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CalPERS expands engagement

CalPERS plans to send a written request to up to 58 of its largest domestic company investments to adopt a majority voting standard in uncontested director elections, following an increase in the number of shareowner proposals that staff have been delegated to submit at CalPERS portfolio companies.
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The ABCs of Hedge Funds: Alpha, Beta and Costs

This hot-off-the-press revised version (March 30) of The ABCs of Hedge Funds, which decomposes returns into three components – systematic market exposure (beta), value-added by hedge funds (alpha), and hedge fund fees (costs) –  includes data up to the end of December 2009. Among other things it finds the universe of hedge funds produced a […]
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Decision making in the pension fund board room

This research examines the extent to which decision-making by pension fund trustees is affected by behavioural biases, by using a vignette-method field experiment among Dutch trustees. It finds that trustees display choices that accord with the phenomenon of loss aversion and allow their choices to be affected by the forces of social comparison: the reserve […]
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