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Optimal Financial Strategies for Trusteed Pension Plans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Irwin Tepper
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Since the Second World War the corporate pension trust has become a prominent method of provision for employees' retirement income. The continuing liberalization of pension provisions and pressures to match pension trust liabilities with assets has established pension contributions as a significant component of corporate cash outlays. Asset accumulation in pension trusts has rendered such institutions a major source of capital funds.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , June 1974 , pp. 357 - 376
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1974

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