This volume collects the contributions of a number of diverse and
distinguished scholars to reflect upon the topic of corporate
retirement security in the United States.
* * Contributes to the public policy debate concerning the securing
of sufficient retirement funds
* Reflects the present discussions and disagreements about the
most fundamental aspects of the employment relationship
* Organized into three sections, this volume focuses on ethical
issues in pension plan structure, pension plan changes, and
investing in pension plan funds
* Includes a thorough and orienting introduction to the
subject
Innehållsförteckning
Contributors.
’An Introduction’.
Robert W. Kolb.
Part I: Ethical Issues in Pension Plan Structure.
1. ’Pension Plan Design: An Examination of Corporate Social
Responsibility’ (Joanne H. Gavin and Ken Sloan, Marist
College).
2. ’The Pension that Isn’t: The Defined-Contribution
Retirement Plan’ (Barry Bennett, Bonneville Power Authority).
3. ’Corporate Retirement Security: A Bankrupt Oxymoron’
(Patricia Werhane, University of Virginia and De Paul
University).
4. ’Trust, Portability, and Sustenance in Pension
Plans’ (Robbin Derry, Northwestern University).
Part II: Pension Plan Changes.
5. ’Markets, Promises, and Responsibility: Reconsidering
Pensions and Ethics’ (Eugene Heath, State University of New
York at New Paltz).
6. ’Not How Much But How: The Ethics of Cash Balance Pension
Conversions’ (Michael E. Johnson-Cramer, Bucknell University and
Robert A. Phillips, University of San Diego).
7. ’Ethics of Corporate Retirement Program Changes’ (Duane
Windsor, Rice University).
8. ’Reflections on Markets, Retirement and Corporate
Responsibility’ (Jeffery Smith, University of Redlands).
Part III: Investing Pension Plan Funds.
9. ’Pensions and the Companies They Own: Fiduciary Duties in a
Changing Social Environment’ (Peter Kinder, KLD Research and
Analytics, Inc.).
10. ’Pension Funds and Socially Responsible Investing:
More Risky Than Responsible Business’ (Sarah Fuhrmann,
v-Fluence Interactive Public Relations).
11. ’Why Social Investing Threatens Public Employee
Pension Funds’ (Jon Entine, Miami University)
Om författaren
Robert W. Kolb holds the Frank W. Considine Chair in Applied Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. He was formerly Assistant Dean for Business and Society (2003-2006) at the University of Colorado, and John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Finance at the University of Miami. He is author and co-author of numerous texts in finance, including Futures, Options, and Swaps, 5e (with James A. Overdahl, Blackwell, 2007) and Understanding Futures Markets, 6e (with James A. Overdahl, Blackwell, 2006).
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