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Evidence of active management of private voluntary pension funds in Colombia: a perfomance analysis using proxy ETFS [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to find evidence that shows that either activemanagement of private pension funds in Colombia actually adds value tothe investors or, on the contrary, investors would achieve better results ifthey invested in passively ...
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Current Features and Future Problems of the Italian Pension System [PDF]
The paper analyzes the issue of the financial sustainability of the Italian Pension System in the long-run, by discussing the main reforms occurred in the last few years and by examining some recent data: in particular, the data of the Italian Agency for
Scopelliti, Alessandro Diego
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The trouble with pensions: Toward an alternative public policy to support retirement [PDF]
, 2010 Pension funds have taken a big hit during the current financial crisis, with losses in the trillions of dollars. In addition, both private and public pensions are experiencing significant funding shortfalls, as is the government-run Pension Benefit ...
Nersisyan, Yeva, Wray, L. Randall
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Efficiency of the investment policy and the policy of increasing contributions in maintaining the long-term funding of occupational pension plans [PDF]
Bankarstvo, 2020 Defined benefit occupational pension plans are facing long-term challenges in maintaining the funding level required by the pension system regulation.
Stojković Dragan, Luković Stevan
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Why don’t Latvian pension funds diversify more internationally? [PDF]
Latvian employees have to choose a pension fund for the second-pillar of the Latvian pension system. These pension funds invest about 85% in domestic assets. In this paper, we address the question why this strong home bias might exist.
Swinkels, L.A.P., Vejina, D., Vilans, R.
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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Investment Policy: Issues for Congress [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is a federal corporation established under Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA, P.L. 93-406). The PBGC insures private pension beneficiaries against the complete
Kinneen, Kelly, Purcell, Patrick
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Judicial Review: Substance and Procedure
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In this article we distinguish two questions about judicial review. First, substance: what acts or decisions are properly subject to the grounds of review? Second, procedure: what acts or decisions are properly reviewable through the judicial review procedure? Then we settle both.
Adam Perry, Angelo Ryu
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