New forms of media can play a crucial role to capitalize the positive practices embedded in indigenous cultures by fostering synergies between modern services and local knowledge and assist communities in taking full advantages of their social assets - the knowledge, culture and governance systems.
Even modest amounts of additional income can allow individuals to delay the drawdown of their retirement assets or the date when they claim Social Security benefits, allowing those assets to grow and requiring them to cover fewer years.
Of course, I generally represent employers and I counsel them to be vigilant about protecting their social media brand and assets.
FORBES: Company Social Media Accounts -- Who Owns Those Twitter Followers?
And, by allowing players to accumulate weapons, social ties and other assets over time, the games reward users for sticking with one game and playing it often.
The President's program does that, by retiring debt and accumulating assets against the Social Security commitments that we already have.
In the business world, where people and performance are top assets, having social and emotional skill in handling people might account for more than half of your success.
FORBES: 5 Tips To Take Charge Of Your Career Learned From Startups
Allowing young people to own their Social Security accounts, the assets of which would be invested productively instead of wasted by Washington politicians, would also enormously aid our economic future.
If there's an inadequate amount of survivor income, derived either from financial assets, pensions or Social Security, the surviving spouse faces the risk of having to enter the workforce, cut expenses, or both.
According to Zheng Bingwen of the Centre for International Social Security Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, individual accounts held assets worth only 270 billion yuan at the end of 2011, even though 2.5 trillion yuan had been paid into them.
ECONOMIST: China is beginning to face up to its pension problems
Nor would it make much difference were Social Security to be invested in other assets such as equities, investment-grade bonds and property.
ECONOMIST: The retired are always supported by their children
On June 19th it ordered all state-owned firms that had listed on the stockmarket since 2005 to transfer 10% of their shares to the National Social Security Fund to shore up its assets.
ECONOMIST: Can Asians replace Americans as a driver of global growth?
With debt servicing now the biggest item in the budget after labour and social affairs, with few valuable state assets left to sell, and with the need to respect the toughish debt criteria for countries that have adopted Europe's single currency, the government faces overwhelming pressure to show thrift.
The President's proposal would reduce the debt borrowed from the public, and deposit assets of an equal amount in the Social Security trust fund.
The league wants to capture some of this creativity and use it to further unlock its intellectual property assets, including through expanded use of social media and other digital mediums.
FORBES: Project Brand Is The Future Of Minor League Baseball
The firms are sometimes pooling client assets specifically to buy a piece of the social networking companies.
FORBES: Facebook And Twitter Shares Draw Concern From Regulators
"It is disbanded, its assets are seized and all its accounts in social networks have to be closed immediately, " the letter read.
Greek social security funds hold nearly two-thirds of their liquid assets in government bonds.
FORBES: Governments Are The Primary Creators Of Systemic Risk
With Social Security and Medicare already being squeezed, savvy individuals should ensure their assets are protected and their life wishes documented.
FORBES: Proposals to Change Military Retiree Benefits Should Kickstart Retirement Planning
Change occurs when people have opportunities to learn, acquire skills, build assets, deploy capital to start a business, and create social networks.
FORBES: MasterCard Foundation: Learning From Young Leaders Who Are Transforming Africa
From a portfolio allocation standpoint, put a small portion of your assets into this new space where you hope for both catalytic social change and positive financial results.
In fact, 64 percent of employers in a recent CareerBuilder.com survey found social interview skills and the ability to communicate well as the most important assets in a potential employee.
Amex's senior vice president for digital partnerships, Leslie Berland, said that the success of the firm's existing social media schemes suggested that there was "significant power in combining our assets with Twitter's platform".
The plan to invest some of the Social Security trust fund on Wall Street purports to address this: real assets would henceforth back the promise and, you might think, there is a double benefit because returns on Wall Street are higher than returns on the fund's existing portfolio of bonds.
People with significant assets should carefully consider both the lifetime benefits and tax consequences of Social Security in light of their overall portfolio strategy.
Instead, every company must think hard about how social media models might endanger or, alternatively, provide new opportunities for their business assets and models.
FORBES: Bubble Deflated, Social Media Will Now Change the World
It evolves the traditional model of financial and material goods donations, to one in which corporations leverage a range of corporate assets including employee skills, business acumen and partner networks, to drive social change.
In earlier research, Mr. Mahaney highlighted another benefit to deferring benefits until later: If you expect much of your retirement income to come from tax-deferred savings, you might be better off using those assets first and delaying all, or a large chunk, of your Social Security.
For assets that a family can't keep, planners use the term "social capital": money that can go only to the IRS--or to charity.
Drawing from international experience, the World Bank suggested that China could raise contribution rates, or use general revenues or dedicated social security taxes to cover contingent liabilities, in addition to direct transfers of state-owned assets.
David Love, a visiting finance professor at Columbia Business School, has calculated how much annual income retirees can generate from all their assets--savings, non-financial property and promised annuity payments like pensions and Social Security.
应用推荐