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Sponsor Bias in Pension Fund Administrative Expenses: The Brazilian Experience [PDF]

BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2018
Previous literature has reported that pension funds sponsored by public organizations present greater administrative expenses when compared to similar pension funds sponsored by private organizations.
Claudio Marcio Pereira da Cunha
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SECOND PILLAR COMPONENT ON OLD AGE PENSION IN LITHUANIA

Ekonomika, 2013
. The aim of the study was is to evaluate the impact of a privately accumulated second pillar component on old-age pension. This evaluation is based on quantitative, statistical data and qualitative analysis of pension accumulation results in second ...
Teodoras Medaiskis, Tadas Gudaitis
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Macroeconomic Impact of Pension System Upon Private Pension Funds Scheme. Empirical Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries

Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2021
The significance of retirement savings and private pension funds increased in the latest decades and gathered important amounts of capitals. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the macroeconomic effects of pension systems from an investment ...
Dumiter Florin Cornel, Jimon Ștefania Amalia, Balteș Nicolae   +2 more
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The Role of Pension Funds on Capital Market Growth in the New EU Member States

Ekonomista, 2022
The main goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of pension funds on capital market development in 11 new EU member states1 (NMS ) from Central and Eastern Europe, using annual data from 2010 to 2020.
Gazmore Rexhepi, Burim Gashi
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Pension funds: conceptions of risk and the demand for ‘alternatives’

Revista de Economía Mundial, 2017
The expansion and innovation of financial markets is closely linked to the growth of pension funds. While the conventional narrative is based on the notion of financial development as a positive change, this paper argues that pension funds may induce ...
Bruno Bonizzi, Jennifer Churchill
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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The human foundations of anatomy at The University of Sydney: One hundred and one years of body procurement

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Body procurement at The University of Sydney has a long history. Anatomy legislation (1881 Anatomy Act) modeled on the British Anatomy Act 1832 legalized procurement of unclaimed bodies from public institutions for anatomical dissection at licensed Schools of Anatomy, effectively conferring the University of Sydney an exclusive license until ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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The Power to Deduct Pension Benefits Under Lesotho’s Pension Funds Act: Lessons from South Africa and Eswatini

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The changing demands of society and the emergence of new challenges necessitate the constant evolution and improvement of legal frameworks. In November 2019 Lesotho adopted the Pension Funds Act 5 of 2019 to modernise its regulation and supervision of ...
Mtende Mhango, Teron Rikhotso
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Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
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Evidence of active management of private voluntary pension funds in Colombia: a performance analysis using proxy ETFs

Estudios Gerenciales, 2010
The purpose of this study is to find evidence that shows that either active management of private pension funds in Colombia actually adds value to the investors or, on the contrary, investors would achieve better results if they invested in passively ...
Edgardo Cayón Fallón
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