A comprehensive reference work that explores recent changes and future trends in the principles that govern institutional investors and fiduciaries.

1. Introduction; Part I. Fiduciary Duty: A Global Outlook: 2. The public fiduciary - a Canadian perspective; 3. The basis of fiduciary duty in investment in the United States; 4. Governance and accountability in UK pension schemes; 5. Institutional investment and fiduciary duty in Australia; 6. The regulation of institutional investment in Sweden: a role-model for the promotion of responsible investment?; 7. The Dutch pension system; Part II. Fiduciary Duty and the Landscape of Institutional Investment: 8. The philanthropic fiduciary; 9. Paradigm lost: employment-based defined benefit plans and the current understanding of fiduciary duty; 10. Economically targeted investing: changing of the guard; 11. Institutional investment in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme; 12. Have institutional fiduciaries improved securities class actions? A review of the empirical literature on the PSLRA's Lead Plaintiff Provision; 13. The future of fiduciary obligation for institutional investors; Part III. Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Fiduciary Duty: 14. Is the search for excessive alpha a breach of fiduciary duty?; 15. Fiduciary duty and sin stocks: is vice really nice?; 16. Whose risk counts?; 17. Sustainability, financial markets and systemic risk; 18. Uncertain times, plural rationalities and the pension fiduciary; 19. Emotional finance and the fiduciary responsibility of asset managers; Part IV. Towards a Broader Interpretation of Fiduciary Duty: 20. Fiduciary duty and the search for a shared conception of sustainable investment; 21. Pension fund fiduciary duty and its impacts on sustainable investing; 22. Reason, rationality and fiduciary duty; 23. Socially responsible investment and the conceptual limits of fiduciary duty; 24. Fiduciary duty at the intersection of business and society; 25. Challenging conventional wisdom: the role of investment tools, investment beliefs and industry conventions in changing our interpretation of fiduciary duty; Part V. Beneficiaries' Roles and Viewpoints: 26. The voice of the beneficiary; 27. Understanding the attitudes of beneficiaries: should fiduciary duty include social, ethical and environmental concerns?; 28. Operationalizing socially responsible investment: a non-financial fiduciary duty problem; 29. The preferences of beneficiaries: what can we learn from research on retail investors?; Part VI. Fiduciary Duty and Governance: 30. Investors and global governance frameworks: broadening the multi-stakeholder paradigm; 31. Investment fiduciaries, the role of the public corporation, and greater commitments to sustainability: signals from the corporate board; 32. Reporting and standards: tools for stewardship; 33. US corporate governance, fiduciary success and stable economic growth; 34. Fulfilling fiduciary duties in an imperfect world - governance recommendations from the Stanford Institutional Investor Forum; 35. Addressing the participation gap in institutional investment: an assessment framework and preliminary results; 36. The costs of fiduciary failure - and an agenda for remedy; Index.