Pension Fund Capitalism

Author : Kevin Skerrett,Johanna Weststar,Simon Archer (Lawyer),Chris Roberts
Publisher : Labor and Employment Research Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Financialization
ISBN : 0913447145

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The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism by Kevin Skerrett,Johanna Weststar,Simon Archer (Lawyer),Chris Roberts Pdf

It is often hoped and assumed that union stewardship of pension investments will produce tangible and enduring benefits for workers and their communities while minimizing the negative effects of what are now global and intensely competitive capital markets. At the core of this book is a desire to question the proposition that workers and their organizations can exert meaningful control over pension funds in the context of current financial markets. The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism is an engaging and readable text that will be of specific interest to members of the labor movement, pension activists, pension trustees, fund administrators, environmental activists, and employers/managers, as well as academics involved in pension or labor research. The contents and arguments of the book are applicable across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, because these countries experience a similar macroeconomic context and face a similar pension landscape.

Author : Leokadia Oręziak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1032078642

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Pension Fund Capitalism by Leokadia Oręziak Pdf

"This book examines the origins and consequences of so-called pension fund capitalism, which has spread around the world since 1981, when the pension system was completely privatized in Chile. The author highlights the driving forces behind the privatization of pensions, its forms and tools used in practice, and the risks and costs related to private pensions. The reader can also learn about the experiences of various developed countries (including the USA, Canada, Australia, and Germany), as well as Latin American (including Chile) and Eastern European countries, related to the privatization of pensions. Particular attention is paid to Poland as an example of a country where such privatization failed completely. This book provides a source of serious reflection on what this privatization has led to, what its real economic and social consequences are and what the likelihood is of reversing it and strengthening the public pension system. Academic researchers and students of economics and finance, as well as social and political sciences, will find the book invaluable in understanding the problems arising from the privatization of pensions. It will also be of interest to professionals: institutions that shape or influence economic and social policy, including political parties, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, the media, and institutions operating on the financial market"--

Author : Gordon L. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290404049

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Pension Fund Capitalism by Gordon L. Clark Pdf

Since 1980, U.K. individual pension and retirement assets have increased about 10 fold to about 1.1 trillion Pounds. Over the same time, U.S. household retirement assets have increased about 7 fold to more than $5 trillion. High rates of asset growth have also been observed for Australia and Canada. Notwithstanding their current high standards of living, much of continental Europe has not shared in these extraordinary rates of growth of pension assets. In fact, many analysts believe that their long-term prosperity is threatened (relatively speaking) by inefficient, institutionally cumbersome finance sectors. While saving now for retirement has significant advantages for beneficiaries, less important is the fact that the growth of pension assets in the Anglo-American economies have profoundly changed the financial structure of these countries. Here I explain how and why pension assets have grown so large in the Anglo-American countries, beginning with an historical account to identify the reasons why German and continental European countries excluding The Netherlands and Switzerland have not shared the same rates of growth of pension assets. In doing so, the paper develops an explanatory model which discriminates between various causes of Anglo-American pension fund capitalism: structural determinants (institutional framework), second-order determinants (post-war conditions), and third-order determinants (contributions). The identified causal logic relies upon Ehring's conception of causality, integrating structure with historical and geographical contingency. Implications are also drawn regarding the significance of Anglo-American pension funds for global capitalism.

Author : Gordon Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Pension trusts
ISBN : 1383037299

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Pension Fund Capitalism by Gordon Clark Pdf

Little is known about the functions, structures and modes of decision making regarding pension fund assets. This book aims to fill that gap, through a theoretically informed account of Anglo-American pension funds.

Author : Gordon L. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Pension trusts
ISBN : 0198241305

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Pension Fund Capitalism by Gordon L. Clark Pdf

Pension fund assets are truly astronomical. But little is known about their functions, structures, and modes of decision making. This book fills the gap through a theoretically informed account of Anglo-American pension funds, set in context with current debates about the role of government policy and the roles and responsibilities of pension funds.

