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04MarMarch 4, 2022

US. State Pensions Can’t Dump Russian Investments They Don’t Even Know They Own

By Edward Siedle Across the nation politicians are naïvely calling for state pensions to dump their Russian investments to punish the country for its invasion of Ukraine. Since state pensions have in recent years agreed to let Wall Street fund managers keep secret their investment holdings, states don’t even know the Russian assets they hold. Yesterday, state Attorney General Dave Yost publicly called upon Ohio’s five public employee retirement funds to divest themselves of Russian financial holdings to further punish the...

March 4, 2022

News, OP Ed, Slider2022, Investment, Pension Management, Russia, Ukraine, US

04MarMarch 4, 2022

Retired women in South Africa carry a huge burden of poverty

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, recently acknowledged that “South Africa needs a new consensus to deal with poverty, unemployment and inequality”. Despite the government’s efforts to address poverty through the provision of state grants, it’s still on the rise. In 2020, it was reported that half of the population was experiencing hardships that have pulled individuals and households into poverty. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African economy had been growing very slowly, with high rates of unemployment and increasing...

March 4, 2022

News, Slider2022, Gender Gap, South Africa

04MarMarch 4, 2022

Pension Investments: Impacts of the Ukraine / Russia Crisis

Pension scheme trustees will naturally be considering what, if any, steps they may wish to take as the economic effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine have begun to be felt worldwide, and as further economic sanctions and restrictions have been imposed on Russia and Belarus. There are two issues for trustees to consider: 1.whether any of their investments are now subject to sanctions; and 2.whether, in the light of sanctions and the economic and political consequences arising from the Russian invasion of...

March 4, 2022

News, Slider2022, Investment, Pension Management, Russia, Ukraine

03MarMarch 3, 2022

War and Pensions

By John A. Turner, David M. Rajnes & Gerard Hughes Although war has had substantial effects, both positive and negative, on pension systems, the topic has received relatively little attention. War has played a role in the development of pension systems in many countries. Yet, no previous analysis has examined the full range of its effects. Source: Actuaries.org 860 views

March 3, 2022

Articles, System Characterization, System Sustainability2016, Political economy, Social Protection

03MarMarch 3, 2022

The Impacts of Matching Contributions on Retirement Savings: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Turkey

By Sadettin Haluk Çitçi & Halit Yanikkaya Using a dataset containing information for more than 39 million contracts and a quasi-experimental design provided by national matching contribution policy reform in Turkey, we study the effects of matching contributions on saving outcomes and determine heterogeneities in responses to matching contribution. Differences-in-differences estimations show that the program leads to a substantial rise in contributions paid. The matching contribution policy raises contributions paid by 18 percent. Moreover, after 30 percent sharp rise in...

March 3, 2022

Articles, Savings2022, Behavioral Science, Turkey

03MarMarch 3, 2022

War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict 2009th Edición

By F. Cocozzelli & Paul S. Chung War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict addresses the issues of rebuilding social assistance and pension programs in the wake of war. Arguing that post-conflict reconstruction missions need to pay greater attention to comprehensive social policy formation, the book makes normative and functional claims that social welfare programs articulate the core aspects of citizenship. War and Social Welfare uses the case of Kosovo to examine the interaction of international and local political actors...

March 3, 2022

Books, System Sustainability2010, Political economy, Social Protection

03MarMarch 3, 2022

Allowing Early Access to Retirement Savings: Lessons from Australia

By Nathan Wang-Ly & Ben Rhodri Newell In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world introduced policies aiming to provide citizens with financial relief through early access to their retirement savings. In Australia, the Early Release of Super (ERS) scheme allowed eligible citizens to withdraw up to A$20,000 in funds between April and December 2020. Using data provided by a large Australian bank, we examine the characteristics of the individuals who withdrew, how they used the withdrawn...

March 3, 2022

Articles, Pension design, Savings, Withdrawals2021, Australia, COVID-19

03MarMarch 3, 2022

A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States

By Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig & Jack W. Wilson Understanding the historical development of pensions is critical to the future of retirement systems around the world. A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States offers a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century. The authors emphasize how retirement plans can help achieve human resource objectives, how...

March 3, 2022

Books, System Characterization, System Sustainability2003, Public Pensions, US

03MarMarch 3, 2022

México. Conflicto entre Rusia y Ucrania impacta en afores, ¿qué hacer cuando hay minusvalías?

Los movimientos en los mercados financieros derivados del conflicto que mantiene Rusia con Ucrania ya están provocando pérdidas virtuales, minusvalías, en las cuentas de ahorro para el retiro de los mexicanos. Durante enero las afores reportaron minusvalías por 82,455 millones de pesos, para febrero las fondos de los trabajadores continúan con disminuciones. Valeria comenzó este año con 229,052 pesos en su afore y para el 2 de marzo su saldo acumulado era de 224,575 pesos, 4,477 pesos menos. También su ahorro...

March 3, 2022

Noticias2022, Administración de Pensiones, Mexico, Ucrania

03MarMarch 3, 2022

Perú. Ministra del Trabajo pide que Congreso priorice ley para retirar el saldo del 100% de fondos en las AFP

La ministra de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo, Betssy Chávez, insistió al Congreso en que priorice la aprobación del dictamen del proyecto de ley que plantea el retiro el saldo del 100% de los fondos de las Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP). Leer también Perú. Congreso: proponen ampliar bono de reconocimiento por traslado a la AFP Para ello, Chávez remitió un oficio a la presidenta de la Comisión de Economía, Banca, Finanzas e Inteligencia Financiera, Silvia María Monteza Facho. Leer también...

March 3, 2022

Noticias2022, Perú, Retiro de Fondos

March 2022