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Institutional Investors

By: E. Philip Davis,Benn Steil

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One of the most important recent developments in financial markets is the institutionalization of saving associated with the growth of pension funds, life insurance companies, and mutual funds. An increasing proportion of household saving is now managed by professional portfolio managers instead of being directly invested in the securities markets or held in the form of bank deposits. With the aging of the population and its adverse impact on public pension systems, the shift of individual savings to institutional investors is likely to become even more marked in the coming years. This book provides a comprehensive economic assessment of institutional investment. It charts the development and performance of the asset management industry and analyzes the implications of rising institutionalized saving for the development of the securities trading industry, the financial sector as a whole, and the wider economy. The book draws extensively on international experience, particularly in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan.

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MIT Press

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0262262401

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9780262262408

The Crisis and the Kingdom

Economics, Scripture, and the Global Financial Crisis

By: E. Philip Davis

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The Crisis and the Kingdom

Economics, Scripture, and the Global Financial Crisis

By: E. Philip Davis

The ongoing global financial crisis was not simply the fault of the financial sector. Bankers, households, and governments had all entered a spiral of greed, selfishness, and impatience in pursuit of their respective aims of higher remuneration, greater consumption, and enhanced popularity. The outcome, besides costly bank bailouts, has been rising private and public debt and stagnant economies. Economics, the ruling paradigm in today's society, can explain their motivation of self-interest but not the underlying irrationality of their behavior. Taking a view from Scripture, Philip Davis critiques the overall aims of individuals, as assumed by economics--wealth, consumption, and power--in contrast to Jesus' proclamation of the kingdom of God, the love for God and neighbor, and responsible stewardship of resources. In doing so, he aims to equip Christians to better understand the crisis from a kingdom perspective, to provide the church with a distinctive voice in these troubled times, and to press for radical Christian solutions to address the underlying difficulties. This little book aims to redress the gap in Christians' understanding that led the theologian Jurgen Moltmann to remark trenchantly, "The neglect of economics is a wound in the side of the church.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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161097476X

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9781610974769

Debt, Financial Fragility, and Systemic Risk

By: E. Philip Davis

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Debt, Financial Fragility, and Systemic Risk

By: E. Philip Davis

A remarkable feature of the period since 1970 has been the patterns of rapid and turbulent change in financing behavior and financial structure in many advanced countries. This book explores, in theoretical and empirical terms, the nature of the relationships between the underlying phenomena--levels and changes in debt, vulnerability to default in the corporate and household sectors, and systematic risk in the financial sector. The book focuses on the generality of this phenomena--whether similar patterns are observable in certain countries, as well as in the international capital markets themselves. Emphasis is placed to the importance of the nature and evolution of financial structure to the genesis of instability. Given the international scope of the analysis, the work is germane to the study of the development of financial systems in all advanced countries, as well as the euromarkets.

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Oxford University Press

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0198233310

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9780198233312

Pension Funds

Retirement-income Security and Capital Markets : an International Perspective

By: E. Philip Davis

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Pension Funds

Retirement-income Security and Capital Markets : an International Perspective

By: E. Philip Davis

Davis assesses the major economic issues raised by occupational pension funds as they have arisen in 12 OECD countries. Particular emphasis is placed on the performance of funds in financial markets.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0198293046

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Institutional Investors

Institutional Investors

The Crisis and the Kingdom

The Crisis and the Kingdom

Debt, Financial Fragility, and Systemic Risk

Debt, Financial Fragility, and Systemic Risk

Pension Funds

Pension Funds

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