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Why don’t Latvian pension funds diversify more internationally? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
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. (Laurens)   +2 more
core  

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

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

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  

Real Returns of Private Pension Funds in Colombia

open access: yesCuadernos de Administración, 2019
On the performance of the private pensions system in Colombia, Individual Savings Regime with Solidarity - RAIs (per its acronym in Spanish), the results are often highlighted in terms of profitability; a thesis upheld by the fund Managers industry. In order to evaluate how significant the real returns generated by this scheme have actually been, from ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The 1997 pension reform in Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes
In 1995-96, Mexico shifted to a multipillar approach to old-age security. The objective of the publicly managed first pillar is redistribution; a fully-funded second pillar provides for mandatory individual savings accounts and competitive but exclusive ...
Cerda, Luis   +2 more
core  

The Dallas Public Pension Crisis: A Warning for Cities Across Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the brief, LJAF Vice President Josh McGee and LJAF Sustainable Public Finance Analyst Paulina S. Diaz Aguirre explain that unless local leaders take immediate steps to pay down the pension debt and address the plans' underlying systemic flaws, the ...
Josh McGee, Paulina S. Diaz Aguirre
core  

Capital and the Family

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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  

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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