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    <title>Governance and investment of public pension assets</title>
    <subTitle>practitioners' perspectives</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dorfman, Mark C.</namePart>
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    <publisher>World Bank</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2011</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvi, 343 p. : ill. (some col.).</extent>
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  <abstract>And key messages -- Key principles of governance and investment management -- Governance of public pension assets -- Governance structures and accountabilities -- Qualification, selection, and operation of governing bodies -- Operational policies and procedures -- Managing fiscal pressures in defined-benefit schemes -- Policy responses to turbulent financial markets -- Investment of public pension assets -- Defining the investment policy framework for public pension funds -- Managing risk for different cohorts in defined-contribution schemes -- An asset-liability approach to strategic asset allocation for pension funds -- In-house investment versus outsourcing to external investment managers -- International investments and managing the resulting currency risk -- Alternative asset classes and new investment themes.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Summary and key messages -- Key principles of governance and investment management -- Governance of public pension assets -- Governance structures and accountabilities -- Qualification, selection, and operation of governing bodies -- Operational policies and procedures -- Managing fiscal pressures in defined-benefit schemes -- Policy responses to turbulent financial markets -- Investment of public pension assets -- Defining the investment policy framework for public pension funds -- Managing risk for different cohorts in defined contribution schemes -- An asset-liability approach to strategic asset allocation for pension funds -- In-house investment versus outsourcing to external investment managers -- International investments and managing the resulting currency risk -- Alternative asset classes and new investment themes.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">editors, Sudhir Rajkumar, Mark C. Dorfman.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pension trusts</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pension trusts</topic>
    <topic>Investments</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Financial crises</topic>
    <temporal>21st century</temporal>
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