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• Identifying Effective Workplace Basic Skills Strategies For Enhancing Employee Development And Productivity

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  Our study will be using a longitudinal design in order to address the research questions set out in the previous section. We propose to study, in detail, and over a twenty-four month period, the success of occupationally-linked literacy, language and numeracy programmes on a sample of 500 learner participants. We...

  Tags: Workplace, University Of London, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

• Human Resources Strategy

  BNET - 2003-10-10

  The School's key aims in HR terms are the recruitment, retention and development of the very best academic staff and high quality support staff to support its strategy of maintaining its present position as an internationally competitive research led institution, ranked in the top three of UK universities. The School's...

  Tags: Human Resources, University Of London, School

• 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

• G÷del's Theorem and the Case of the Internet Information Commons

  BNET - 2003-05-19

  The paper talks about commons-based information production that refers to useful information that is produced as a result of events or motivations that are distinct from production that is consequent on reactions to market prices and/or managerial commands. It explains with an example that if musician A is a composer...

  Tags: Commons, Production, University Of London, G÷del, Internet, Workforce Management, Leadership, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Management, Sales

• What Has the Fund Manager Done for Me? A Value-Based Approach to Investment Performance Measurement

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  In many circumstances, it is unsatisfactory to measure portfolio performance using time-weighted rates of return. There are well known problems with performance attribution analysis using time-weighted returns in a multi-interval context, and it is impossible to measure the contribution of a portfolio's manager to the wealth of an individual investor....

  Tags: Performance, Investment, University Of London, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, 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

• The Game-Theoretic Capital Asset Pricing Model

  BNET - 2002-03-03

  The paper presents the derivation of a capital asset pricing model from an efficient market hypothesis, with no assumptions about the beliefs or preferences of investors. The efficient market hypothesis says that a speculator with limited means cannot beat a particular index by a substantial factor. The model reveals that...

  Tags: Hypothesis, University Of London, Index, Market Hypothesis, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management