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British 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
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A new form of Polish occupational pension schemes: Prospects for development
Journal of Economics and Management, 2019 Aim/purpose – Occupational pension schemes are products which seem to create the opportunity for better retirement provision. In Poland, they have not gained a great popularity so far, but now, Polish pension system stands at the threshold of change as ...
Gumola Małgorzata
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Media Attention to Climate Change and Investor Flows in US Equity Mutual Funds
Business 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
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World Experience of Pension Guarantees in Voluntary Pension Plans [PDF]
Финансовый журнал, 2019 The article deals with the provision of pension guarantees in voluntary pension systems. The importance of guarantees is due to the increasing role of non-state pension systems in international practice.
Kristina V. Shvandar +1 more
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, 2000 Abstract The growth of pension funds has been nothing short of astronomical. Pension funds now dominate the world’s financial markets, affecting nations’ wealth, community development, and industrial well being. Yet little is known about their structure and organization.
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Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors
Business 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
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Do analysts underreact to pension underfunding? Evidence from forecast bias and funding ratios of DB plans in Korea [PDF]
Seonmul yeonguThis study aims to empirically investigate the relationship between the funding status of defined benefit (DB) pension plans and the forecast bias of financial analysts.
Jung-Hee Noh, Heejin Park
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The Finnish Pension System and Its Future Challenges
Intereconomics, 2020 A specific feature in the Finnish pension system is rule-based preparation for mortality change. The earned pension capital is adjusted to life expectancy and the lowest age limit of the flexible retirement age will be adapted so that the ratio of ...
Tarmo Valkonen
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, 2017 The Lusaka Securities exchange (LuSE) is one of the developing stock markets in Africa. As of 2015 it had only 22 listed companies with the market capitalization of about 5849 million dollars.
Nsama Musawa, Clement Mwaanga
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises
Business 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
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