Author : Jan Toporowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134618279

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The End of Finance by Jan Toporowski Pdf

This volume develops an original critique of the belief that the present era of finance, where finance markets dominate contemporary capitalist economies, represents the best possible way of organising economic affairs. In fact, it is argued, the ensuing economic instability and inefficiency create the preconditions for the end of the dominance of finance. The End of Finance develops a theory of capital market inflation rooted in the work of Veblen, Kalecki, Keynes and Minsky, demonstrating how it disinclines productive activity on the part of firms, provides only short-term conditions that are propitious for privatisation and distorts monetary policy in the long-term. The author examines the role of pension fund schemes and financial derivatives in transmitting capital market inflation and provides a nuanced analysis of the contradictory role they play in the financial system. Capital market inflation is also examined in its historical context and compared with past inflations, in particular the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles, which spawned the first financial derivatives, and the first privatisations. This broad historical vision allows us to see these forms of inflation as temporary and provisional in character.

Author : Jan Toporowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134618286

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The End of Finance by Jan Toporowski Pdf

This volume develops an original critique of the belief that the present era of finance, where finance markets dominate contemporary capitalist economies, represents the best possible way of organising economic affairs. In fact, it is argued, the ensuing economic instability and inefficiency create the preconditions for the end of the dominance of finance. The End of Finance develops a theory of capital market inflation rooted in the work of Veblen, Kalecki, Keynes and Minsky, demonstrating how it disinclines productive activity on the part of firms, provides only short-term conditions that are propitious for privatisation and distorts monetary policy in the long-term. The author examines the role of pension fund schemes and financial derivatives in transmitting capital market inflation and provides a nuanced analysis of the contradictory role they play in the financial system. Capital market inflation is also examined in its historical context and compared with past inflations, in particular the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles, which spawned the first financial derivatives, and the first privatisations. This broad historical vision allows us to see these forms of inflation as temporary and provisional in character.

Author : Michael J. Clowes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471384830

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The Money Flood by Michael J. Clowes Pdf

Praise for Michael J. Clowes and the money flood "What a fine book! As an active participant in the revolution in pension investing, I could almost feel the times and tides of the past half-century shifting beneath me. Mike Clowes's splendid and articulate tour through the era is destined to become a landmark on the bookshelves of everyone interested in this illuminating history of the past, as well as its portents of the future."-John C. Bogle, founder, The Vanguard Group "The corporate pension fund ranks high among the spectacular financial innovations of the twentieth century. Mike Clowes has built a fascinating story about the impact of this flood of money on the theory and practice of investing, the financial markets, the labor force, corporate management, and the general economy. The far-reaching consequences of these changes make this authoritative and lively book must-reading for everyone."-Peter L. Bernstein, President, Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., author, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk "The definitive history of the rise of pension fund capitalism in America."-Keith Ambachtsheer, President, KPA Advisory, author, Pension Fund Excellence: Creating Value for Shareholders "Beautifully written, broad in coverage of all the best parts of a great American story, Mike Clowes's new book gives us an easy-to-read and easy-to-enjoy explanation of who did what and when in the investment revolution of the past half-century."-Charles D. Ellis, Partner, Greenwich Associates, author, The Investor's Anthology: Original Ideas from the Industry's Greatest Minds

Author : Michael A. McCarthy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501708190

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Dismantling Solidarity by Michael A. McCarthy Pdf

Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth.Pension development has followed three paths of marketization in America since the New Deal, each distinct but converging: occupational pension plans were adopted as an alternative to real increases in Social Security benefits after World War II, private pension assets were then financialized and invested into the stock market, and, since the 1970s, traditional pension plans have come to be replaced with riskier 401(k) retirement plans. Comparing each episode of change, Dismantling Solidarity mounts a forceful challenge to common understandings of America’s private pension system and offers an alternative political economy of the welfare state. McCarthy weaves together a theoretical framework that helps to explain pension marketization with structural mechanisms that push policymakers to intervene to promote capitalist growth and avoid capitalist crises and contingent historical factors that both drive them to intervene in the particular ways they do and shape how their interventions bear on welfare change. By emphasizing the capitalist context in which policymaking occurs, McCarthy turns our attention to the structural factors that drive policy change. Dismantling Solidarity is both theoretically and historically detailed and superbly argued, urging the reader to reconsider how capitalism itself constrains policymaking. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, historians, and those curious about the relationship between capitalism and democracy.

Author : Keith P. Ambachtsheer,Don Ezra
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471246557

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Pension Fund Excellence by Keith P. Ambachtsheer,Don Ezra Pdf

Neue Ideen für mehr Erfolg! Alles, was ein Manager über Rentenfonds wissen muß - die Zusammenstellung effektiver Fonds, ihr Management, die optimale Wertsteigerung - wird hier anhand in- und ausländischer Fallbeispiele eingängig erklärt. Nutzerfreundlich werden die wichtigsten Schritte in Übersichten zusammengestellt. Verschiedene moderne Ansätze zum Rentenfondsmanagement werden kritisch bewertet.

