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Estate planning is an ongoing process and is about much more than reducing taxes—it’s about ensuring your family is provided for, your business can continue, and your charitable goals are achieved. Having a plan that reflects your current financial and family situation, and regularly reviewing it to ensure it fits any changes in your circumstances, will help preserve for your heirs what it took a lifetime to build.

The oil and gas sector is no stranger to recurring upheaval, volatility, and shifting geopolitical landscapes. Successful players have proven an ability to take a long-term view and manage through such challenges by innovating and adapting. However, navigating the future is increasingly challenging in a more complex global market, and the longer-term backdrop has changed. As the world transitions to a low carbon system, companies in the oil and gas sector need to reconsider their portfolio and related capabilities to not only survive, but thrive, in this new future.

Behind the scenes of the world’s leading industrial and manufacturing companies, a profound digital transformation is now underway. While terms like the industrial internet or digital factory are also used to describe the journey industrial companies are taking towards a complex value chain transformation, the term ‘Industry 4.0’ stands for the fourth industrial revolution and focuses on the end-to-end digitization of all physical assets and integration into digital ecosystems with value chain partners.

Vulnerability and personal security risks can be greatly reduced by following five basic principles of security at all times—awareness, low profile, unpredictable routine, communication, and layers of security. Based on those principles, these guidelines are designed to give practical advice on safety and security to anybody who is living in or travelling to places where problems such as kidnap, detention, and other forms of criminal attack may occur.

India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and Africa is also experiencing rapid growth and aspiring to raise its agricultural output to $880 billion USD in 2030. The determination to work together as key partners (trade between them was 70 billion USD in 2014-2015) to achieve common economic goals has turned India and Africa into investment hotspots of the global economy, contributing to economic growth, improved health and nutritional conditions, and global food security.

The female next gens have ambition and talent, and they’re prepared to work hard to prove they deserve their seats on the family board. The family firm could actually be one of the most supportive and conducive environments for ambitious and talented women to develop their careers. And the returns could be very significant: a report last year estimated that the financial cost to public companies of having no female directors could be as high as $65 billion.

With the green economy pegged for expansion, opportunity for Indian businesses and climate leadership and advocacy can create significant changes. If India is able to think ahead of the curve and tap into future potential that exists in developing a green economy—through sustainable production, innovation, decentralization, networking, smart technology, and R&D—the strengths of different stakeholders can be activated in ways that can lead to an inclusive, sustainable, and more stable economy.

While many individuals may have the skills and experience for a private staffing position, it’s the chemistry and having a system in place that makes it work for all parties. With this guide that includes job descriptions and requirements, discover the actionable insights and best practices for optimizing your private staff throughout the hiring process lifecycle. Learn how to prepare to hire, search for the right employee, evaluate candidates, conduct background checks, and much more.

The idea that people generally prefer consuming goods and services today rather than at some point in the distant future is a basic tenet of economic theory. Based on this, savers usually require positive real interest rates to forsake current consumption and hand over their money. Of course, borrowers can only pay positive rates if their investments generate real positive earnings, usually on the back of a growing economy. At a real interest rate of zero, however, investments which do not foster growth may look attractive.

Currently the gas sector is going through a unique and challenging phase. In India the landscape is being altered by the needs of global energy suppliers, who are paying serious attention to the nation. With its high macroeconomic growth prospects and billion-plus population, India is confronted with concerns about energy security and environmental sustainability. Thus, Indian policymakers have begun to take a constructive look at policy enablement.