June 2022

México. Periodistas independientes ya podrán tener seguro por enfermedad y pensión

El presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador presentó el seguro para periodistas independientes, el cual garantiza el acceso a protección social para los profesionistas de este actividad que trabajan por cuenta propia. Leer también México. Monto de traspasos entre afores se desaceleró en abril Al detallar en qué consiste el seguro, el vocero de Presidencia, Jesús Ramírez, informó que el 25% del presupuesto total destinado a la compra de publicidad oficial en este 2022 se utilizará para el seguro. Leer también Mujeres representaron...

Perú. AFP: rentabilidad de fondos cayó hasta 8,3% en mayo

Los usuarios más cercanos a jubilarse todavía son los más afectados, con pérdidas en el Fondo 1 por sexto mes consecutivo. Y el Fondo 2, que agrupa al 91% de afiliados, también registró pérdidas. Leer también Perú. AFP: ¿qué piensan de los retiros anticipados de los fondos pensionarios? Retiro CTS 2022: paso a paso de cómo retirar o transferir el dinero a mi cuenta Retiro de AFP 2022: revisa a qué entidad del Sistema Privado de Pensiones estás afiliado ...

México. Monto de traspasos entre afores se desaceleró en abril

Durante abril, el monto de dinero de los traspasos entre las administradoras de fondos para el retiro (afores) fue de 28,859 millones de pesos (mdp), esto significó la cantidad más baja en lo va del año, de acuerdo con datos de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema del Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar). Durante marzo la cantidad de dinero que se observó por traspasos alcanzó su pico más alto en lo va del 2022 con 51,906 millones de pesos. En tanto,...

US. Senators introduce SECURE 2.0 companion

Less than two weeks after releasing a discussion draft, leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee introduced a retirement security bill that will likely serve as a piece of the Senate's SECURE 2.0 package. Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., committee chairwoman, and Richard Burr-R-N.C., the committee's ranking member, introduced the Retirement Improvement and Savings Enhancement to Supplement Healthy Investments for the Nest Egg Act, or RISE & SHINE Act, and said their committee will markup the bill on...

UK. Women Need Extra 18 Years of Work to Equal Pension Savings as Male Peers, Survey Finds

Women would need to work an additional 18 years full-time to save the same amounts of money into their pensions as men, research suggests. Women aged 65 will typically have accumulated £69,000 in private pension wealth, compared with average men's savings of £205,800, according to workplace pension provider Now: Pensions and the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI). With women living on average four years longer than men, they need to save more throughout their lifetime to accommodate longer periods in retirement, the...

Nigeria. ‘Pension fund assets rise by N1.53 trillion in one year’

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has released its First Quarter One 2022 Report, showing strong growth in pension fund assets and scheme memberships. The report shows that the total value of Pension Fund Assets under the management of Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) increased by N1.53 trillion yearly from N12.34 trillion recorded as of the end of Quarter One 2021 to N13.88 trillion as of the end of Quarter Two of 2022. Quarterly, total pension assets rose by N46 billion from the...

France no longer sees raising retirement age to 65 as ‘a priority’

Pension reform, a key pledge from President Emmanuel Macron’s presidential election campaign, is no longer a major priority for the government, new Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has said. Mr Macron had said multiple times that he planned to raise the pension age in France from 62 to 65 years, and said that the move would be one of the only ways to tackle the pension deficit. However, new PM Ms Borne has now said that it is no longer seen as...

US. Corporate Pension Health Continues to Worsen in May

U.S. corporate pension plans ended May with a drop in their aggregate funded status — a simple measure of their financial health. The funded ratio for U.S. corporate pension plans decreased by 0.9 percentage points from April 30 to May 31, according to Wilshire’s May 2022 U.S. corporate pension plans funding report. Specifically, the aggregate funded ratio of the combined assets and liabilities of corporate pension plans sponsored by S&P 500 companies dropped from 98 percent at the end of...

German government to set minimum pension fund investment quota for VC allocations

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) is planning to set a minimum investment quota for venture capital investment allocations by public and private pension plans, according to a report by Investment & Pensions Europe. The proposal would result in a total of €30 billion invested in VC funds as the government looks to boost the amount of capital available to start-ups. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) has drafted a start-up...

Cinco hechos destacados del envejecimiento y la vejez en México

Por María del Carmen García Peña, Flor María de Guadalupe Avila Fematt, Elizabeth Caro López, Juana Catalina Murillo González, Martha Liliana Giraldo Rodríguez, Marcela Agudelo Botero, Mariana López Ortega, Mario Ulises Pérez Zepeda & Raúl Hernan Medina Campos A fin de aportar un enfóque analítico innovador, se identifican una serie de hechos destacados que caracterizan y catalogan el estado que guardan las personas adultas mayores en el México de hoy. Estos hechos se presentan como realidades generales que no permiten...