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What Should the Board of Management of a Pension Fund Consider when Dealing with Death Claims Involving Surviving Cohabitants? [PDF]
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2010 This note argues that the Adjudicator’s determination Hlathi should be welcomed by the pension funds industry because it clarifies the uncertain legal position that emerged in the wake of the judgment in Volks.
M Mhlangu
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A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] Private equity, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and other private pools of capital form part of the growing shadow banking system in the United States; these new financial intermediaries provide an alternative investment mechanism to the ...
Appelbaum, Eileen
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher +2 more
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Corporate Sustainability Transition: Methodological Analysis for a Rating Model
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study introduces a new rating model for the evaluation of corporate sustainability, addressing the inconsistencies and divergences that characterize current ESG assessment systems. The model is hierarchically structured, comprising 99 indicators organized into 19 modules, and is designed to be adaptable by sector and firm size.
Riccardo Censi +3 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pension plans may either limit their sustainability approach to commercial purposes or adopt governance practices aligned with sustainability principles, thereby strengthening their Corporate Social Identity (CSI). This paper explores the moderating role of CSI in the relationship between traditional corporate governance mechanisms and pension
Elisa Bocchialini +2 more
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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi +2 more
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Fees, Fees and More Fees: How Private Equity Abuses its Limited Partners and U.S. Taxpayers [PDF]
, 2016 The private equity industry receives billions of dollars in income each year from a variety of fees that it collects from investors as well as from companies it buys with investors' money.
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt
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CEO Overconfidence, Industry Competition, and ESG Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay among CEO overconfidence, industry competition, and firms' ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance. With the growing importance of ESG management, firms are investing more in ESG initiatives as a strategic approach to mitigating downside risk. However, overconfident CEOs, characterized by their
Taehyung Kim, Jaeseog Na
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Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment With Social and Environmental Benefit [PDF]
, 2012 Explores policy options to maximize impact investing opportunities for institutional investors and accelerate the development of impact investing practices and products.
Ben Thornley, David Wood, Katie Grace
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The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs [PDF]
, 2020 The deregulation of securities laws—in particular the National Securities Markets Improvement Act (NSMIA) of 1996—has increased the supply of private capital to late-stage private startups, which are now able to grow to a size that few private firms used
Ewens, Michael, Farre-Mensa, Joan
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