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View article: Walk the green talk? A textual analysis of pension funds' disclosures of sustainable investing
Walk the green talk? A textual analysis of pension funds' disclosures of sustainable investing Open
We analyze the disclosures of sustainable investing by Dutch pension funds in their annual reports by introducing a novel textual analysis approach using state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques to measure the awareness and …
View article: Private Shareholder Engagements on Material ESG Issues
Private Shareholder Engagements on Material ESG Issues Open
We study private shareholder engagements with 2, 465 listed firms about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues from 2007 to 2020. We examine the extent to which private engagements address financially material ESG issues and co…
View article: Eliciting Pension Beneficiaries’ Sustainability Preferences: Why and How?
Eliciting Pension Beneficiaries’ Sustainability Preferences: Why and How? Open
We explore whether beneficiaries of pension plans should have a voice in their funds’ sustainable investments, and we hypothesize that the answer to this question depends on funds’ legal and societal contexts, benchmarking pressures, and f…
View article: Replication Data for: A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings
Replication Data for: A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings Open
Files used to create the tables and graphs in the paper A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings (Bauer, Eberhardt, & Smeets, forthcoming). Sample datasets are included. Programs are written in S…
View article: A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings
A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings Open
To understand what motivates individuals to look at their pension situation and make adequate savings decisions, we conduct two field experiments with 226,946 and 257,433 pension fund participants. We find peer-information statements do no…
View article: Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments
Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments Open
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have created societal and political pressure for pension funds to address sustainable investing. We run two field surveys (n = 1,669, n = 3,186) with a pension fund that grants its m…
View article: The future of tobacco stocks: a scenario analysis
The future of tobacco stocks: a scenario analysis Open
This document was prepared for Tobacco Free Portfolios, a non-governmental organisation encouraging tobacco-free investment. Research for and preparation of the document was carried out by Professor Rob Bauer and his team of research assis…
View article: Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates
Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates Open
The unique regulation of U.S. public pension funds links their liability discount rate to the expected return on assets, which gives them incentives to invest more in risky assets in order to report a better funding status. Comparing publi…