Challenging the Status Quo. New Issue of Journal from Rotman International Centre for Pension Management Looks at New Answers to Old Questions.

September 25, 2012

Challenging the Status Quo. New Issue of Journal from Rotman International Centre for Pension Management Looks at New Answers to Old Questions.
 
Toronto – The articles in the Fall 2012 issue of the Rotman International Journal of Pension Management offer new perspectives and ideas on issues in the pension industry from the ongoing 'defined contribution' versus 'defined benefit' debate to the politicized sphere of executive compensation among others.
 
With contributions from pension practitioners and academics, the journal is published by the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (Rotman ICPM) at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
 
"Accused of changing his mind, the great economist John Maynard Keynes is said to have retorted, 'When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?' In that spirit, the articles in this issue of the Journal challenge conventional pension design and management thinking in important ways," says Journal editor, Keith Ambachtsheer who is also Director of Rotman ICPM and an adjunct professor of finance at the Rotman School.
 
Articles in the Fall 2012 issue also include:
 
• Selling Hope by Jason Hsu;
• Misadventures of an Irresponsible Investor by Jack Gray;
• Responses to “Misadventures of an Irresponsible Investor” provided by Jane Ambachtsheer, Stephen Davis and Keith Johnson;
• Managing Public Pension Reserve Funds: The Case of the Government Pension
• Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan by Nobusuke Tamaki;
• Total Shareholder Return (TSR) and Management Performance: A Performance
• Metric Appropriately Used, or Mostly Abused? by Roland Burgman and Mark Van Clieaf;
• The Dysfunctional “DB vs. DC” Pensions Debate: Why and How to Move Beyond It by Keith Ambachtsheer;
• Why Sweden’s Notional DC Pension System Needs a Calculation Correction by Doug Andrew; and,
• Why Sweden’s Notional DC Pension System Does Not Need a Calculation Correction by Ole Settergren.
 
Journal articles are available at no charge online at www.rijpm.com/journal/journal/ or as a flipbook here.
 
The next issue of the Journal is scheduled for release in Spring 2013. 
 
The mission of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (Rotman ICPM) is to be an internationally-recognized, high-impact catalyst for fostering effective pension design and management. Its four primary tools to achieve this goal are the funding of objective and transformative research, the organization of interactive, action-oriented discussion forums, the publication of a readable journal relevant to professionals in the pensions and related fields, and the delivery of the globe's leading governance education program for Board members of pension and other long-horizon investment institutions. Further details on the Centre, including access to the Rotman Journal of International Pension Management, are available at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/icpm/
 
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