January 2022
19Jan

Impactos de la COVID-19 en el sistema internacional y en la integración regional

Por Miguel Ángel Vázquez Ruiz, Carmen O. Bocanegra Gastelum, Amalia Stuhldreher, Amílcar Davyt, Alberto José Hurtado Briceño, Johana del Valle Molina Durán, Sadcidi Zerpa de Hurtado, Roberto Goulart Menezes, Rafael Alexandre Mello, Jorge Damián Rodríguez Díaz & Stéphan Sberro Son muy variados los cambios que la covid-19 traerá en la pospandemia, la cual será una dura etapa de recuperación de los profundos estragos que deja el coronavirus y se dependerá de las decisiones que tome la humanidad, si serán mayoritariamente...

January 19, 2022
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19Jan

Ahorro y patrones de comportamiento colectivo en el sistema de pensiones de México

Por Giuliana Triberti & Ricardo Massa Países como México, con mercados laborales altamente informales, podrían beneficiarse de la identificación de actitudes y comportamientos colectivos hacia el ahorro. En ese sentido, el presente trabajo busca construir sobre el debate del marco de decisiones a corto/largo plazo de la Teoría Conductual del Ciclo de Vida (BLC), recalcando actitudes colectivas asimétricas hacia el ahorro dependiendo de la condición formal o informal de los agentes en el mercado laboral. A través de una estrategia...

January 19, 2022
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19Jan

Puerto Rico gets green light to end five-year bankruptcy

The judge overseeing Puerto Rico’s nearly five-year-long debt restructuring process has approved a debt adjustment plan that is intended to revitalize the commonwealth’s economy and reduce its $135 billion in liabilities. Read also UK. More universities join USS strike U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain approved the plan in an order filed on Tuesday, bringing nearly half a decade of litigation over Puerto Rico’s financial standing to a close and marking a historic moment for the largest-ever U.S. municipal debt restructuring. Read...

January 19, 2022
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19Jan

The elephant in the room: Bringing sustainable investment to Africa

By Fiona Stewart The coronavirus pandemic has renewed interest in sustainable investing strategies that allow investors to both protect the financial value of their assets and contribute to solutions to global problems such as climate change. These investments have become increasingly mainstream, and now account for more than $39 trillion in the five major global markets, a 34 percent increase over two years, according to the latest trends reported by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance. Read also Ghana. Lack of Pension...

January 19, 2022
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19Jan

Pensions dashboards should have interactive features, says ABI

Pensions dashboards should have interactive features to meet younger people’s digital needs, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). The ABI commissioned research which found that seven in 10 working people would like dashboards to be interactive. The industry has been working on dashboards which will allow people to see all their pensions in one place for several years. Younger people were more likely than those of retirement age to want options which are not just “read-only”, including using modelling tools...

January 19, 2022
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Puerto Rico afronta la mayor reestructuración de deuda municipal de la historia de EE.UU. tras aprobar la Justicia su plan
19Jan

Puerto Rico afronta la mayor reestructuración de deuda municipal de la historia de EE.UU. tras aprobar la Justicia su plan

Años de acumulación de deuda, devastadores huracanes, conmoción política y una larga pandemia son algunos de los retos que ha enfrentado Puerto Rico mientras buscaba la aprobación de la Justicia estadounidense para reestructurar su deuda. La decisión de la juez federal Laura Taylor Swain de dar luz verde al plan de la isla para salir de la bancarrota, pone fin a un litigio de casi cinco años y facilitará su regreso a los mercados de capital. Puerto Rico acumuló niveles insostenibles...

January 19, 2022
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19Jan

David Sinclair explains what an ageing population means for economies around the world

The world has been ageing for some time, according to David Sinclair, Director, International Longevity Centre, but policy has still not caught up to tackle the potential problems this may cause for the world. He says that an ageing population will have an impact on the future like at no other time in history and will change everything from cities, transport and consumption to relations between countries, and for that to be positive rapid policy changes are needed. The below interview...

January 19, 2022
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México. Por reformas, se pensionaron 27 mil trabajadores en 2021
19Jan

México. Por reformas, se pensionaron 27 mil trabajadores en 2021

La reducción transitoria en 2021 de las semanas cotizadas a 750, año en que se empezó a jubilar la primera generación bajo el esquema de Afore, hicieron posible que 27 mil 396 personas se pensionaran, cifra superior a los 12 mil que estimaron las autoridades antes de que se aprobara la reforma al Sistema de Pensiones para el Retiro (SAR) en diciembre de 2020. De acuerdo con el balance de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro...

January 19, 2022
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18Jan

Pension funds and other institutional investors reduce allocations to fixed income, says survey

In a new Aeon Investments' survey of pension funds and other institutional investors in Europe and the US, who collectively have around USD436.5 billion in assets under management, nearly one in four (23 per cent) said they have reduced their allocation to traditional fixed income assets over the past 18 months by up to 10 per cent, and half (51 per cent) said they have cut it by between 10 per cent and 15 per cent. A further 14 per...

January 18, 2022
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18Jan

Japan’s Sustainable Bond Market Helps Fund Aging Population

Japan is using the corporate bond market to tackle the challenge of having the world’s oldest population. Daiwa Securities Living Investment Corp. became the latest issuer to tap the market for social debt on Tuesday with the sale of a 10-year bond to refinance investments in facilities for the elderly at a coupon of 0.46%. Although the amount raised was only 2 billion yen ($17.5 million), the bond follows offers last year from Daiwa House Reit Investment Corp., United Urban Investment...

January 18, 2022
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