Major Exxon Mobil Investors Seek Oil Company Action on Climate Change Risks.
ENERGY RESOURCE-21 May 2008-Major Exxon Mobil Investors Seek Oil Company Action on Climate Change Risks(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Nineteen institutional investors, including some of Exxon Mobil's largest shareowners, are voting next week in support of resolutions asking Exxon Mobil Corporation to address climate change risks and opportunities...

PENSION FUNDS: BIG BUSINESS IN CRISIS-RIDDEN ARGENTINA.
By Marcela Valente [the article, dated Sept. 3, 2001, is reprinted with permission of Inter Press Service] Pension funds have turned out to be a safe source of high returns for private administrators in Argentina, but the value of workers' pensions has declined, and some...

The new capitalists.
Introduction This article has a simple starting point. The majority of the shares in most of our large companies are owned by pension and life insurance companies which represent millions of people. This means that the 'commanding heights of the economy' are not owned by a small...

Ill-defined benefits: the uncertain present and brighter future of employee pensions in Canada.
The Study in Brief The problems of employer-sponsored defined-benefit (DB) pension plans in Canada raise two issues: the need for short-run measures to limit the damage; and the need for new pension models to prevent their recurring. The DB sector's immediate preoccupations are the result...

Democracy in corporate America.
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary." James Madison's perceptive warning in The Federalist, No. 51, provides an appropriate place to begin a discussion of the role of shareholder democracy in the governance of America's giant publicly held corporations. Paraphrasing the great Madison's words, "If...

Small is powerful: Jess Worth wonders what 'corporate justice' might look like.
I suppose I'd better come clean. This whole Corporate Responsibility charade is partly my fault. In my defence, I really believed I was doing the right thing at the time. I was young, naive ... It was 1999, and I had just landed my first proper job,...

A board's template to evaluate the IRO: don't be blindsided by issues raised in the investment community. Do a check-up on the capability of your investor relations function.
TAKE A LOOK at what could well result in the "perfect storm" for director elections in 2008: the convergence of potential SEC proxy rule changes with the elimination of the 10-day broker voting rule; majority voting; proxy access for nominating directors; increasing activism among pension, mutual, and hedge funds...

A world gone MaD: marketisation and deregulation of electricity: the goal of affordable, accessible, clean and reliable electricity has been trampled in the rush to market.
Many governments around the world have deregulated and privatised their electricity systems since the mid-1980s. The principal beneficiaries of privatisation have been the consultants, banks, building societies, insurance companies, pension funds and other industrial and commercial companies that were able to invest in the newly privatised services and/or provide...

Migrants in the European union: welfare in old age.
Abstract The first generation of post-World War Two (WWII) migrants to Western Europe have joined the ranks of the European elderly. Typically, they have accumulated limited assets because of lower paid employment and earned limited rights within public pension schemes that in most European countries relate pensions...

Robin Blackburn: Banking on Death or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions.
Robin Blackburn Banking on Death or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions Verso, London, 2002, x + 550 pp. ISBN 1-85984-409-X (pbk) 15 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-85984-795-1 (hbk) 20 [pounds sterling] Barely a week passes without a news headline of one kind or another...