September 2022
20Sep

Pensions, with inflation soaring, 2022 will be the worst year to retire

What impact will inflation have on pensions? An answer comes from the tenth edition of Natixis IM’s Global Retirement (GRI) Index 2022. Analysis suggests that 2022 may be the hardest year to retire in recent history. This is due to a market environment that affects retirement savings. In practice, the high inflation rate will erode part of the capital set aside but the volatility on the markets as well as the low interest rates also weigh. These are the...

September 20, 2022
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20Sep

Argentina. Reconversión laboral: la crisis de los sistemas de pensión podría extender la edad jubilatoria

“El Fondo de Sustentabilidad de los jubilados tenía 24 meses de pago hace una década, hoy estamos con menos de 4 porque se invirtió en bonos estatales defaulteados”, aseguró Andrea Falcone, abogada previsional. El crecimiento de la población mundial se está desacelerando y, según la ONU, se estima que en apenas 15 años habrá más adultos mayores de 60 años que menores de 10. En consecuencia, las empresas junto a los gobiernos comenzaron a trabajar en la reconversión laboral de...

September 20, 2022
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20Sep

African Women Impact Fund launches with USD$60 million commitment to drive an inclusive investment environment

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Standard Bank Group, with the support of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), the Motor Industry Retirement Funds (MIRF) and Copartes Pension Fund and the African Union Commission (AUC), have announced the African Women Impact Fund (AWIF) Initiative's achievement of its first commitment of USD$60 million. The announcement was made at the inaugural The Global Africa Business Initiative, held from 18 – 19 September during the week of the United...

September 20, 2022
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20Sep

The U.S. retirement system gets a ‘C+’ grade, experts say — even though it’s worth $39 trillion. Here’s why

The U.S. retirement system may seem flush — yet it ranks poorly in relation to those in other developed nations. Collectively, Americans had more than $39 trillion in wealth earmarked for old age at the end of 2021, according to the Investment Company Institute. However, the U.S. places well outside the top 10 on various global retirement rankings from industry players, such as the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index and Natixis Investment Managers 2021 Global Retirement Index. According to Mercer’s index,...

September 20, 2022
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20Sep

UK. Early pensions access could encourage people to save, says ACA

Younger generations could be encouraged to save more for the long-term if the state allowed them to dip into their retirement savings early in order to cover urgent essential expenditure. This is according to evidence submitted by the Association of Consulting Actuaries for a Treasury Select Committee inquiry examining whether the current suite of tax reliefs represent good value for money. The ACA said too many people currently do not have a cushion of adequate immediate-access savings that would cover unexpected...

September 20, 2022
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20Sep

US. Why Intelligent Aging Should Be Healthcare’s Moonshot

Tom Lawry is the National Director for Artificial Intelligence, Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft. “It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.” – Jules Renard, French author. It was the summer of 1965 when Medicare was signed into law, guaranteeing that the federal government would manage the provision and cost of medical care for all seniors. In doing so, President Lyndon Johnson proudly declared: “No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine....

September 20, 2022
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19Sep

México. Administradoras de fondos manejan 5.05 billones de pesos

Las minusvalías no son pérdidas, a menos que los trabajadores realicen traspasos o retiren recursos de la afore en este periodo. La Consar reportó que la minusvalía acumulada entre enero y agosto del 2022 suma 304,657 millones de pesos. Mientras que solamente en agosto la minusvalía fue de 71,058 millones de pesos. El regulador, a cargo de Iván Pliego Moreno, ha mencionado que la naturaleza de las inversiones es variable y es por eso que durante este año han existido minusvalías...

September 19, 2022
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19Sep

Perú. Fondos AFP aún registran caídas de hasta -5,45% en agosto

No obstante, rentabilidad tuvo mejor desempeño que en el mes previo. Tendencia a la recuperación continuaría. En agosto, la rentabilidad de los fondos AFP continuó en negativo; no obstante, se registró una ligera desaceleración y llegó hasta una caída de -5,45%, tras un máximo de -9,69% en julio, según el último reporte de la Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS). En línea con la tendencia de los últimos meses, el menor rendimiento se registró en el fondo 1, cuya rentabilidad...

September 19, 2022
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19Sep

Chile. Retiro excepcional de fondos de AFP en contexto de crisis: ¿En qué consiste indicación presentada por diputados?

¿Qué pasó? En el marco del proyecto del Gobierno que busca garantizar, vía reforma constitucional, la inexpropiabilidad de los fondos de pensiones, dos parlamentarios ingresaron una indicación que permitiría llevar a cabo retiros excepcionales y parciales dentro de un contexto de crisis. ¿En qué consiste la indicación? En conversación con Meganoticias Alerta, los diputados independientes, Jaime Araya y Carlos Bianchi, que son impulsores de la iniciativa, explicaron detalladamente en qué consiste y a quiénes beneficiaría, ya que el actual proyecto del Ejecutivo...

September 19, 2022
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19Sep

Over 75s make up over 15% of Japan’s population for first time

The share of Japan's older adult population, those over age 65, has been increasing every year since 1950 and is expected to reach 35.3% of the total population in 2040. For the first time, Japan's over 75s account for over 15% of the population, after their cohort rose by 720,000 to 19.37 million people, government data released Sunday showed, in further evidence of the country's rapidly graying society. Also hitting a record high this year was the number of those over...

September 19, 2022
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