This paper deals with the principal-agent relationships involved by the management of pension funds. The focus is made on private defined benefit pension funds in the US. We first underline the main characteristics of management and financial pension policy. We then identify the principal-agent...

The asset allocation principles to be followed by pension funds have recently recorded some important modifications on the international level. Canadian pension funds have also been subject to these evolutions. The main modifications concern the gradual elimination of some portfolio constraints,...

L'auteur montre pourquoi le système des fonds de pension américain ne peut pas être introduit en France. Devant concilier à la fois la protection sociale et la spéculation financière, il repose sur un régime de propriété typiquement anglo-saxon, le trust. L'auteur analyse ce régime et...

Elective affinity seems to link reform of retirement, development of long-term investments and SRI next decades. They so suggest the possibility of an endogenous evolution of financial capitalism which would become more favourable to a long term perspective, without departing from the principle...

Le pouvoir financier des salariés au moyen de leur épargne dans les fonds de pension est ici évalué au vu des règles juridiques qui régissent ces dispositifs.

This article focuses on the financial crisis beginning in 2008. Drawing on the work of Lebaron (2010; 2011) and (Grün 2010), the study seeks to grasp the "cognitive dimension" of the crisis through the discourses produced (and reproduced) by members of the Brazilian government involved in...

Recent reforms of European pension schemes have largely taken the American system as a reference.The remarks which follow are aimed at understanding the origins of such a persistent belief in the virtues of the pension funds. The analysis brings out the role played by their legal structure, the...

The article suggests social inclusion via the market and especially via pension funds in the Lula Administration. It shows how the dialogue between government, trade unions, union confederations, and the financial market reveals a convergence of interests among the above-mentioned actors,...

Economic Analysis of Law versus Institutionnalism. A “in situation” comparison This paper compares two approaches of law economics concerning the same empirical object - the United States employees savings schemes – on one hand within the framework of mainstream Law and Economics and on...