Corporate Retirement Security Social and Ethical Issues
by Kolb, Robert W.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-10-22
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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
Author Biography
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).
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| List of Contributors | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Ethical Issues in Pension Plan Structure | p. 1 |
| Pension Plan Design: An Examination of Corporate Social Responsibility | p. 3 |
| The Pension That Isn't: The Defined-Contribution Retirement Plan | p. 19 |
| Corporate Retirement Security: A Bankrupt Oxymoron | p. 33 |
| Trust, Portability, and Sustenance in Pension Plans | p. 45 |
| Pension Plan Changes | p. 53 |
| Markets, Promises, and Responsibility: Reconsidering Pensions and Ethics | p. 55 |
| Not How Much But How: The Ethics of Cash Balance Pension Conversions | p. 77 |
| Ethics of Corporate Retirement Program Changes | p. 95 |
| Reflections on Markets, Retirement, and Corporate Responsibility | p. 111 |
| Investing Pension Plan Funds | p. 119 |
| Pensions and the Companies They Own: New Fiduciary Duties in a Changing Social Environment | p. 121 |
| Pension Funds and Socially Responsible Investing: More Risky Than Responsible Business | p. 151 |
| Why Social Investing Threatens Public Employee Pension Funds | p. 174 |
| Index | p. 191 |
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