Alfred Slager's Books

Achieving Investment Excellence

A Practical Guide for Trustees of Pension Funds, Endowments and Foundations

By: Kees Koedijk,Alfred Slager,Jaap van Dam

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Achieving Investment Excellence

A Practical Guide for Trustees of Pension Funds, Endowments and Foundations

By: Kees Koedijk,Alfred Slager,Jaap van Dam

Crucial methods, tactics and tools for successful pension fund management Achieving Investment Excellence offers trustees and asset managers a comprehensive handbook for improving the quality of their investments. With a stated goal of substantially and sustainably improving annual returns, this book clarifies and demystifies important concepts surrounding trustee duties and responsibilities, investment strategies, analysis, evaluation and much more. Low interest rates are making the high cost of future pension payouts fraught with tension, even as the time and knowledge required to manage these funds appropriately increases — it is no wonder that pensions are increasingly seen as a financial liability. Now more than ever, it is critical that trustees understand exactly what contributes to investment success — and what detracts from it. This book details the roles, the tools and the strategies that make pension funds pay off. Understand the role of pension funds and the fiduciary duty of trustees Learn the tools and kills you need to build profound and lasting investment excellence Analyse, diagnose and improve investment quality of funds using concrete tools and instruments Study illustrative examples that demonstrate critical implementation and execution advice Packed with expert insight, crucial tools and real-life examples, this book is an important resource for those tasked with governing these. Achieving Investment Excellence provides the expert insight, clear guidance and key wisdom you need to manage these funds successfully.

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328

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John Wiley & Sons

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ISBN 10

1119437652

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9781119437659

The Internationalization of Banks

Patterns, Strategies and Performance

By: Alfred Slager

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The Internationalization of Banks

Patterns, Strategies and Performance

By: Alfred Slager

Increasingly the world's largest banks have more activity happening internationally. What are the effects of internationalization, and what is a successful business model for the future? This book explores the formulation, implementation and evaluation of internationalization strategies, examining those of the leading banks in eight countries.

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238

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Springer

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0230625045

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9780230625044

The Bohemian Body

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture

By: Alfred Thomas

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The Bohemian Body

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture

By: Alfred Thomas

The Bohemian Body examines the modernist forces within nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups—Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights. By re-examining the work of key Czech male and female writers and poets from the National Revival to the Velvet Revolution, Alfred Thomas exposes the tendency of Czech literary criticism to separate the political and the personal in modern Czech culture. He points instead to the complex interplay of the political and the personal across ethnic, cultural, and intellectual lines and within the works of such individual writers as Karel Hynek Mácha, Bozena Nemcová, and Rainer Maria Rilke, resulting in the emergence and evolution of a protean modern identity. The product is a seemingly paradoxical yet nuanced understanding of Czech culture (including literature, opera, and film), long overlooked or misunderstood by Western scholars.

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285

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299222837

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9780299222833

A Blessed Shore

England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare

By: Alfred Thomas

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A Blessed Shore

England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare

By: Alfred Thomas

Although Thomas gives original readings of famous English texts by Chaucer and Shakespeare, this is also a book about Czech writers and travelers; one Czech expatriate, Anne of Bohemia, became Queen of England. For both countries these were decades of religious and dynastic turbulence, and Thomas's analyses of the relations between Wyclif and Hus, Lollards and Hussites, help us to understand why Bohemia was viewed as an almost utopian land of refuge ("a blessed shore" on which a ship might wash up) for persecuted English men and women. Of particular interest is his analysis of the ways in which English court culture emulated that of Prague, which was an imperial seat at a time when England was still a peripheral place with little influence on the heart of Europe.

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Cornell University Press

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080144568X

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9780801445682

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Achieving Investment Excellence

Achieving Investment Excellence

The Internationalization of Banks

The Internationalization of Banks

The Bohemian Body

The Bohemian Body

A Blessed Shore

A Blessed Shore

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