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How can welfare regime and production regime theories explain differences in schools’ ability grouping policies? A comparative study using the PISA school survey

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tools for testing the Solvency Capital Requirement for life insurance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Longevity risk is one of the major risks that an insurance company or a pension fund has to deal with and it is expected that its importance will grow in the near future.
Coppola, Mariarosaria   +1 more
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To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

A Guide to Understanding the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Although the federal government\u27s Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has been providing pension insurance for nearly 30 years, the agency\u27s financial situation has been particularly volatile over the past decade and has deteriorated ...
Congressional Budget Office
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Institutional Ownership and Corporate Sustainability Performance—A Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between institutional ownership (IO) and corporate sustainability performance (SP), addressing inconsistent findings in prior research and clarifying the boundary conditions of this relationship by testing a defined set of potential moderators.
Hans Henrik Scherer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE IMPACT OF THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE PENSION FUND ASSETS EXPRESSED BY TREASURY BONDS ON PUBLIC FINANCE

open access: yesContemporary Economy, 2015
The aim of the nationalization of the pension fund assets expressed by treasury bonds was accounting reducing of open level of public debts and thus avoid exceeding the second prudential threshold according to national methodology to GDP.
Paweł Szczepanik
doaj  

Ottawa's Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-reported Cost of Federal Employee Pensions [PDF]

open access: yes
Canadian public-sector pension plans typically do not use market yields to calculate their liabilities: if they did, Ottawa’s unfunded pension liability would stand at $227 billion – some $80 billion larger than reported in the Public Accounts. The value
Alexandre Laurin, William B.P. Robson
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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

Optimal Investment Strategies and Performance Sharing Rules for Pension Schemes with Minimum Guarantee [PDF]

open access: yes
There is a potential conflict of interest between a pension fund sponsor and future pensioners when they share unequally in the pension fund performance.
Jacques Pézier, Johanna Scheller
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Stabilization and savings funds to manage natural resource revenues: Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan vs. Norway [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Do the sovereign wealth funds of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan promote the sustainable use of government oil revenues? We review the operational rules and performance of the two funds and compare them to Norway's Government Pension Fund Global.
Lücke, Matthias
core  

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