December 2017

12Dec

México. Promueven ahorro para el retiro con entradas al cine

Las personas que comiencen a hacer aportaciones voluntarias a su administradora de fondos para el retiro (afore) mediante la aplicación AforeMóvil podrán ser acreedoras a entradas para el cine. Así lo informaron la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar) y MasterCard, cuyos tarjetahabientes podrán acceder a cuatro boletos para el cine al hacer su primera aportación voluntaria. El monto mínimo es desde 50 pesos, y debe hacerse desde una tarjeta de débito de MasterCard a través de...

December 12, 2017
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12Dec

UK. FCA cracks down on steelworker pensions advisers

Three financial advice firms have stopped giving advice to steelworkers on transferring pension savings from a 15 billion pounds pot into other schemes, the Financial Conduct Authority said on Monday. The financial services industry watchdog has visited seven financial advisers and asked four more for information. “As a result of this work three firms have stopped advising consumers on pension transfers,” the FCA said in a statement. “The FCA plans to visit a further six firms this week.” Read more @Reuters

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12Dec

South Africa. Government pensions survive Steinhoff fraud

The Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF) yesterday assured its more than 300 000 beneficiaries their money was safe and would still keep flowing following the fraud being investigated at Steinhoff Investment Holdings and the subsequent collapse of its share price. Trading in Steinhoff opened at about R6 yesterday morning from about R55 on December 1 when the scandal broke, and closed at R8.60. “As at March 31, 2017 the GEPF through PIC owned about R28 billion in Steinhoff International Holdings which...

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12Dec

Don’t Penalize Workers for Retiring Later

The last decade has seen most countries in the rich world raise the retirement age in order to improve the sustainability of their pension systems at a time when people are living longer, healthier lives. The policy is moving in the right direction, but it has one key flaw -- current policies are too rigid. Retirement should not be a one-size-fits-all system where those who work longer or retire earlier are penalized. Provided they get it right, governments and citizens...

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11Dec

China’s pension funds struggling to cope with ageing population-state media

Thirteen pension funds in regions and administrative units around China only have enough money to pay less than one year’s worth of pensions, media reported on Monday, as the country struggles with an ageing population and shortfalls in the nation’s pension schemes. Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Shaanxi, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Qinghai, Heilongjiang and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps can all pay less than one year’s worth of pensions to workers covered under the respective funds, the...

December 11, 2017
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España. Basta ya de excusas

Durante los últimos cinco años han menudeado las advertencias preocupadas de las organizaciones nacionales e internacionales sobre el sistema de pensiones en España. La financiación del sistema se enfrenta a dos graves problemas difíciles de afrontar sin una reforma profunda de ingresos y gastos. Por una parte, el empleo precario no puede pagar las prestaciones de 8,3 millones de pensionistas, de forma que el Gobierno ha recurrido al Fondo de Reserva (la hucha de las pensiones). Pero la hucha...

December 11, 2017
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Chile. Rosales y propuesta de pensiones: “La novedad es que la AFP no sea la columna vertebral del sistema”

El jefe programático de la candidatura de Alejandro Guillier, Osvaldo Rosales, confirmó que éste no tiene contemplado eliminar las AFP, tal como lo plantea el Frente Amplio, y sostuvo que si bien la opinión de dicho sector es respetable “nosotros no somos el Frente Amplio”. En el marco de un debate organizado por la Asociación Interamericana de Periodistas de Economía y Finanzas (Aipef Chile), con el coordinador económico del comando de Sebastián Piñera, Rodrigo Vergara que se desarolló este lunes,...

December 11, 2017
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11Dec

UK. Government urged to fasttrack ban on pensions cold calling

Pensions cold calling must be banned next year to prevent people being “avoidably conned out of their life savings”, an influential committee of MPs has said. The Work and Pensions Select Committee has warned the Government that the scale of the scamming is likely to be grossly underestimated by official reports. It has urged the Government to fasttrack an existing plan to ban the practice and also to do more to ensure that people are given guidance before they decide to...

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11Dec

The Power of Percentage: Quantitative Framing of Pension Income

By Henriette M. Prast (Tiburg University) & Federica Teppa (De Nederlandsche Bank) We investigate whether the quantitative frame used to communicate future pension income to plan members matters for perceived pension income adequacy. We allocate plan members randomly to one of four pension income framing conditions: annual pension income, monthly pension income, pension income as percentage of current income, pension income as decimal of current income. We find that expressing projected pension income as a percentage (decimal) of current income...

December 11, 2017
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11Dec

The Facts of Women's Labor Behavior in the Field of Education

By Spankulova Seitkazievna (Narxoz University) In the article the labor behavior of women in education in post-Soviet countries is analyzed. model of employment of women (men as well), which was formed in Soviet years, has not undergone significant changes during the years of economic reforms. Expanding the accessibility of formal social security programs to the elderly has changed the behavior of this population in the labor market. Women do not receive social old-age pensions in the same amount as men,...

December 11, 2017
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