You will never win a bidding war against the banks, the multinationals and the visa. Stop fighting on the salary line — and start winning on the deal. The Problem, Lived “Omar” runs a fourteen-person IT services firm in Kingston, and by any fair measure he is one of the best developers of young talent...
Almost every Caribbean territory runs a national social security scheme, and almost all face the same arithmetic: an ageing population, a shrinking contributor base, and benefits that will one day outrun the money coming in. The actuary’s task is to say when — and what it would take to change the answer. Nearly every...
Beyond pensions, IAS 19 captures gratuities, long-service awards, post-retirement medical cover and accumulated leave. Unfunded and long-dated, these obligations are routinely under-provided — until an actuary measures them properly. Most boards know there is a number on their balance sheet for the pension plan. Far fewer are confident about the other employee-benefit obligations sitting beside...
A defined-benefit pension can be the largest financial risk an organisation carries — quiet for years, then suddenly decisive. De-risking is how a board takes control before circumstances do. A defined-benefit pension is one of the longest promises an organisation can make. It commits an employer, often decades in advance, to pay a member...
The partnership model was the pyramid’s profit engine — equity concentrated at the apex, funded by the leverage of everyone below it. In the diamond, the people who now create the value no longer own the firm. Closing that gap is the most sensitive economics of the entire transition. PART III · THE HARD IMPLICATIONS...
This is the third of four papers in The Caribbean Actuarial Imperative, an editorial series from Dawgen Global — an independent, integrated, multidisciplinary professional services firm spanning eleven service disciplines across more than fifteen Caribbean territories. The first paper introduced the Long‑Horizon Test for identifying the board decisions whose financial consequences extend beyond the quarterly...
C | Context Two Caribbean financial services institutions, of comparable scale but materially different cultures, had agreed a merger that would produce a larger, more competitive regional platform. The transaction had closed; regulatory approvals had been obtained; the combined entity had a new brand, a new board, and a Chief Executive drawn from one of...
The Payroll Obligation Every Employer Carries The moment a Jamaican business hires its first employee, it assumes a comprehensive set of statutory obligations that must be met every month for the entire duration of that employment relationship. These obligations extend far beyond the payment of wages — they encompass the accurate calculation, deduction, and remittance...
The workforce is simultaneously the largest cost and the largest competitive differentiator in Caribbean retail — yet it receives less analytical rigour than inventory management, less governance discipline than cash controls, and less formal measurement than promotional ROI. PEOPLEMETRICS™ corrects that imbalance with the same evidence-based discipline that every other domain of the D·RIS™ framework...
Caribbean executives who treat HR restructuring as a cost-reduction exercise — rather than a survival strategy — are destroying the organisational capability they need to recover. The stakes could not be higher. You can restructure your balance sheet perfectly and still fail — if you lose the people who make your business run, or if...
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