Pensions - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

people more prone to invest more frequently than they should is an open question. Even if this is the case, I think that for society this is a small price to pay for the enormous advantages that they have brought to all of us. The pension... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to provide for their retirement to a system in which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

wealth. By the end of 2007, sovereign wealth funds had around $2.6 trillion under management, more than all the world’s hedge funds, and not far behind government pension funds and central bank reserves. According to a forecast by Morgan... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

vice-chairman of the Blackstone Group, is the protagonist. At the time of the case, BAAM was considering two potential directions for future growth: 1) providing hedge fund products for the defined-contribution pension space and 2)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're getting public money, you're getting investor money, pension... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family offices, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

campaign urging shareholders to vote against the merger. However, the National Pension Service (NPS)—a major shareholder of Samsung C&T—votes in favor of the deal. The case sheds lights on the political ties between the government and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

ahead with new hires, even as pension and health care costs continued to rise. Cognetti says the teachers facing furloughs in Scranton have nothing to do with the financial mismanagement of previous years, which is what makes the layoffs... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

earlier Denmark has digital literacy for their entire 50-plus population every year. They have working longer. They have pension systems that are being revised around working longer. So changing a society is easier, obviously, when it's a... View Details

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the asset owner perspective, learning modern practices in portfolio construction for personal and institutional investors (family offices, endowments, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds). They examine portfolio construction and... View Details

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