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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pension provision of the Russian Federation: stages of development, achievements and shortcomings, directions of improvement by the example of the Department of the Social Fund of Russia in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic

open access: yesВестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета
The paper studies the peculiarities of the formation of the Russian pension system over the past 30 years. The key changes and stages of development are highlighted.
A. B. Urusova
doaj   +1 more source

Achieving simplicity, security and choice in retirement? An assessment of the government's proposed pensions reforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
On 17 December 2002, the government published a Department for Work and Pensions Green Paper about working and saving for retirementұ and a set of Inland Revenue proposals for reforms to the tax treatment of private pensions.2 Of the options explored in ...
Emmerson, C., Wakefield, M.
core   +1 more source

Media Attention to Climate Change and Investor Flows in US Equity Mutual Funds

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how climate‐related news influences mutual fund investor behaviour in the United States. Although prior research has documented the financial relevance of climate risks, little is known about how media attention to climate change shapes capital allocation across mutual funds.
Laura Andreu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Quest for Pension Reform: Poland's Security though Diversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
All over the world, pension systems have financing difficulties that need to be addressed. There are three ways of dealing with pension systems problems, namely subsidisation, rationalisation and reforming. Opposite to the first two, the latter one means
Gora, Marek, Rutkowski, Michael
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Canadian pension plans disadvantaged by the current structure of portfolio regulation? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We investigate the performance of Canadian pension funds relative to those from the UK and US, in the light of the ongoing quantitative asset restrictions that still apply in Canada, compared with the purer prudent person approach in the UK and US.
Davis, EP, Hu, YW
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Stock Exchange ESG Disclosure Guidance and Corporate Carbon Mitigation: International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the tangible impact of the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure guidance by stock exchanges on corporate carbon mitigation, focusing on six major frameworks: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate Related ...
Jiamian Yan, Le Luo, Nuraddeen Nuhu
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation Model of Private Pension Fund Activity on the Basis of the Theory of fractals Модели оценки деятельности НПФ на основе теории фракталoв [PDF]

open access: yesProblemi Ekonomiki, 2012
The article is devoted to the problem of evaluation of the dynamics of indicators of non-state pension funds activities of Ukraine on the basis of the fractals theory application.Статья посвящена проблеме оценки динамики показателей деятельности ...
Prokopovich Svetlana V.   +1 more
doaj  

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