Author : Tobias Wiß
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Pension trusts
ISBN : OCLC:774075759

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Pension Fund Capitalism and Financial Crisis by Tobias Wiß Pdf

Author : Gordon L. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199240485

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Pension Fund Capitalism by Gordon L. Clark Pdf

The growth of pension funds has been nothing short of astronomical. Pension funds now dominate the world's financial markets, affecting nations' wealth, community development, and industrial well being. Yet little is known about their structure and organization. Pension funds and their agentsin the investment industry control enormous sums of money, profoundly affecting the structure and performance of nation-states and the global economy. At the same time, it is also apparent that many western governments are retreating from the provision of 'public good' once thought essential to thefabric of urban life. Clark agues that if we are to understand the long-term future of the western economies (in general) and our communities (in particular), we need also to understand how institutional investors allocate assets, mobilize funds, and make investment decisions. There are few studies of the relationship between pension funds and the financial services industry. Pension Fund Capitalism fills an important gap in the literature as well as the intersection between pension funds and public policy.

Author : Anke Hassel,Tobias Wiß
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000710991

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The Political Economy of Pension Financialisation by Anke Hassel,Tobias Wiß Pdf

The Political Economy of Pension Financialisation addresses – for numerous countries – how and why pension reforms have come to rely more on financial markets, how public policy reacted to financial crises, and regulatory variation. The book demonstrates how the process of pension financialisation reveals that pension policy is not only a social policy that affects retirement income, but also a financial policy that impacts savings rates, corporate finance and the economy. The chapters shed light on pre-funded private pensions as one key component of financialisation, as they turn savings into investments via financial services providers. Readers will also see how pension financialisation and the broader financialisation of the economy are here to stay, despite negative developments during and after the financial crisis. A systematic and comparative overwiew of the financialisation of pensions, The Political Economy of Pension Financialisation is ideal for scholars and postgradues working on Political Economy, Public Policy and Finance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Author : Robin Blackburn
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789609233

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Banking on Death by Robin Blackburn Pdf

Banking on Death offers a panoramic view of the history and future of pension provision. A work of unique scope, it traces the origins and development of the pension idea, from the days of the French Revolution to the troubles of the modern welfare state. As we live longer, employers are closing their pension schemes and many claim that public treasuries will not be able to cope with the retirement of the babyboomers. Banking on Death analyses the challenge facing public schemes and the malfunctioning of private retirement provision, concluding with a bold proposal for how to pay for decent pensions for all. Robin Blackburn argues that pension funds have been depleted by wasteful promotion and used as gambling chips by ruthless and overpaid top executives. This is the world of 'grey capitalism,' where employees' savings are sequestrated from them and pressed into the service of corporate aggrandisement. Even the best companies find it hard to run a business and a pension fund at the same time-especially when the latter is larger than the former. The fund managers' notorious short-termism and herd instinct, and their failure to curb the greed and irresponsibility of the corporate elite, lead to obscene inequalities and a blighted social landscape. The pension privatisation lobby, Blackburn shows, has lost major battles in France and Germany, the United States and Italy, because of the popular fears it evokes. And the case for privatisation looks intellectually threadbare after withering critiques from such notable theorists as Joseph Stiglitz and Pierre Bourdieu. Banking on Death shows that pensions are political dynamite, and have undone governments from France and Italy to Argentina. Popular outcries led Reagan, Clinton, and Blair to change tack: will this happen to George W. Bush too? Blackburn argues that the ageing society will generate increased costs but, so long as the new life course is properly financed, all age groups will gain. He proposes a public regime of asset-based welfare, drawing on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Rudolf Meidner, that could ensure secondary pensions for all and foster a more responsible, egalitarian and humane pattern of economic development.

Author : James P. Hawley,Andrew T. Williams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812235630

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The Rise of Fiduciary Capitalism by James P. Hawley,Andrew T. Williams Pdf

Traces the rise of public and private pension funds, which now control as much as 50 percent of the equity in American corporations, and argues that shareholders in those funds could use their power to make corporations more responsive to social needs.