Corporate governance failures : the role of institutional investors in the global financial crisis / edited by James P. Hawley, Shyam J. Kamath, and Andrew T. Williams.

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 (pages 279-333) and index.

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

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