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  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

finance, and electronic trading, which brought new market participants. Some of these new participants, such as pension funds, were significantly larger and had different strategic agendas than the traditional agricultural-related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

themselves may be conflicted. They often have very large contracts in the very same companies for pension work, for instance. Moreover, the use of consultants (and the way it's done in a lot of companies) creates what I call "the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

pension money into equities, effectively nationalizing a piece of the market. Fortunately, the stock market is a rather small part of China’s economy. The total market capitalization is less than a third of GDP against the 100 percent or... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

States, where the ability to fund infrastructure is less obvious than it may seem at first glance. The infrastructure paradox There is plenty of capital in the global financial system: upward of US $20 trillion invested in fixed income securities alone between View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-067 Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly 24 (December 2007) Abstract Traditional conventions of accounting and actuarial science distort the valuation of capital risk in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

afloat, but just barely. The banks were recapitalized three times, and Greece lost a full quarter of its GDP, which—like the brain drain of about 420,000 Greeks who left the country to seek employment elsewhere—has yet to come back. Those who stayed suffered through... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 15 Sep 2020
  • News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently. There is the state and local... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

from this short-term fixation. Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

as mutual funds and pensions that wanted to invest in those securities. Investment banks also provided advice on mergers and acquisitions. In the early 1980s the derivative markets were quite small and relatively unsophisticated, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

be explained by choosers' behavioral biases or informational limitations. These explanations imply that absent behavioral or informational effects, larger menus would be objectively better. However, in an important economic context-401(k) View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 04 Aug 2020
  • News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

sectors. And then I think—perhaps a story that is still emerging—are asset allocators, sovereign funds, pension funds that are steadily embracing what are called, you know, ESG principles (environmental, social, governance criteria) and... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

case:http://hbr.org/search/812177-PDF-ENG Altoona State Investment Board: July 2012 Lerner, Josh, and Nathaniel BurbankHarvard Business School Case 813-100 Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

in defined-contribution pension plans, such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

minimize the impact of taxes on their investors’ returns. The assignment was complicated as KSW had different categories of investors (a sovereign wealth fund, pension funds, and high net worth individuals) each of which had different tax... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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