The expected rate of return on pension funds and asset allocation as predictors of portfolio performance

Accounting Review

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 335-352

  Amir, Eli ^b   Benartzi, Shlomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Actuarial assumptions; Expected rate of return on pensions; Pension accounting; Pension asset allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032114369     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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