March 2017

01Mar

Philip Green to Pay Up to 363 Million Pounds in BHS Pension Settlement

UK retail magnate Philip Green agreed to pay as much as 363 million pounds ($450 million) to compensate 19,000 former workers of collapsed department-store chain BHS after months of haggling with the country’s Pensions Regulator. The payment will enable trustees of BHS retirement plans to achieve a “significantly better outcome” than they would have under the UK’s Pension Protection Fund, Green said in a statement Tuesday. Regulators dropped their enforcement actions against the tycoon and his investment vehicles. “The settlement is...

March 1, 2017
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February 2017

28Feb

SBS: Fondos de AFP han perdido S/ 700 millones por caída en bolsa de GyM

En una semana las cuatro AFP presentes en el país han perdido unos 700 millones de soles tras la caída de las acciones de la empresa Graña y Montero (GyM) en la Bolsa de Valores de Lima, enfatizó Jorge Mogrovejo, Superintendente Adjunto de la SBS. No están expuestos. El funcionario indicó que estas entidades previsionales a fines del 2016 tenían aproximadamente un 1.09% del total del portafolio invertido en acciones de la mayor constructora del Perú. Detalló que la exposición...

February 28, 2017
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28Feb

NCSSF to manage pension funds across seven Chinese provinces

Seven of China’s local governments, including Beijing and Shanghai, have agreed to hand over the management of their pension funds to the National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF) in an effort to increase investment diversification and improve yields, Wang Zhongmin, vice chairman of NCSSF, confirmed to local media, according to a report on Chinese news site china.org.cn. This means that approximately 360 billion RMB (US$52.37 billion) will be transferred to the NCSSF for centralised asset management from local authorities,...

February 28, 2017
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28Feb

Finally, a Retirement Plan for Job-Hopping Millennials

Workers in their 20s and 30s are changing jobs at a record pace, yet they often view retirement stability as a back-burner issue. A law passed in Maryland last summer could give those without conventional pensions or 401(k) plans a way to save for retirement without the nuisance of setting up individual savings accounts. But despite broad bipartisan support in the state, the application of the law has now stalled with a new Republican Congress and White House. Maryland is one...

February 28, 2017
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28Feb

Retirement Spending and Biological Age

By Huang Huaxiong, Moshe A. Milevsky & T. S. Salisbury (York University) Abstract:     We solve a retirement lifecycle model in which the consumer's age does not move in lockstep with calendar time. Instead, biological age increases at a stochastic non-linear rate in chronological age, which one can think of as working with a clock that occasionally moves backwards in time. Our paper is inspired by the growing body of medical literature that has identified biomarkers of aging which --...

February 28, 2017
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28Feb

Social Security and the Rise in Health Spending

By Kai Zhao (University of Connecticut) Abstract:     In a quantitative model of Social Security with endogenous health, I argue that Social Security increases the aggregate health spending of the economy because it redistributes resources to the elderly whose marginal propensity to spend on health is high. I show by using computational experiments that the expansion of US Social Security can account for over a third of the dramatic rise in US health spending from 1950 to 2000. In addition,...

February 28, 2017
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28Feb

What to Do Now to Retire Better

Learn the money basics Two books to consider: “How to Think About Money,” by Jonathan Clements, and “Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor,” by Spencer Jakab. The Investor Protection Institute’s site, iInvest.org, offers free guides that explain stocks, bonds and mutual funds. You might also consider taking a personal finance course at a community college or checking the online offerings on sites like Coursera.org. Sketch out your monthly budget Add...

February 28, 2017
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28Feb

Indicador comparativo de servicios de las AFORE 2016

La CONSAR publica hoy la actualización anual del indicador comparativo de servicios que ofrecen las AFORE, el +MAS AFORE (Medidor de Atributos y Servicios de las AFORE). El +MAS AFORE ordena a las Administradoras respecto a la eficiencia, cobertura, oferta y promoción de servicios que brindaron a los más de 57 millones de clientes registrados en el SAR. El +MAS AFORE brinda a los ahorradores un criterio adicional de comparación entre las 11 Administradoras, complementario al Indicador de Rendimiento Neto...

February 28, 2017
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27Feb

5 Ways Fake News Could Be Sabotaging Retirement Plans

We've been hearing a lot about "fake news" lately and now there's some concern that the president's budget will use overly optimistic economic assumptions. Regardless of how you feel about the budget and the assumptions it's based on, that's certainly not a mistake you want to make in your own planning. After all, the government can simply pass on any mistakes to current or future taxpayers, but we have no such luxury. Here are some overly optimistic assumptions that...

February 27, 2017
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27Feb

Retired Teamster to meet with Paul Ryan, Bernie Sanders in hopes of saving crumbling retirement fund

Faced with a potentially devastating meltdown of their pension fund, retired Teamsters across the country are mobilizing to save themselves. Across 37 states — mainly in the Midwest and South — ex-truckers who had hoped to be living out their retirement in a state of relaxation have turned to political activism, building a grassroots network that rivals anything put together by a professional operative. On Monday, retired Teamster Bob Amsden will show up again in Washington — a trip he's made...

February 27, 2017
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