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Household saving rates and the design of public pension programmes: cross-country evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
I argue that the offsetting effect of public pension contributions on household retirement saving depends on how closely the public pension programme imitates a private retirement saving plan (i.e. the ‘actuarial’ content of the public pension programme)
Richard Disney
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CLAIMING SOCIAL HOUSING FUTURES: Value, Risk and the Temporal Politics of Income Strip Financing in London

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
wiley   +1 more source

DEVELOPMENT OF NON-STATE PENSION FUNDS IN RUSSIA

open access: yesВестник университета, 2019
The article discusses dynamics of the number of non-state pension funds and changes of main indicators of their activities under the new pension legislation.
A. Talykova
doaj  

Regulating private pension funds’ structure, performance and investments: cross-country evidence

open access: yes
A number of countries have introduced individual, privately managed defined-contribution accounts, where the value of the pension benefit will depend on accumulated contributions and investment returns.
Yermo, Juan   +2 more
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Pension reform in the UK : re-casting the public/private mix in pension provision 1997-2000

open access: yes, 2002
The UK is one of the few countries in Europe that is not facing a serious pension crisis. The reasons for this are straight forward: state pensions (both in terms of replacement ratio and as a proportion of average earnings) are among the lowest in ...
Fawcett, Helen
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

DEVELOPMENT OF NON-STATE PENSION FUNDS IN RUSSIA

open access: yesВестник университета, 2016
The article discusses dynamics of the number of non-state pension funds and changes of main indicators of their activities under the new pension legislation.
A. Talykova
doaj  

Evidence of active management of private voluntary pension funds in Colombia: a perfomance analysis using proxy ETFS [PDF]

open access: yes
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 ...
EDGARDO CAYÓN FALLÓN   +2 more
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The social life of money for children

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric Shocks and Pension Fund Volatility: A GARCH Approach with Macroeconomic Predictors to an Unexplored Emerging Market

open access: yesMathematics
Financial stability analysis requires volatility modeling, especially in emerging nations where pension fund systems are very vulnerable to macrofinancial risks.
Cristiana Tudor   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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