PENSION FUND INVESTMENTS: AN INITIAL GEOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT

• Published in: The Professional geographer Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 416 - 427
• Main Authors: Botts, Howard A., Patterson, John G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.1987; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Blackwell; Association of American Geographers
• Subjects: Bgi / Prodig; capital flows; Financial geography; Human geography; pension funds; Political and economic geography; regional investment patterns; Sunbelt/Snowbelt

Despite the importance of interregional shifts of capital in contributing to patterns of regional development, pension funds, a large and growing source of capital in the world, have received limited empirical investigation by geographers. An initial assessment of the geographic impact of selected p...