March 2022

UK. Govt’s dashboard proposals cause widespread industry concerns

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has recommended three thresholds that must be met before pensions dashboards are launched to the public, but there is widespread industry concern around liability for incorrect or misinterpreted information, and significant doubts whether its launch is achievable by the government’s preferred dates. The Department for Work and Pensions launched a consultation into its draft dashboards regulations in January that set out detailed data presentation and communication requirements, and that reaffirmed the government’s commitment to...

Colombia. Ahorro pensional, otro de los afectados por la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania

Colombia. Ahorro pensional, otro de los afectados por la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania

La invasión de Rusia a Ucrania está impactando los mercados a nivel mundial. Día a día vemos que las bolsas de diferentes países caen, que los precios internacionales del petróleo o activos refugio como el oro suben y que el dólar se cotiza a la baja en Colombia. Leer también Colombia. Gustavo Petro reveló qué pasará con Colpensiones si llega a la Presidencia Estas tensiones también se ven reflejadas en los rendimientos de los fondos de pensiones que están cayendo. De...

US. Putin, Russian Pals “Mystery” Partners in Public Pension Deals?

America’s state and local government pensions invest as much as 40 percent of their assets in secretive, offshore “alternative” hedge, private equity, real estate and venture funds which warn that certain unidentified “mystery investors” pay lower fees, are provided greater information about investment strategies and portfolio holdings, have been granted liquidity preferences and receive superior net performance—all at the expense of America’s public sector workers. Read also US. Corporate pension buyouts record second-highest year in volume How many wealthy Russians are...

Chile. Gabriel Boric, presidente: el Chile que recibe el nuevo mandatario y 5 retos que enfrentará en sus primeros meses de gobierno

Chile. Gabriel Boric, presidente: el Chile que recibe el nuevo mandatario y 5 retos que enfrentará en sus primeros meses de gobierno

Gabriel Boric se convierte este viernes en el presidente más joven de la historia de Chile. Con 36 años, el ex líder estudiantil llega a La Moneda de la mano de una nueva generación que destrona a los dos grandes bloques de centro-izquierda y centro-derecha que gobernaron el país desde el retorno de la democracia, en 1990. Y su gobierno genera altas expectativas. El nuevo mandatario, que obtuvo un triunfo histórico en diciembre, asume con una ambiciosa agenda de cambios —con reformas...

UK. Pension schemes still playing ‘catch-up’ on ESG despite increased awareness

Just 10 per cent of pension schemes have a standalone policy on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, research from Mercer has revealed, prompting concerns that pension schemes are playing 'catch-up' on improving ESG outcomes. The analysis, which utilised data from Mercer’s Responsible Investment Total Evaluation (Rite) analysis of more than 650 UK occupational pension schemes, also revealed that only 6 per cent of schemes have a standalone policy related specifically to climate change. And whilst stewardship was carried out for...

Does ‘Impact Investment’ Perform Better Than Evil Investments?

Money is a completely made-up, invented resource. In the modern era, we literally create money out of thin air—and increasingly, it doesn’t even require any sort of physical presence. Vast fortunes are represented by ones and zeroes on humming servers, and even the values of currencies bob and weave according to strange algorithms few people truly understand. Our relationship with money is also strange. Some of the least important folks in our society get paid the most, while those who...

Mainstreaming the Trasition to a Net-Zero Economy

Mainstreaming the Trasition to a Net-Zero Economy

By Group of Thirty The evidence that climate change is posing unprecedented risks to our livelihoods is overwhelming. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) have reached the highest levels in 800,000 years. Over the last three decades, the number of registered severe weather events has tripled. The cost of weather-related insurance losses has increased eightfold over the past decade, to an average of US$60 billion; and average uninsured losses from weather events have increased sevenfold. Still, these effects pale in significance...

Report on the economic impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on the economic impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Latin America and the Caribbean

By ECLAC On 26 March 2020, the Government of Mexico convened a virtual ministerial meeting on health affairs for response and follow-up to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was attended by foreign ministers and health representatives from 30 countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), as well as regional organizations. As a result of the meeting, CELAC formed a strategic alliance with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)...

The Early Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Americans’ Economic Security

The Early Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Americans’ Economic Security

By Marco Angrisani, Jeremy Burke & Arie Kapteyn The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous effects on the U.S. economy and may have had serious negative repercussions for many Americans’ financial stability. We use longitudinal survey data from a nationally representative internet panel, the Understanding America Study, to examine the early impacts of the pandemic and policy responses to it, on Americans’ financial stability, financial well-being, and financial behavior (as of May 2020). We find that rather than experiencing large declines, Americans’...

Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save Too Little, Borrow Too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?

Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save Too Little, Borrow Too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?

By Doron Teichman & Eyal Zamir Many human decisions, ranging from the taking of loans with compound interest to fighting deadly pandemics, involve phenomena that entail exponential growth. Yet a wide and robust body of empirical studies demonstrates that people systematically underestimate exponential growth. This phenomenon, dubbed the exponential growth bias (EGB), has been documented in numerous contexts, across different populations, using both experimental and observational methods. Despite its centrality to human decision making, legal scholarship has thus far failed to...