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Title Governance and investment of public pension assets [electronic resource] : practitioners' perspectives / editors, Sudhir Rajkumar, Mark C. Dorfman.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011.

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Description xvi, 343 p. : ill. (some col.).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Summary and key messages -- Key principles of governance and investment management -- Governance of public pension assets -- Governance structures and accountabilities -- Qualification, selection, and operation of governing bodies -- Operational policies and procedures -- Managing fiscal pressures in defined-benefit schemes -- Policy responses to turbulent financial markets -- Investment of public pension assets -- Defining the investment policy framework for public pension funds -- Managing risk for different cohorts in defined contribution schemes -- An asset-liability approach to strategic asset allocation for pension funds -- In-house investment versus outsourcing to external investment managers -- International investments and managing the resulting currency risk -- Alternative asset classes and new investment themes.
Summary And key messages -- Key principles of governance and investment management -- Governance of public pension assets -- Governance structures and accountabilities -- Qualification, selection, and operation of governing bodies -- Operational policies and procedures -- Managing fiscal pressures in defined-benefit schemes -- Policy responses to turbulent financial markets -- Investment of public pension assets -- Defining the investment policy framework for public pension funds -- Managing risk for different cohorts in defined-contribution schemes -- An asset-liability approach to strategic asset allocation for pension funds -- In-house investment versus outsourcing to external investment managers -- International investments and managing the resulting currency risk -- Alternative asset classes and new investment themes.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Pension trusts.
Pension trusts -- Investments.
Financial crises -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rajkumar, Sudhir.
Dorfman, Mark C.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780821384701 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821384708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821384718 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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