Operations of a Pension Fund after the Asian Crisis: The Thai Experience*

During and after the Asian crisis, institutional investors and pension funds in Asian financial markets have been confronted with a number of difficulties effecting their performance and the way they carry out their role within the national pension system. We analyze these problems by comparing the actual investment policy of an institutional investor with an optimal investment strategy derived from the insights of modern portfolio theory. We also analyze whether the organizational set‐up of a pension fund allows it to adequately perform its role within the pension system. As an example, we examine the operations of the Thai Government Pension Fund (GPF). We find that allowing international investments and reducing restrictions on equity investments while lowering the implicit requirements for investments in government debt would allow the GPF to further diversify its investment risk and to increase its risk‐adjusted return. We also show that some changes in the governance structure of the GPF would lower the occurrence of conflicts of interest for the management and increase the efficiency of the GPF operations.     

The ‘demographic timebomb’ and how some hospitality employers are responding to the challenge

The phrase ‘demographic timebomb’ has taken on the aura of a shibbholeth and that everyone knows they ought to be fearful about. But is it really understood and what needs to be done? This article seeks to answer these questions and to shed some light on the employment strategies being developed by some British hospitality employers to counteract the demographic changes of the 1990s. As a result, some of the myth that the hospitality industry is lagging behind other industries can be dispelled but other findings support popular testimony that the industry faces special problems.     

Glamour and Value Strategies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

This paper evaluates the performance of glamour and value strategies and tests the extrapolation model for the Japanese equity market. In general, value stocks outperform glamour stocks by between 6 and 12 percent per annum for the five years after portfolio formation. Evidence from past, future and expected growth provides strong support for the story developed in Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny (1994). It is difficult to attribute the value premia to the difference, if any, in risk factors. In addition, the book-to-market premium is much closer to an arbitrage opportunity than the size premium.     

韩国政府为实现环保型企业经营的政策及方案

文章论述了环境问题对人类的重要性及创造环保型的企业环境需要解决的问题,在此基础上,提 出了为实现环保型企业经营韩国政府所应该采用的政策及具体的实施方案。     

工程建设项目战略灵活性的实物期权评价

为了进一步提高项目价值,项目经理必须认识项目规划和管理的不确定性。传统的工程项目规划、预算和管理往往认为不确定性降低了项目的价值,并没有从中充分地挖掘增加项目价值的机会。实物期权方法就是利用战略灵活性来识别和把握在动态不确定中所隐蔽的项目价值。通过一个高速公路项目的案例来展示实物期权方法所带来的管理灵活性对评价和选择战略的重要意义。还讨论了实物期权应用中的一些问题,指出了今后研究的方向。     

长株潭区域物流发展策略研究

随着长株潭一体化进程的加速，物流业已成为实现区域产业增长的重要推速器，其投入的数量、质量和方式，直接影响三市工业化的速度和水平。物流业与生产制造业的融合，延伸了相关产业链，是产业集群形成的动力和依托。本文通过对三市物流的现状和问题进行分析，探讨了发展长株潭区域物流的策略。     

对我国技术引进消化吸收与创新问题的思考

技术引进是迅速提升我国技术水平的有效捷径,本文在分析必须重视引进技术消化吸收和创新的基础上,分析了我国农业引进技术消化吸收和创新的主要制约因素,提出了加强引进技术消化吸收和创新工作的对策.     

“长三角”地区国家农业科技园区建设探讨

该文从建设国家农业科技园区的现实意义出发，选择“长三角”地区嘉兴国家农业科技园区建设为个案，在此基础上，提出了制定发展国家农业科技园区的对策。     

广西上市公司与区域经济的不平衡及发展对策

上市公司与区域经济发展是密不可分的,近几年,在广西经济持续快速增长的同时,广西上市公司的整体业绩却不断下滑,上市公司的发展与广西区域经济发展之间出现诸多不均衡甚至背离,要抓住当今广西区域经济遇到的大好发展机遇,齐抓共管,加大培育力度,加快推进企业改制上市步伐,提高现有上市公司业绩,带动区域经济发展。     

在校学生犯罪情况分析和防范对策

在校学生犯罪率的不段上升,是一个非常严峻的社会问题。预防、减少在校学生犯罪,学校责无旁贷。本文通过对 在校生犯罪情况的分析,探讨了构建三大"育人网络"作为防范对策的现实必要性。