March 2017

17Mar

México. A partir de 2030 el retiro laboral masivo representará retos para el financiamiento

Las pensiones que reciban las dos generaciones de trabajadores que cotizan en el sistema de pensiones previo a 1997 y quienes aportan al de cuentas individuales serán desiguales y, a partir de 2030, el retiro laboral masivo representará "retos para el financiamiento", dijo ayer el presidente de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar), Carlos Ramírez Fuentes. Durante una reunión con la Comisión de Seguridad Social de la Cámara de Diputados, el funcionario insistió en que...

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

UK’s pensions rescuer warns of zombie attack

For a man who might be considered to have one of the stuffiest jobs in Britain, Alan Rubenstein does not conform to type. As chief executive of the Pension Protection Fund, the 60-year old qualified actuary and former Lehman Brothers investment banker has just celebrated his ninth year as the UK's chief rescuer of crisis-hit pension funds. Full Content: Financial News

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

Widowhood and Retirement Timing: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

By Philipp Schreiber (University of Mannheim) The combination of an increasing life expectancy, low fertility rates, and an early effective retirement age creates pressure to act for Governments and organizations. The pay-as-you-go social security systems of many countries are troubled by the increasing ratio of retirees to working people. In addition, many organizations face difficulties caused by a shrinking workforce and the accompanied shortage of skilled workers. To counteract, it is essential to create an environment in which older workers...

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

Understanding the Determinants of Financial Outcomes and Choices: The Role of Noncognitive Abilities

By Gianpaolo Parise (Bank for International Settlements) & Kim Peijnenburg (Netspar) We explore how financial distress and choices are affected by non cognitive abilities. Our measures stem from research in psychology and economics. In a representative panel of households, we find people in the bottom decile of non cognitive abilities are five times more likely to experience financial distress compared to those in the top decile. (more…)

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

US. Retirement industry to undergo major changes with or without DOL fiduciary rule

The business of saving for America's retirement is changing. The retirement industry is facing a $7.7 trillion gap, and the Department of Labor's new fiduciary rule, which states that advisers must give clients the best advice at a reasonable price, is at risk. The rule was originally supposed to take effect on April 10, but President Donald J. Trump in February ordered its review, resulting in the DOL's recent proposal to delay the rule's implementation for 60 days. Regardless of...

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

Life-Cycle Consumption, Investment, and Voluntary Retirement with Cointegration between the Stock and Labor Markets

By Min Dai, Shan Huang & Seyoung Park (National University of Singapore) We present an optimal life-cycle consumption, investment, and voluntary retirement model for a borrowing and short sale constrained investor who faces cointegration between the stock and labor markets. With reasonable parameter values, there exists a target wealth-to-income ratio under which the investor does not participate in the stock market at all, whereas above which the investor increases the proportion of financial wealth invested in the stock market as...

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

UK. It may be a case of prepare a proper pension or prepare for poverty

Pensions are undergoing some radical changes. Many more workers are accessing pension schemes through auto-enrolment, even if the adequacy of many of these schemes is poor. Good quality Defined Benefit (DB) – where you know what you put in and what you’ll get out – schemes are being replaced by often poor quality Defined Contribution (DC) – where you only know what you’ll put in, not what you’ll get out. DC schemes shift the investment risk from employers to...

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

Risks in Advanced Age

By Michael A. Guillemette (Texas Tech University) • This article outlines risks retirees face and possible solutions to help them overcome behavioral hurdles. • A preference for certainty has been observed in advanced age and older defined contribution investors exhibit equity-varying risk aversion. • Clients face declining cognitive ability over time, which corresponds with a decrease in investment performance. • Financial literacy skills decline in advanced age but confidence does not, which may lead to older clients being overconfident in their financial...

March 17, 2017
Aging
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17Mar

Amicus Brief of National Employment Lawyers Association in Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton

By Matthew C. Koski, Brian Wolfman (Georgetown University) & Wyatt Gregory Sassman (Charleston School of Law) The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) governs the conduct of employers that offer pensions and certain other benefits to their employees. In enacting the law, “Congress’s primary concern was with the mismanagement of funds accumulated to finance employee benefits and the failure to pay employees benefits from accumulated funds.” Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 136 S. Ct. 936, 946 (2016)...

March 17, 2017
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17Mar

Labor Force Participation in New England vs. The United States, 2007–2015: Why Was the Regional Decline More Moderate?

By Mary A. Burke (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) This paper identifies the main forces that contributed to the decline in labor force participation in New England between 2007 and 2015, as well as the forces that moderated the region’s decline relative to that of the nation. This exercise contributes to an assessment of the outlook for participation in New England moving forward. Similar to previous findings pertaining to the United States as a whole, the single largest factor in...

March 17, 2017
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