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Private equity as an asset class in an institutional portfolio: a South African perspective

, 2012
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This paper provides evidence about institutional investors’ attitudes and perceptions of private equity as an investment asset class in South Africa.
Ngwane, A
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Cost‐effectiveness of in‐hospital motivational smoking cessation counselling and proactive referral to community‐based follow‐up

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aim In a randomised open‐label trial among hospitalised patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease, motivational smoking cessation counselling with proactive referral to community‐based follow‐up was more effective than brief cessation advice and written information, with 6‐month continuous abstinence rates of 49.5% vs. 24.5%
Karin Pleym, Ingrid Engebretsen, Elise Sverre, Toril Dammen, Einar Huseby, Mohpal Singh Kahlon, Marie Stugaard, Henrik Støvring, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, John Munkhaugen   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Macroeconomic Framework of the Functioning of Public Compulsory Pension Insurance

Economic Analysis, 2017
Unfavorable demographic trends, economic and political crisis created the need to analyze the current situation in the pension system and created the concept of the modern system.
Gordana Đukić, Mladenka Balaban, Goran Radisavljević   +2 more
doaj  

Pension Fund Investment Policy [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to survey what is known about the investment policy of pension funds. Pension fund investment policy depends critically on the type of plan: defined contribution versus defined benefit.
Zvi Bodie
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

Why and how is private equity involved in assisted living community development and operations? [PDF]

Health Aff Sch
Carder P, Dys S, Kohon JN, Bowblis JR, Singh Y, Huang SS, Bunker JN, Smith L, Rahman M, Thomas KS.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The 1997 pension reform in Mexico [PDF]

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 ...
Grandolini, Cerda, Luis, Grandolini, Gloria   +2 more
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Public virtue, private ambition—Women owners of private hospitals in early twentieth‐century New Zealand

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract New Zealand's early‐twentieth‐century health service was a two‐tier system of state hospitals supported by an expanding network of over 300 private hospitals, almost exclusively owned by nurses and midwives. This article will show that this environment was created by a legislative framework introduced between 1901 and 1906, requiring nurses ...
Ann‐Marie Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

Capitalising (on) industrial epidemics: examining the influence of the 'Big Three' asset managers on corporate governance in key health-harming commodity industries. [PDF]

Global Health
Wood B, Slater S, Friel S, Schram A, Frank N, Sacks G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source