Corporate governance failures
Subtitle: the role of institutional investors in the global financial crisis
By: edited by James P. Hawley, Shyam J. Kamath, and Andrew T. Williams
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780812243147
Subjects: Financial risk; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Congresses; Institutional investments; Corporate governance
Notes: Revised proceedings of a two-day conference entitled Institutional Investors, Risk/Return, and Corporate Governance Failures : Practical Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond risk : notes toward a responsible investment theory / Steve Lydenberg; title: The quality of corporate governance within financial firms in stressed markets / Robert Mark; title: Chasing alpha : an ideological explanation of the catastrophic failure in the U.K.'s financial services industry / Philip Augar; title: Corporate governance, risk analysis, and the financial crisis : did universal owners contribute to the crisis? / James P. Hawley; title: Great expectations : institutional investors, executive remuneration, and "say on pay" / Kym Sheehan; title: Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain : the limits of corporate governance in dealing with asset bubbles / Bruce Dravis; title: Real estate, governance, and the global economic crisis / Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, and Erkan Yonder; title: The sophisticated investor and the global financial crisis / Jennifer S. Taub; title: The role of investment consultants in transforming pension fund decision making : the integration of environmental, social, and governance considerations into corporate valuation / Eric R.W. Knight and Adam D. Dixon; title: Funding climate change : how pension fund fiduciary duty masks trustee inertia and short-termism / Claire Woods.