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Does the board of a pension fund in South Africa perform a public function or exercise public power when determining death claims under section 37C of the Pension Funds Act?

open access: yesDe Jure, 2021
This article examines whether a board of a pension fund performs a public function or exercises public power when it determines death claims under section 37C of the Pension Funds Act (PFA). The article considers recent jurisprudence around this question
Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango
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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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Toward Faster Recalls of Dangerous Medical Devices: Does Ownership by Large Institutional Investors Matter?

open access: yesJournal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recall delays expose consumers to prolonged risk and undermine a firm's long‐term performance and reputation. Building on agency theory's conceptualization of principal‐agent relationships, we theorize that large institutional investors play an important monitoring role wherein their ownership encourages faster recalls. We then build on agency
Jessica L. Darby   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Place of Private Pension Funds in the Financial Market

open access: yesAsian Social Science, 2015
Contemporary Russian pension system was influenced by the social, economic and demographic factors, astypical in most developed countries and only our country. Development of the pension system only within thestate pension insurance for 20 years has shown its failure, in connection with what has recently acquired greatimportance to private pension ...
Natalia Borisovna Pochinok   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Pension funds – main institutional investor on the Romanian capital market? [PDF]

open access: yes
In this article, the authors emphasize the very important role that institutional investors, under the form of pension funds, hold for the development of capital markets existing in the economy and for supporting the financing process of institutional ...
Laura Raisa MILOS, Carmen CORDUNEANU
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The substantial economic burden of rotator cuff pathology: A nationwide cost‐of‐illness study

open access: yesKnee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the nationwide economic burden of rotator cuff (RC) pathology by quantifying expenditures related to outpatient consultations including out‐of‐pocket expenses, hospitalisations and occupational insurance claims, within a national healthcare system.
Umile Giuseppe Longo   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

REGIONAL DYNAMICS OF PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS IN ROMANIA [PDF]

open access: yes
The number of participants in the private pension funds, as well as the volume of their contribution, differs significant in each development region. It goes without saying that the territorial distribution of the indicators related to pension funds are ...
Dan Constantinescu
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Opening the Black Box of Nonprofit Reputation and Volunteer Attraction With Supervised Machine Learning

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the aim to explore the potential of machine learning for nonprofit research, this article contrasts traditional linear regression with four contemporary supervised machine learning approaches. Concretely, we predict (1) reputation ratings and (2) the total number of volunteers for 4021 non‐profit organizations in the U.S.
Moritz Schmid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The legal nature of Civil Servants Pension Fund's Assets [PDF]

open access: yesدانشنامه حقوق اقتصادی
Pension funds play a vital and critical role in financing consumption in the retirement era in modern economies. In their maturity process, they accumulate assets from collected payrolls of members to make them able to cover part of their liabilities in ...
Mojtaba Ghasemi, Ahmad Panjeh Por
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PENSION FUNDS AND CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT:HOW MUCH BANG FOR THE BUCK? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the relation between institutional investors and capital market development by analyzing unique data on monthly asset-level portfolio allocations of Chilean pension funds between 1995 and 2005. The results depict pension funds as large
Raddatz, Claudio, Schmukler, Sergio L.
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