Author: Les Leopold
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Keywords: jobs, destroyed, pensions, prosperity, mdash, finance, fantasy, america, wall, street, game, looting
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1603582053
ISBN-13: 9781603582056

"I loved this book. A worms’-eye dissection of the Wall Street crisis from a very sharp and very knowledgeable labor economist. Here’s hoping that before the Washington consensus gets set in stone, policymakers will read it and reflect on the havoc the masters of the universe have wreaked on ordinary people."--Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash and Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes HappenHow could the best and brightest (and most highly paid) in finance crash the global economy and then

Authors:Michael S. Gordon, Olivia S. Mitchell, Twinney Marc
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: research, council, publications, pension, century, pensions, twenty, first, positioning
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0812233913
ISBN-13: 9780812233919

As the United States comes to terms with the pending insolvency of social security, workers are increasingly pinning their hopes for retirement adequacy on employer-sponsored plans. Positioning Pensions for the Twenty-First Century analyzes the role of pensions in retirement security, examining how these programs will evolve to meet the challenges to our nation’s retirement system.The book brings together a team of leading economists, corporate and labor specialists, actuaries, and policy experts to examine the future of retirement options within the context of emerging labor and busines

Authors:Wayne H. Wagner, Ralph A. Rieves,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: deficits, growth, wiley, finance, pensions, funding, management, meeting, noble, challenges, investment
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2009-08-10
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0470455942
ISBN-13: 9780470455944

Praise for Investment Management "A compelling analysis of the challenges of investment management, and why investment management firms require innovation to succeed." —Blake Grossman, CEO, Barclays Global Investors "Great investment managers understand that positioning portfolios for clients should not be an act of conformity, but rather a constant journey of shifting fundamentals and opinion. Wayne and Ralph bring this fact to life by addressing some of the key challenges to serious investment thinking, using top-level researchers in their respective fields. For those inve

Authors:Zvi Bodie, Olivia Mitchell, John A. Turner,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: pension, research, council, publications, perspective, international, employer, based, pensions, securing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0812233344
ISBN-13: 9780812233346

As the world’s population ages, millions will rely on their pension plans as the mainstay of retirement income. This book asks whether supply will meet demand in the new economic order. Pension systems in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the U.S. are compared, along with those in many developing nations. This volume is intended for employees and managers, pension policymakers, actuaries and lawyers, and benefits consultants, all of whom are busy changing their pension structures to meet global challenges.Sensible tax, insurance, and funding policies—as well as investment management and actu

Authors:Ermanno Pitacco, Michel Denuit, Steven Haberman, Anna
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: business, mathematics, texts, annuity, pensions, longevity, dynamics, modelling
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0199547270
ISBN-13: 9780199547272

Mortality improvements, uncertainty in future mortality trends and the relevant impact on life annuities and pension plans constitute important topics in the field of actuarial mathematics and life insurance techniques. In particular, actuarial calculations concerning pensions, life annuities and other living benefits (provided, for example, by long-term care insurance products and whole life sickness covers) are based on survival probabilities which necessarily extend over a long time horizon. In order to avoid underestimation of the related liabilities, the insurance company (or the pension

Author: Gordon L. Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: finance, amp, economics, pensions, global, european
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-03-27
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199253641
ISBN-13: 9780199253647

This book is about the demographic and funding crises that threaten continental European systems of pension and retirement income. The author argues that state-sponsored social security will not deliver promised retirement incomes for the baby-boom generation; European monetary union and the imperatives of global finance has made such promises untenable thereby undercutting nation-state social solidarity. Globalization has set many challenges for European countries not least of which is providing pension security for theory citizens. At the same time, global finance has opened-up options for c

Author:
Publisher: OECD
Keywords: private, pensions, issues, systems, pension, policy
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2000-03
List price: $122.00
ISBN-10: 9264181210
ISBN-13: 9789264181212