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24OctOctober 24, 2022

UK. Inflation sparks a new era of pensions inequality

The generosity of public sector pensions was a compensation for low salaries. However, this gap is narrowing. The average worker in the private sector earned £622 a week in the year to August, according to an IDR analyst. The average public sector worker, excluding those who worked in finance, earned £593. Former public servants will also enjoy two layers of taxpayer-funded inflation protection next year, assuming the “triple lock” state pensions are maintained. The policy pledges to increase the state pension...

October 24, 2022

NewsInvestment, Regulation, UK

24OctOctober 24, 2022

The anxieties of growing old when you’re LGBTQ

Who would you call to bring you chicken soup? For many LGBTQ seniors who are alone, that’s no easy question. Who would bring you chicken soup if you were sick? For most people of a certain age, that’s easy — a spouse or an adult child would step up. For many LGBTQ people, however, it’s not a simple question at all. “Many [would] have to think really hard about this,” said Imani Woody, an academic and community advocate who retired from AARP...

October 24, 2022

NewsAging, Health, Retirement

24OctOctober 24, 2022

UK parliament panel probes defined benefit pension schemes over safeguards

A British parliament panel on Monday launched an inquiry into the defined benefit pension schemes with liability-driven investments (LDIs) to ascertain whether they have adequate regulation to protect pension funds' value. The work and pensions committee inquiry will examine the impact of the recent volatility in gilt yields and intervention by the Bank of England (BoE) as well as the role of the pensions regulator in monitoring the use of LDIs and whether these schemes have proper oversight arrangements in...

October 24, 2022

NewsInvestment, Regulation, UK

21OctOctober 21, 2022

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The inclusion and use of data on older people in the humanitarian programme cycle

By HelpAge International Humanitarian principles and basic human rights afford everyone the right to safe and dignified access to assistance and protection on an equal basis. Older people are among those most at risk in humanitarian crises, yet older people’s rights are frequently denied, and they receive little targeted attention from governments, donors, or humanitarian agencies. HelpAge International’s 2018 study, ‘If not now, when?’, highlights significant failings in how the humanitarian system includes older people when responding to crises. A...

October 21, 2022

Aging, Blogs, Books, Reports202, Equality, Social Protection

21OctOctober 21, 2022

P&I Research Center. Pension Risk Transfer

By Valerie Ge Over the past 12 months through June, $57.4 billion in liabilities were involved in pension risk transfer deals. Pension buyout transactions reached $25.3 billion, or 44.1% of the total, followed by buy-ins of $23.2 billion, 40.4%, and longevity swaps of $7.5 billion, or 13.1% of the total. Buyout transactions increased 93.3% from $2.9 billion in the fi rst quarter but buy-in transactions declined to $2.4 billion from $7.3 billion. Source: @s3 prod pionline 501 views

October 21, 2022

Books, Books, Pension Management, Reports, System Characterization2022, Regulation, Risk transfer, savings, US

21OctOctober 21, 2022

Individual Investors’ Housing Income and Interest Rates Fluctuations

By Antonio Gargano & Marco Giacoletti Little is known about the participation of small individual landlords in the rental market, and about rental income earned by households. Using unique tax filings data from Australia, we show that 20% of middle and retirement age median-income individuals are landlords. This fraction has risen over the last 20 years, increasing by 80% for the retirement age group. We provide evidence linking this change to cuts in interest rates, which have led older individuals...

October 21, 2022

Adequacy, Articles2022, Australia, Income

21OctOctober 21, 2022

Older Workers’ Employment and Social Security Spillovers through the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Gopi Shah Goda, Emilie Jackson, Lauren Hersch Nicholas & Sarah Stith The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a large and immediate drop in employment among US workers, along with major expansions of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to study employment among older adults and their participation in disability and retirement insurance programs through the second year of the pandemic. We find ongoing improvements in employment outcomes among older workers in...

October 21, 2022

Aging, Articles, Labor Market2022, COVID-19, Social Security, US

21OctOctober 21, 2022

The politics and economics of pension privatization in latin america

By Raúl Madrir This research note seeks to explain 'lvhya large nUl11ber of Latin Atnerican countries have privatized their pension systel11s in recent years. It argues that the privatization schelnes are a response to the severe capital shortages that have plagued their countries intennittently in recent years rather than to the financial problelns facing son1e of the pension systelns. The likelihood of pension privatization, 1 argue, is determined in large part by the vulnerability of countries to capital shortages as...

October 21, 2022

Articles, System Characterization2022, Latin America, Political economy, Private Pensions, Social Protection

21OctOctober 21, 2022

México. Minusvalías seguirán en los primeros meses del 2023

Las minusvalías que impactan al Sistema del Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR) continuarán al cierre del año y probablemente los primeros meses del siguiente año con motivo de la política monetaria del Banco de México (Banxico), comentó Abraham Vela Dib, ex presidente de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema del Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar). Vela Dib explicó en entrevista que las tasas de interés del Banco de México subirán hasta el cierre de este año y también en el primer...

October 21, 2022

Noticias, NoticiasMexico, Rendimientos

21OctOctober 21, 2022

Perú. Comisión del Congreso aprobó proyectó que permite a afiliados de la ONP pasar a AFP con todos sus aportes

La Comisión de Economía del Congreso aprobó el dictamen que permitirá a afiliados de la Oficina de Normalización Previsional (ONP) trasladarse a una Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP) con todos sus aportes. Este proyecto establece que los afiliados del Sistema Nacional de Pensiones que deseen pasar al sistema privado lo hagan con un bono de reconocimiento, siempre y cuando se hayan incorporado a la ONP desde el 2002. En la iniciativa legislativa aprobada, no se establece un monto máximo para...

October 21, 2022

Noticias, NoticiasAdministración de Pensiones, Perú

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