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Investment Strategy and Governance
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Jonathan Charkham and Anne Simpson
Published: 27 May 1999
... to their own management/board? If they are professional fund managers what strategy can they sell to the trustees to whom they look for business or to the consultants advising them? This chapter discusses the three main types which have an impact on corporate governance: active investing, value investing...
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University Leadership—More Complicated and More Critical Than Ever
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Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
Published: 10 September 2018
...In 2012, the rectors of the University of Virginia carried out a failed attempt to oust President Teresa Sullivan, demonstrating how a lack of understanding of shared governance and the importance of the internal dynamics of a university can frustrate university trustees. Bart Giamatti said...
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Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities
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Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
Published online: 23 May 2019
Published in print: 10 September 2018
... of faculty, students, trustees, and administration can clear up some of these misunderstandings and position universities to deal with the pressures caused by changing demographics of incoming students, financial challenges associated with these changes, and differences in learning brought...
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AEL, Encina, and Calling the Police
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Richard W. Lyman
Published: 30 January 2009
...The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a group of radicals who engaged Stanford University's administration, particularly the board of trustees, in a war of attrition. They demanded closer supervision over the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and urged the university to stop all...
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Published: 01 April 2014
... recommendations concerning the Editors. From the beginning, the annual member society due was $1 per member of each constituent member. Under the second part of Macdonald Crichleys’s Presidency, the annual membership fee was raised to $2. Council of Delegates finance committee WFN Trustees van Bogaert L Bailey...
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Recruiting Presidential Leadership
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Ernst R. Berndt
Published: 01 October 2009
...Presidential leadership is so crucial to the well-being of colleges and universities that trustees should do everything possible to maximize the chances of picking the right person for the job. Doing so, however, means resisting the academic forces that would advance candidates unsuited...
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Introduction
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Noeleen McIlvenna
Published: 26 October 2015
...This chapter establishes the central question of the book: what did the stakeholders want from their new colony? The class-focused English social and political structure is described, outlining the differences between patricians and plebeians. The paternalist Trustees sought a cure for England’s...
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From a Common Man's Utopia to a Planter's Paradise, 1732–1776
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Watson W. Jennison
Published: 01 January 2012
...The first chapter examines the abandonment of the Trustees' vision of a common man's utopia in favor a hierarchical slave society. The founders imagined a society based upon small-scale agriculture and limited landholdings. The transformation to a slave society occurred quickly. Within two decades...
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Fiduciary Principles in Legal Representation
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Richard W. Painter
Published: 09 May 2019
... lawyers are subject to the specific duties of a common law trustee; and two types of mandatory rules to which lawyers, as professional fiduciaries, are subject and that cannot be waived with client consent: mandatory rules of professional responsibility and generally applicable laws. The chapter concludes...
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Published: 23 June 2022
... activity of the Foundation. 51 The Board of Trustees of the ‘Biennale Foundation’ is headed by the President. The Foundation which comprises of 12 members is headed by the Biennale Director who is assisted by Curators, Directors, General Managers, Accounts Managers, and Operations Managers...
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Public Institutions
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Steven H. Steinglass and Gino J. Scarselli
Published: 03 October 2022
... and the trustees of the benevolent and other state institutions. The voters approved Article VII as part of the 1851 Constitution, and this is the only article of the constitution that the voters have never amended. In 2017, the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission recommended the amendment of section 1...
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The Impact of Public Opinion on Political Action
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Stefaan Walgrave and others
Published: 30 August 2022
... representatives delegates and trustees responsiveness elite communication blame avoidance Are politicians’ public opinion perceptions consequential? Do they matter for what elected representatives do (or do not do)? This chapter looks at the consequences of politicians’ perceptions of public opinion...
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First-Measure Liability
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Robert Chambers
Published: 15 May 1997
...Considering whether resulting trustees are also personally liable to restitution of the value received is the subject of this chapter. It examines whether the personal claims for the value received by the trustee, which are ‘determined without reference to whether he still retains’ any...
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Express Trusts: Concepts, Justifications, and Boundaries
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Simone Degeling and others
Published: 30 November 2023
... different challenges and adopt a variety of methodological approaches and perspectives towards their resolution, ranging from conceptual questions about what is ‘the trust’ and ‘trusts law’, analysing the legal and/or moral statuses of each of the settlor, trustee, and beneficiary, to questioning the moral...
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Trusts, Property, and Rights
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Ben McFarlane
Published: 30 November 2023
... concept of property, or ownership, should be capable of including a trustee, as there is a significant, and not merely technical, sense in which a trustee is entitled to the trust ‘property’. While there is much existing analysis of the nature of the rights of beneficiaries, understanding the foundations...
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Dealings With Land
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Peter Luxton and Judith Hill
Published: 29 March 2001
...0 29 03 2001 Dealings with land by trustees of charities have been governed, since 1 January 17.01 1993, by provisions now contained in Part V of the Charities Act 1993. Those provisions, however, merely regulate acquisitions and disposals; they do not themselves confer a power on the trustees...
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Powers and Duty of Care
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Martyn Frost and others
Published: 26 March 2009
...0 26 03 2009 When trustees are considering the exercise of their powers, whether administrative or dispositive, they need to take various considerations into account. The impact of not doing so is discussed more fully in relation to the Hastings-Bass principle.1 Advisors to trustees also need...
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Published: 13 March 2008
...0 13 03 2008 It is not uncommon for solicitors to act as trustees under express trusts. In such circumstances, the obligations faced by the solicitor will be governed by the trust deed and relevant statutory and equitable obligations. The law relating to these areas is dealt with in detail...
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Regulation of Pension Fund Governance
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Gordon L. Clark
Published: 02 September 2009
... from trust law, fiduciary duty is the golden rule (model 1) even if its elabouration typically runs to many thousands of pages in statute. Pension-fund trustees have significant discretion in choosing the means by which they set about enhancing and protecting the welfare of others. In many respects...
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Published: 28 January 2011
... search committee after hearing about the opening in his home state. Although McVey was working on the East Coast, the search committee was able to contact him in a week. The committee immediately wanted to pursue McVey for the position. The Board of Trustees supported the recommendation. Both of McVey's...
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