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Pension fund excellence : creating value for stockholders
- Title
- Pension fund excellence : creating value for stockholders / Keith P. Ambachtsheer, D. Don Ezra.
- Author
- Ambachtsheer, Keith P.
- Publication
- New York : Wiley, [1998], ©1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ezra, D. Don.
- Description
- xv, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Pension Fund Excellence presents a guiding paradigm for articulating a fund's mission and for what needs to be done to accomplish it.
- Along the way, the authors provide new insights on fundamental issues. What key elements integrate pension fund governance, management, and operations? What decision structure does an excellent pension fund organization use? What do the best decision-makers know about fiduciary responsibilities, pension economics, and the markets for financial capital and investment management services? What policies do they adopt? How do they measure results and tie results to compensation?
- How should small funds face their special challenges? Their advice is made practical through real-world case studies that focus on the best practices employed by the world's premier pension funds. Their clear focus is on creating value for stakeholders.
- Series Statement
- Wiley frontiers in finance
- Uniform Title
- Wiley frontiers in finance.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Pension Funds as Financial Businesses: The New "Excellence" Paradigm. 1. The Coming Era of Pension Fund Capitalism. 2. How Good Is Pension Fund Management? 3. Mapping the Road to Excellence -- Pt. 2. What Every Pension Fund Fiduciary Should Know ... or Have a View on. 4. What Fiduciaries Should Know about Pension Law and Pension Economics. 5. What Fiduciaries Should Know about Capital Markets. 6. What Fiduciaries Should Know about the Investment Management Services Market -- Pt. 3. Managing the Pension Fund Business. 7. Effective Pension Fund Governance. 8. The Right Funding Policy. 9. The Right Asset Allocation Policy. 10. Creating Value through Policy Implementation. 11. From Data to Information to Knowledge. 12. Managing Small Pension Funds -- Pt. 4. Excellence in Action: Four Case Studies. 13. Excellence in Action: The Teachers' Pension Fund. 14. Excellence in Action: HiTechCo, Mid-West Resources Pension Fund, and the Yale University Investments Office --
- Pt. 5. Pension Funds in the Twenty-First Century Three Critical Issues. 15. Defined Contribution Plans Are Different, But Are They Better? 16. Fixing "Broke" National Pension Schemes. 17. Pension Funds, Politics, and Power.
- ISBN
- 0471246557 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97045105
- OCLC
- ocm37902414
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries