Producing investment returns at the margin of finance: A frontier talent proposition

MA Urban - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
Institutional investment management requires expertise. In the “war-for-talent”, co-located
private sector financial institutions drive wages up, thereby side-lining resource-constrained …

Placing the production of investment returns: an economic geography of asset management in public pension plans

MA Urban - Economic Geography, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Public pension funds are engulfed in a severe funding crisis. At stake is the financial stability
of state and local governments as well as the welfare of over thirty million public-sector …

Rescaling of American public pension finance: are state and local plans running away from Wall Street?

MA Urban - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Thwarted by the failures of investment managers and consultants, institutional investors are
increasingly interested in bypassing private contractors to invest their assets. State and local …

Does public pension board composition impact returns?

JP Aubry, CV Crawford - 2019 - policyarchive.org
Does Public Pension Board Composition Impact Returns? Page 1 State and Local Pension
Plans Number 67, August 2019 DOES PUBLIC PENSION BOARD COMPOSITION IMPACT …