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Analyzing how to reduce financial reliance of retirement organization of municipality of Tehran on financial assistance of municipality [PDF]

Management Science Letters, 2014
Pension funds play essential role on retirements of people who work for governmental and private organizations and it is always important to reduce any existing risks associated with pension funds.
Asadollah Afshary, Mohammad Sadegh Mohagheghynia   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

How can welfare regime and production regime theories explain differences in schools’ ability grouping policies? A comparative study using the PISA school survey

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg, Girma Berhanu, Lena Fridlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

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, Paola Campana, Fulvio Schettino, Chiara De Pucchio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy transfer and lesson drawing. The case of the pension system reform in Mexico

Estudios Gerenciales, 2012
The article's objective is to analyze the development and evolution of the Mexican pension reform not only as such but also of two main bodies: on the one hand, the regulator (the National Saving for Retirement) and the other, from the pension fund ...
Jorge Enrique Culebro Moreno, Dr.Polit
doaj   +1 more source

Latin American private pension funds’ vulnerabilities [PDF]

Economia Mexicana NUEVA EPOCA, 2011
In the last years, we have been witnesses of significant large rates of return in most Latin-American private pension fund institutions (PPF). This outstanding performance of funds can be explained by an economic boom in the region. However, these funds have lately been hampered in some countries, something that contrasts with the successful ...
openaire   +1 more source

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, Luisa‐Eugenia Reyes, Marisol Carvajal Camperos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Investments in Financial Assets Affect the Financial Performance of Pension Firms? Evidence from Nigeria

Revista Científica Profundidad Construyendo Futuro
Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) play an essential part in the management of pension funds that guarantee retirees’ comfortability and welfare after life of active service years.
Ginika Nnewogo LINUS, Lukman Adebayo-Oke ABDULRAUF, Adedeji Daniel GBADEBO, Joseph Olorunfemi AKANDE   +3 more
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Effects of Gainsharing Provisions on the Selection of a Discount Rate for a Defined Benefit Pension Plan

Risks, 2017
This paper examines the effect of gainsharing provisions on the selection of a discount rate for a defined benefit pension plan. The paper uses a traditional actuarial approach of discounting liabilities using the expected return of the associated ...
Robert J. Rietz, Evan Cronick, Shelby Mathers, Matt Pollie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
wiley   +1 more source