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• Profile: Forging ahead with flexibility in busy times.

  - 2007-02-12

  Byline: Hannah Williams Penny Green is a busy woman. Charged with responsibility for the in-house benefits, administration, pensioner payroll and investment committee support for the Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London SAUL, she also finds time to be president of the Pensions...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Halliburton Co., institute, pension, president, Strategy, University of London

• Institutional Trading and Return Autocorrelation: Empirical Evidence on Polish Pension Fund Investors' Behavior

  BNET - 2003-07-01

  This paper extends the empirical finance literature about the influence of institutional traders by investigating the impact of Polish pension funds trading on individual stock return autocorrelation. The pension reform in 1999 and the associated increase in institutional traders' investment activities provides the unique opportunity to receive additional insight into...

  Tags: Pension Fund, Trader, University Of London, Investor, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance

• Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Determinants of Participation and Contributions Rates

  BNET - 2003-06-01

  Records of 793,794 employees eligible to participate in 647 defined contribution pension plans are studied in this paper. About 71% of them choose to participate in the plans, and of the participants, 12% choose to contribute the maximum allowance, $10,500. The main findings are other than equal: participation rates, contributions...

  Tags: Compensation, University Of London, Pension Plan, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources

• Valuing Defined-Benefit Plans

  BNET - 2003-06-01

  This paper examines the issues surrounding the valuation of defined-benefit pension plans including benefit formulas, integration with Social Security, post-retirement benefit increases and default risk. It obtains a reasonable valuation with three key estimates - the level of retirement benefits, the growth rate of post-retirement benefits and the discount rate....

  Tags: Valuation, University Of London, DB Valuation, Benefits, Asset Management, Investment, Human Resources, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance

• The Shift From Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Retirement Plans and the Provisioning of Retirement Savings

  BNET - 2002-07-01

  This paper examines the trend in retirement savings away from the Defined Benefit DB to Defined Contribution DC plans. It looks at reasons why this shift has occurred in several countries, considers the potential offered by the change and then briefly examines the operation of DC plans in the US...

  Tags: Provisioning, University Of London, Retirement Saving, Benefits, Human Resources

• Pension Fund Management and International Investment - A Global Perspective

  BNET - 2002-05-01

  This paper examines the potential and actual role played by international investment in pension fund management. The paper draws largely on experience of a range of OECD countries and selected emerging market economies with established funded pensions systems. It is shown that international investment allows superior investment performance in terms...

  Tags: Pension Fund, Investment, University Of London, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources

• Company Stock in Pension Plans: How Costly Is It?

  BNET - 2002-03-01

  Employees often hold substantial levels of company stock in their defined contribution pension plans, a practice widely recognized as risky but nonetheless common in high-tech firms and blue-chips alike. This paper investigates the extent of company stock ownership with defined contribution pension plans and estimates its cost, finding that employee...

  Tags: Stock, University Of London, Pension Plan, Company Stock, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Investment, Human Resources, Finance

• A Question of Rites: Friar Domingo Navarrete and the Jesuits in China. (book reviews)

  - 1994-10-01

  Emeritus professor of Hispanic studies at the University of London, J. S. Cummins presents "an evocation and an examination of Navarrete's career in Asia, of the effect of that experience on him and of his role in the ecclesiastical drama being played out in Peking, Rome...

  Tags: Asia, Benefits, CAREER, China, drama, HEALTHCARE, Philippines, SOFTWARE, University of London

• Whither London's health care? - government policy for health care in UK

  - 1993-12-01

  Those who are interested in the hospitals of London and their future cannot ignore their past.[1] THE future pattern of London's health services has received considerable and continuing publicity since the publication of the Tomlinson Report in autumn 1992.[2] Not surprisingly, much of that publicity has...

  Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, hospital, London, NHS, patient, SOFTWARE, University of London