Rams Review: Down Under Do-Over Injects Broad Comedy Into Icelandic Festival Darling Rams Review: Down Under Do-Over Injects Broad Comedy Into Icelandic Festival Darling
Sam Neill and Michael Caton star in this Australian remake of Grímur Hákonarson s 2015 Icelandic dramedy, amplifying the film s underlying humor.
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Director: Jeremy Sims
With: Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson, Wayne Blair, Kipan Rothbury, Travis McMahon, Hayley McElhinney, Asher Keddie, Will McNeill, Asher Yasbincek, Leon Ford.
Running time: Running time: 119 MIN.
Ian Brodie
Nearly six years ago, “Rams,” a touching humanist drama from Iceland directed and written by Grímur Hákonarson, won hearts and prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, in trots “Rams,” an Australian remake, directed by Jeremy Sims (“Last Cab to Darwin”). Adapted with winning cultural specificity by former newsman Jules Duncan, it’s longer and more bro
Chanticleer super fundâs return to crow about
The coronavirus knocked my super fund off its perch in early 2020. But the performance over the calendar year was worth crowing about.
Jan 23, 2021 â 12.00am
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Technology stocks and alternative investments helped the Chook Super Fund navigate through the coronavirus pandemic with another market-beating return for calendar 2020.
The Chook nest egg remains in good shape after the fund recorded a net return of 10.6 per cent compared to a 7 per cent return for the basket of indices used as a benchmark.
The Chook Super Fund navigated a bumpy 2020 to remain in good shape.Â
Dai Xianglong
Dai Xianglong, a former governor of the People s Bank of China and former head of the National Social Security Fund, is calling for allocating a proportion of assets confiscated from corrupt officials and a proportion of land transfer fees to replenish pension reserves.
At a pension reserves forum hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on December 19, Dai said the amount of assets confiscated from corrupt officials could total billions of yuan.
In recent years, with the increasing number of elderly in China, the sustainability of the pension fund is under threat. In 2019, the balance of social insurance funds nationwide was Rmb585.486 billion, and after fiscal subsidies were excluded, there was a deficit for the seventh consecutive year.
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Announcing that the due diligence process had opened the way to the next stage in the merger process, Cbus Super chair, Steve Bracks said the process had provided an independent assessment that the merger was in the best interests of members.
Media Super chair, Susan Heaney said there would be no change to Media Super’s core focus on the printing, entertainment, arts and media industry.
“As part of a larger fund, our members will benefit from the cost benefits of increased scale, access to new opportunities in investments and ever-improving products and services,” she said.
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