March 2022

Sustainable Investment & Asset Management: From Resistance to Retooling
25Mar

Sustainable Investment & Asset Management: From Resistance to Retooling

By Virginia E. Harper Ho Globally, market demand is rising for investment products and practices that take “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) factors into account, challenging asset managers and capital markets to adapt in new ways. This chapter outlines why sustainability issues are increasingly relevant to mainstream asset owners and asset managers. It then explores the evolving regulatory landscape for sustainable investment in the U.S., focusing on the degree to which it supports or facilitates ESG integration into investment management...

March 25, 2022
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25Mar

High Pay Centre briefing: Pension saver views on the social and environmental impact of investments

By Andrew Speke & Luke Hildyard Pension savings make up a significant and growing proportion of individual wealth in the UK. The latest government figures from 2018 show that £2.6 trillion is invested in UK pensions, up from £2.3 trillion in 2015.(1) Pension savings are also one of the most commonly held forms of wealth in the UK. The percentage of adults below the State Pension age actively contributing to a private pension has increased, from 43% in 2012, to 53%...

March 25, 2022
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¿Cómo ajustan los hogares sus ingresos, ahorros y consumo después de la partida de los hijos?
25Mar

How Do Households Adjust Their Earnings, Saving, and Consumption After Children Leave?

By Andrew G. Biggs, Anqi Chen & Alicia H. Munnell Whether parents adjust their consumption after their children leave home has important implications for our understanding of retirement income adequacy. Prior studies have found that parents reduce consumption after their children become independent, allowing them to save more for retirement. Other studies, however, have found that savings for retirement does not increase. If households are both consuming less but not saving more after the children leave, where are the resources...

March 25, 2022
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25Mar

Global Pension Risk Survey 2021/22. UK survey findings. The DB pension risk management journey

By AON We have been carrying out the Global Pension Risk Survey every two years for over a decade and it gives the industry great insight into how the pensions landscape has developed. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, it created many challenges for sponsors, pension schemes and their members. We saw sponsors and trustees reassessing the risks that they faced. While the impact was not negative for all pension schemes, there was a large market crash which had a...

March 25, 2022
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Pensions and the green transition: policy and political issues at stake
25Mar

Pensions and the green transition: policy and political issues at stake

By David Natali, Michele Raitano & Giulia Valenti Pension policy has gone through an intense period of reform over the past few decades. However, further changes are likely to take place in the near future. Major global trends, not only population ageing but also globalisation, technological innovation and climate change, are going to shape socioeconomic and labour organisation and influence macroeconomic trends and will thus have an impact on the adequacy and long-term sustainability of pension policy. This paper focuses...

March 25, 2022
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25Mar

México. ¿Debería existir un régimen especial de pensiones para las mujeres?

Las mujeres tienen particularidades en su vida que se deben reconocer en el régimen de pensiones, señaló Bernardo González Rosas, presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (AMAFORE). Durante el EF Meet Point Virtual. Pensiones, ¿un retiro seguro?, el especialista aclaró que este reconocimiento no significaría un beneficio inequitativo, sino de un esfuerzo en tratar de alcanzar un piso parejo para todos. “Las mujeres tienen particularidades de su vida que tenemos que incorporar a los sistemas...

March 25, 2022
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25Mar

España. El Congreso ‘salva’ la ley de planes de pensiones de empleo pero exige mejoras a Escrivá

El proyecto de ley para el impulso de los planes de pensiones de empleo ha superado este jueves su primera votación en el Pleno del Congreso rechazando la enmienda de totalidad defendida por el BNG, y apoyada por Esquerra Republicana, EH-Bildu, Más País-Equo, la CUP y Compromís, que pretendían devolver el texto al Gobierno. El PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha superado la votación con el apoyo del PP, Vox, Ciudadanos y PNV, que han defendido seguir tramitando la ley y...

March 25, 2022
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Over a third of people would accept lower pension savings for ethical investments
25Mar

Over a third of people would accept lower pension savings for ethical investments

More than a third (37 per cent) of people would be willing to accept some reduction in their pension savings if their investments were made more ethically, a study by the High Pay Centre and Survation has found. Read also UK. Creating a sustainable retirement plan Of those surveyed, two-thirds (66 per cent) said that they wanted their pension fund to reflect their ethical values and beliefs. Almost a third (29 per cent) considered insufficient pension savings as the biggest threat to...

March 25, 2022
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25Mar

México. Población informal y bajo ahorro voluntario, los retos que aún enfrenta el sistema de pensiones

La reforma que se impulsó en 2020 en materia de pensiones fue un paso importante y acertado para atacar algunos problemas que se veían en el Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro; sin embargo, aún queda trabajo por atender, como la población informal y el impulso al ahorro para la jubilación, manifestaron expertos. Durante el Foro Virtual “Pensiones ¿Un retiro seguro?”, organizado por El Financiero, Carlos Ramírez, economista, politólogo y expresidente de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro...

March 25, 2022
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US. Milliman analysis: Competitive pension risk transfer buyout rate hits all-time low in February, at 98.9%
25Mar

US. Milliman analysis: Competitive pension risk transfer buyout rate hits all-time low in February, at 98.9%

Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the latest results of its Milliman Pension Buyout Index (MPBI). As the Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) market continues to grow, it has become increasingly important to monitor the annuity market for plan sponsors that are considering transferring retiree pension obligations to an insurer. During February, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process decreased from 99.9% of a plan's total liabilities...

March 25, 2022
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