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Finance and occupational pensions = theories and international evidence /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Finance and occupational pensions/ by Charles Sutcliffe.
Reminder of title:	theories and international evidence /
Author:	Sutcliffe, Charles.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xiv, 317 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Old age pensions. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94863-5
ISBN:	9781349948635

Finance and occupational pensions = theories and international evidence /
Sutcliffe, Charles.

Finance and occupational pensionstheories and international evidence /[electronic resource] :by Charles Sutcliffe. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xiv, 317 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Part 1. Introduction to Pension Schemes -- Part 2. Selected Pension Scheme Topics -- Part 3. Investment and Pension Schemes -- Part 4. Corporate Finance and Pension Schemes -- Part 5. Annuities.

Occupational pensions are major participants in global financial markets with assets of well over $30 trillion, representing more than 40% of the assets of institutional investors. Some occupational pension funds control assets of over $400 billion, and the largest 300 occupational pension funds each have average assets of over $50 billion. The assets of UK pension funds are equivalent to UK GDP, and US pension fund assets are 83% of US GDP. These statistics highlight the importance of pension funds as major players in financial markets, and the need to understand the behaviour of these large institutional investors. Occupational pensions also play an important, but neglected, role in corporate finance. For example, US company pension schemes account for over 60% of company market value, and yet they are often ignored when analysing companies. This book is based on the substantial body of evidence available from around the world on a topic that has become increasingly important and controversial in recent years. Written for practitioners, students and academics, this book brings together and systematizes a very large international literature from financial economists, actuaries, practitioners, professional organizations, official documents and reports. The underlying focus is the application of the principles of financial economics to occupational pensions, including the work of Nobel laureates such as Merton, Markowitz, Modigliani, Miller and Sharpe, as well as Black. This book will give readers an up-to-date understanding of occupational pensions, the economic issues they face, and some suggestions of how these issues can be tackled. The first section explains the operation of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, along with some descriptive statistics. The second section covers selected aspects of occupational pensions. The focus of these first two sections is on the economic and financial aspects of pensions, accompanied by some basic information on how they operate. This is followed by three further sections that analyse the investment of pension funds, the corporate finance implications of firms providing pensions for their employees, and annuities.

ISBN: 9781349948635

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-349-94863-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

555026
Old age pensions.

LC Class. No.: HD7105.3 / .S87 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 331.252

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