a statement to the donors (link) and made a presentation (link). Shamindra Kulamannage spoke to IMF’s Senior Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, Luis […]
SLT share perk up on Dialog’s IPO pricing
Sri Lanka Telecom shares rose Friday, on investor perceptions that the stock is undervalued compared to the upcoming Dialog Telecom issue, traders said.Sri Lanka Telecom shares rose Friday, on investor perceptions that the stock is undervalued compared to the upcoming Dialog Telecom issue, traders said. More than 2 million SLT shares changed hands Friday with […]
One Only
The CFA Institute – the global association which offers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification filed a lawsuit in the Commercial High Court of Sri Lanka this week against ICFAI Education Lanka.The CFA Institute – the global association which offers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification filed a lawsuit in the Commercial High Court of […]