ISSUES & POLICY Pension fund trustee competence decision making in problems relevant to investment practice

Journal of Pension Economics and Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-110

  Clark, Gordon L ^a   Caerlewy Smith, Emiko ^a   Marshall, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

competence; decision making; fund governance; reasoning; Trustees

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014349487     PISSN: 14747472     EISSN: 14753022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1474747205002374     Document Type: Article

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