September 2022
30Sep

México. Minusvalías en las afores son transitorias y no tienen impacto de largo plazo: Amafore

La Asociación Mexicana de Afores (Amafore) informó que los movimientos de los mercados financieros internacionales -y nacionales- son transitorios y no representan un impacto de largo plazo en el ahorro de los trabajadores. La Asociación Mexicana de Afores (Amafore) informó que los movimientos de los mercados financieros internacionales -y nacionales- son transitorios y no representan un impacto de largo plazo en el ahorro de los trabajadores. Actualmente, el Sistema del Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR) está en un periodo de minusvalías...

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

Panamá. Recaudo de la CSS no da para pagar $2,087 millones a jubilados

Las advertencias de la Junta Técnica Actuarial respecto a la crisis del subsistema exclusivamente de beneficio definido de pensiones no son ni lejanas ni infundadas. Read also 6 beneficios de cotizar pensión obligatoria en Colombia Entre enero y julio de 2022 se pagaron $1,303 millones en el programa Invalidez, Vejez y Muerte (IVM) y al finalizar el año se tendrá que asumir un total de gastos por $2,087 millones. Pero apenas se estiman $1,053 millones en las recaudaciones de la cuota...

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

Macron faces strike as French unions flex muscles

A nationwide strike on Thursday disrupted the French energy sector, taking a large chunk of the nuclear production offline, as workers push for a pay hike amid rising tensions between unions and the government over a planned pensions reform. "Thousands of workers are on strike today," said Philippe Martinez, chief of the hard-left CGT union as he attended a protest march in Paris along with several thousand people, many of them waving red labour union flags. "This is a message to...

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

US. Why Small Businesses Are Upping Their Retirement Plan Offerings

Last year was a fantastic for small business growth, and in its 2021 New Business Insights, Intuit QuickBooks predicted as many as 17 million new small businesses would form in 2022. It marks an increment of 2.5% from the previous year and grows to 9.8% in four years, from 2017 to 2021. While it was a great year for starting businesses, it was a not-so-great year for staffing them. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2021, more than...

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

Kenya. State to pay pension savings for 15m Jua Kali workers

The Kenya Kwanza regime has pledged to top up by half the retirement savings made by workers in the informal sector in an ambitious plan aimed at more than doubling national savings in the near term. President William Ruto said his administration will add a shilling for every Sh2 saved by workers outside the formal sector, up to Sh6,000 every year in a planned drive that targets more than 15 million workers in the Jua Kali sector. “We intend to overhaul...

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

Sustainable finance policy a ‘blind spot’ for European pension funds

Some of Europe’s biggest pension funds are not actively engaged in emerging EU-level sustainable finance policy, according to climate think tank InfluenceMap. As reported by European Pensions, the research, which covered 25 of Europe’s largest pension funds and 10 national pension fund associations, found that only four of the 25 funds and five of the 10 associations showed ‘meaningful engagement’ with sustainable finance policy. InfluenceMap stated that these findings pointed to a potential ‘blind spot’ for the industry, which has shown...

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

Ghana. SSNIT pension scheme continues to post negative return on investments; records -12.6% return in quarter 1 – Report

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) pension scheme continued to post a negative real rate of return, recording -12.6% at the end of the first quarter of this year. According to the Financial Stability Review report by the Bank of Ghana, assets available for benefits of the SSNIT-managed Basic National Social Security Scheme (BNSSS) dropped marginally by 2.3% to ¢11.28 billion in March 2022 from the ¢11.54 billion recorde in 2021 Quarter 4. Also, though the private pensions industry...

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30Sep

Behavioral Influences on Retirement Planning: Non-Financial Reasoning Affecting Retirement Outcomes

By Janet Aschkenasy The supposed rational logic of the market is no longer understood to exclusively motivate economic decision making. Behavioral economics is now a vital part of university curriculums. Both lay persons and professional retirement investors at times manage money on irrational behavioral factors. Janet Aschkenasy, a veteran business writer, discusses the insights of leading behavioral economics scholars and draws upon current research to describe "decision making" practices among individuals and retirement managers. Often higher investment returns are forfeited to a behavioral...

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

Pension Insurance Corporation Group Limited. Annual Report and Accounts 2021

By Pension Insurance Corporation Group Limited PIC is a specialist insurer which has become a leader in the UK pension risk transfer market by focusing on our purpose: to pay the pensions of our current and future policyholders. We aim to balance the interests of all our stakeholders – policyholders, employees, shareholders, regulators and others – with excellence in customer service at the heart of what we do. Source @PensionCorporation 553 views

September 30, 2022
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30Sep

The Safe Withdrawal Rate: Evidence from a Broad Sample of Developed Markets

By Aizhan Anarkulova, Scott Cederburg, Michael S. O'Doherty & Richard W. Sias We use a comprehensive new dataset of asset-class returns in 38 developed countries to examine a popular class of retirement spending rules that prescribe annual withdrawals as a constant percentage of the retirement account balance. A 65-year-old couple willing to bear a 5% chance of financial ruin can withdraw just 2.26% per year, a rate materially lower than conventional advice (e.g., the 4% rule). Our estimates of failure...

September 30, 2022
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