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Technical Efficiency and Heterogeneity of Argentina Pension Funds [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the technical efficiency of Argentinean pension funds management companies using a random stochastic frontier model to rank the pension funds management companies, taking into account heterogeneity in the data.
Carlos Romero   +2 more
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UK pension funds’ patience and liquidity in the age of market-based finance

open access: yes, 2023
Pension funds have often failed to meet expectations in terms of providing ‘patient capital’. Explanations for this lapse have ranged over regulatory and ideational factors.
Kaltenbrunner, Annina   +11 more
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Firm‐Size Heterogeneity in the Effects of ESG Disclosure on Firm Value Under Institutional Reform: Evidence From Japan

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on firm‐size heterogeneity, this study examines how institutional reform reshapes the effects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure on firm value. Using 2019–2023 panel data on 1427 Japanese listed firms (before and after the 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange reorganization and Corporate Governance Code revision), this ...
Akio Nakashima, Kimitaka Nishitani
wiley   +1 more source

The Power to Deduct Pension Benefits Under Lesotho’s Pension Funds Act: Lessons from South Africa and Eswatini

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The changing demands of society and the emergence of new challenges necessitate the constant evolution and improvement of legal frameworks. In November 2019 Lesotho adopted the Pension Funds Act 5 of 2019 to modernise its regulation and supervision of ...
Mtende Mhango, Teron Rikhotso
doaj   +1 more source

PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOLUNTARY PENSION FUNDS IN SERBIA BY APPLYING THE MATHEMATICAL METHOD OF LINEAR REGRESSION [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Social Development (Varaždin), 2021
The introduction of private pension funds, which operate with the state pension fund, is the essence of the reform of the pension system in Serbia. Private pension funds are based on voluntary benefits.
Ivan D. Radojkovic   +2 more
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Private Pension Funds in Hungary: Politics, Institutions, and Performance [PDF]

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The new pension system launched in Hungary in 1998 is epoch-making for having introduced a mandatory private pension scheme (MPPS). However, the political decision-making on pension reform and the scheme operations have been greatly influenced by ...
Iwasaki, Ichiro, Sato, Kazuko
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Evaluation of Governance, Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Financial Dimensions Through an Integrated Multicriteria Decision‐Making Approach

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable governance depends on the joint functioning of institutional quality, fiscal discipline, environmental performance, and socioeconomic inclusion. However, many composite indicators rely on subjective weighting schemes and leave the structural role of governance underspecified.
Ömer Faruk Rençber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pension funds. asset allocation and participant age: a test of the life-cycle model [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the impact of participants. age distribution on the asset allocation of Dutch pension funds, using a unique data set of pension fund investment plans for 2007.
Dirk W.G.A. Broeders   +3 more
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Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pension funds – main institutional investor on the Romanian capital market? [PDF]

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In this article, the authors emphasize the very important role that institutional investors, under the form of pension funds, hold for the development of capital markets existing in the economy and for supporting the financing process of institutional ...
Laura Raisa MILOS, Carmen CORDUNEANU
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