Risk and the public service manager

The Department of Social Security's discussion document on equalizing state pension age is examined and put in context. The authors conclude that it takes too narrow a view of the equality issue, and argue for a more radical reappraisal of state pension provision for the 21st century.     

Risk and return: Janaury vs. the rest of the year

This paper examines the seasonality in the basic relationship between expected return and risk during 1935–82. The results reveal that the positive relationship between return and risk is unique to January. The risk premiums during the remaining eleven months are not significantly different from zero.     

Beware the busy manager

Managers will tell you that the resource they lack most is time. If you watch them, you'll see them rushing from meeting to meeting, checking their e-mail constantly, fighting fires--an astonishing amount of fast-moving activity that allows almost no time for reflection. Managers think they are attending to important matters, but they're really just spinning their wheels. For the past ten years, the authors have studied the behavior of busy managers, and their findings should frighten you: Fully 90% of managers squander their time in all sorts of ineffective activities. A mere 10% of managers spend their time in a committed, purposeful, and reflective manner. Effective action relies on a combination of two traits: focus--the ability to zero in on a goal and see the task through to completion--and energy--the vigor that comes from intense personal commitment. Focus without energy devolves into listless execution or leads to burnout. Energy without focus dissipates into aimless busyness or wasteful failures. Plotting these two traits into a matrix provides a useful framework for understanding productivity levels of different managers. Managers who suffer from low levels of both energy and focus are the procrastinators: They dutifully perform routine tasks but fail to take initiatve. Disengaged managers have high focus but low energy: They have reservations about the jobs they are asked to do, so they approach them half-heartedly. Distracted managers have high energy but low focus: They confuse frenetic activity with constructive action. Purposeful managers are both highly energetic and highly focused: These are the managers who accomplish the most. This article will help you identify which managers in your organization are making a real difference--and which just look busy.     

营销及客户经理的新体验

银行的改革趋势将不可逆转．在我国市场经济金融改革的大环境下．必将与时俱进。四大国有商业银行上市的计划表也已列出。银行现在、将来注定都将扛起中国金融改革发展的大旗。     

香港:"我的精神家园"--记汇丰集团主席庞约翰爵士

在业内人士看来,汇丰集团似乎对世界金融气候有一种天生的免疫力.在1997年亚洲金融危机中,处于中心地带的汇丰银行竟然毫发未损,1999年,它的税前利润增长了21%,高达78.9亿美元.     

论基金管理人的股东化转型

在传统的基金治理结构中,基金管理人大多采用经理型模式,基金管理人的道德风险的发生难以避免。对基民与基金管理人的委托—代理合同进行优化,重激励、轻约束,不能从根本上消除基金管理人的道德风险。要消除基金管理人的道德风险,必须实现基金管理人从经理型向股东型的彻底转变,将基民与基金管理人的关系由传统的基金运行模式中的股东与经理的关系改造为优先股东与普通股东的关系。基金管理人的股东化转型,相对于经理型基金管理人而言,至少有两大功能:对基金管理人的机会主义行为的矫治功能;对基金管理人能力的甄别功能。     

项目经理分级管理初探

随着项目管理技术的不断完善和实践成效日益显著,中国工商银行数据中心（北京）（以下简称＂数据中心＂）已将项目管理作为银行业务创新、产品研发的重要手段。为此,数据中心构建了集项目管理制度、项目管理方法、项目管理控制、项目管理平台、项目经理管理和项目管理文化为一体的项目管理体系。     

The five minds of a manager

Managers are told: Be global and be local. Collaborate and compete. Change, perpetually, and maintain order. Make the numbers while nurturing your people. To be effective, managers need to consider the juxtapositions in order to arrive at a deep integration of these seemingly contradictory concerns. That means they must focus not only on what they have to accomplish but also on how they have to think. When the authors, respectively the director of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter in the U.K. and the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, set out to develop a masters program for practicing managers, they saw that they could not rely on the usual MBA educational structure, which divides the management world into discrete business functions such as marketing and accounting. They needed an educational structure that would encourage synthesis rather than separation. Managing, they determined, involves five tasks, each with its own mind-set: managing the self (the reflective mind-set); managing organizations (the analytic mind-set); managing context (the worldly mind-set); managing relationships (the collaborative mind-set); and managing change (the action mind-set). The program is built on the exploration and integration of those five aspects of the managerial mind. The authors say it has proved powerful in the classroom and insightful in practice. Imagine the mind-sets as threads and the manager as weaver. Effective performance means weaving each mind-set over and under the others to create a fine, sturdy cloth.     

天才的投资管理人,一种稀缺资源

今年应该是产业投资基金发展的一个新的转折点.去年年底,天津渤海产业投资基金正式成立,它将集资200亿人民币,首期集资60.8亿.还有一些跃跃欲试、等待政府有关部门批准的产业投资基金.但是还有一个更重要的信息,就在去年8月27号,全国人大通过了<合伙企业法>,明确了有限合伙人.有限合伙制可以说是我们产业投资基金建立的一个主要渠道,在国外通过有限合伙制设立产业投资基金这种形式在20世纪90年代以来占了90%以上.<合伙企业法>今年6月1日将要生效,也就是说,企业可以到工商局去注册一个某某有限合伙企业这样名称的一个企业,就像某某有限责任公司一样,以后我们会看到有限合伙企业这样的名称.而有限合伙企业本身就是一个产业投资基金的雏形.