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Why Do Firms Offer Risky Defined Benefit Pension Plans? [PDF]

open access: yes
Even risky pension sponsors could offer essentially riskless pension promises by contributing a sufficient level of resources to their pension trust funds and by investing those resources in fixed-income securities designed to deliver their payoffs just ...
David Love, David Wilcox, Paul Smith
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Should the Indonesian pension funds invest abroad? [PDF]

open access: yes
Currently, the Indonesian pension fund is prohibited from investing in international assets. In this paper, I quantitatively investigate the benefit and/or the cost, if any, caused by this constraint.
Kariastanto, Bayu
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State Capacity and Path Dependence in Cape Verde's Supreme Audit Institution

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines state capacity and path dependence in the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of Cape Verde, focussing on the performance and governance of the Court of Auditors. Drawing on a mixed‐methods longitudinal design covering the period from 2010 to 2024, the analysis combines international governance indicators, documentary analysis,
Ana Lúcia Romão
wiley   +1 more source

Konsep Pengelolaan Dana Pensiun Dalam Tinjauan Hukum Islam (Studi Kasus Dana Pensiun Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Pension fund is one of the non-bank financial institutions that manage and implement program that promise retirement benefits. Many people are together to become civil servants in order to get the benefits of retirement. But since the presence of Law No.
, Dr. Imron Rosyadi, M.Ag   +1 more
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Community perceptions and management of the fleshy‐fruited invasive alien plant Pyracantha angustifolia: Insights from South Africa's Montane grasslands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Invasive alien plants can provide economic or cultural benefits to local communities, influencing perceptions and potentially affecting management decisions. Understanding these perceptions is crucial to avoiding inefficiencies, misunderstandings and conflicts in the management of invasive alien species.
Lehlohonolo D. Adams   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inter- and Intra-generational Consequences of Pension Buffer Policy under Demographic, Financial and Economic Shocks [PDF]

open access: yes
We study numerically the inter- and intra-generational welfare consequences of alternative pension fund policies in response to unexpected demographic, financial and macro-economic shocks.
Alessandro Bucciol, Roel Beetsma
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Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
wiley   +1 more source

Savremeno naoružanje i vojna oprema za broj 3-2024

open access: yesVojnotehnički Glasnik
Raketa AIM-174, nova varijanta rakete SM-6; Ruski raketni sistem Rubež ...
Dragan M. Vučković
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Government guarantees on pension fund returns [PDF]

open access: yes
This report reviews defined contribution pension return guarantees typically made by governments in connection with pension privatizations. Finance theory related to the pricing of options provides a unifying framework for evaluating the cost of these ...
Pennacchi, Pennacchi, George
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source

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