November 2024
14Nov

Reino Unido promoverá megafondos de pensiones para movilizar inversión en infraestructuras

La ministra británica de Economía, Rachel Reeves, anunciará el jueves una reforma del mercado de las pensiones en el Reino Unido a fin de promover su consolidación en megafondos que puedan movilizar más capital para la inversión en infraestructuras. Reeves detallará su propuesta en su primer discurso anual en el palacete de Mansion House ante representantes de la City (el distrito financiero de Londres), cuando afirmará que esa consolidación podría liberar unos 80.000 millones de libras (96.232 millones de euros,...

November 14, 2024
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14Nov

Perú. SBS propone medidas para promover la oferta de fondos para aportes voluntarios

El objetivo del proyecto es que los afiliados puedan acceder libremente a nuevos fondos para aportes voluntarios ofertados de forma directa por las AFP, pudiendo elegir uno o más tipos de fondos que estas ofrezcan. La Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS), con la finalidad de promover el ahorro voluntario en el Sistema Privado de Pensiones (SPP), publicó un proyecto que define las condiciones para que las AFP puedan ofertar fondos adicionales para aportes voluntarios (FAAV) a los ya...

November 14, 2024
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14Nov

UK. Reeves in radical pension shake-up to boost growth

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning what she calls the "biggest pension reform in decades" in an attempt to boost economic growth. The government wants to merge the UK's 86 council pension schemes into a handful of "pension megafunds". It is hoped the changes will lead to billions of pounds being invested in the UK in areas such as energy infrastructure, tech start-ups and public services. Reeves told the BBC that UK public sector pension funds in their current form were not big...

November 14, 2024
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14Nov

China’s economy adapts to serve older people

One person's aging is another's opportunity. In China, companies and services are adapting to serve what demographers call the silver economy - hundreds of millions of people over the age of 60. NPR's Emily Feng has this report. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EMILY FENG, BYLINE: This is a drumming club in southwestern China for people over 65 years of age only. They've occupied a large warehouse base and filled it with rows of drums and disco lights. ZHU NANFEI: (Speaking Mandarin). FENG: Zhu Nanfei,...

November 14, 2024
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14Nov

Four Questions to Narrow the Field of Retirement Income Solutions

The ranks of retirement income solutions are already impressive and continue to grow as participants’ needs evolve and providers innovate. It may seem like a tall task for defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors to home in on the solutions that warrant a closer look—even as the growing demand for lifetime income adds urgency to the effort. We think working through four critical questions, which address aspects such as the location, income certainty and accessibility of solutions, can help bring the...

November 14, 2024
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14Nov

UK. HMRC issues National Insurance act fast warning to boost State Pension before cut-off date

The deadline for those impacted by new State Pension transitional arrangements is fast approaching HM Revenue and Customs bosses have issued a message to people to act ahead of a looming deadline. HMRC officials have disclosed that more than 10,000 payments, amounting to £12.5 million, have been made through the new digital service to boost individuals' State Pensions since its launch in April. With less than six months left to address any National Insurance (NI) record gaps dating back to...

November 14, 2024
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14Nov

Brazil. Military pensions post largest deficit among retirement systems

The segment is also the one with the most retirement benefits, according to a TCU report Targeted by the fiscal reforms under consideration by the government, Brazil’s military pension system (SPSMFA) recorded a deficit of R$49.73 billion last year, placing it as less sustainable than the General Social Security System (RGPS) and generating a per capita deficit 17 times higher. This data appears in a separate report by Walton Alencar of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), presented during the review...

November 14, 2024
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12Nov

México. El ISSSTE revisará las pensiones de los trabajadores y podrá revocarlas

Martí Batres, director general del ISSSTE, anuncia que las pensiones que excedan el límite de la ley pasarán por una verificación, en la que podrán ser modificadas o revocadas. Las pensiones otorgadas por el Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) tendrán un proceso más riguroso de revisión, verificación e incluso de revocación para aquellas superen el límite establecido por la ley. Martí Batres anunció el viernes que el ISSSTE revisará pensiones como una manera en...

November 12, 2024
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12Nov

Estos serían los casos en que podrían embargar una pensión en Colombia, tras la reforma del gobierno Petro

Con la entrada en vigencia de la reforma pensional en julio de 2025 surgen diferentes inquietudes alrededor del ahorro pensional y una duda recurrente entre la ciudadanía es cuáles serían los casos en que podría realizarse el embargo de una pensión en Colombia. De acuerdo con la legislación actual, se reconoce que las pensiones no pueden ser sujeto de embargo únicamente podría aplicar sobre ellas el descuento del 50% del valor neto para cuotas alimentarias y créditos a favor de...

November 12, 2024
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US. Why do workers yearn for defined-benefit pension plans?

A closer look at the Boeing negotiations only makes the question more puzzling Boeing Co. unionized workers recently voted to accept the aerospace company's third contract offer and end their strike. The agreement does not include reopening the Boeing (BA) defined-benefit pension plan, which was cited as the major reason that the union rejected the second offer. Even though the strike is over, I find the fact that reopening the pension plan played such a prominent role in the negotiations really...

November 12, 2024
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