December 2021
01Dec

UK pensions regulator signs off on first ‘superfund’

UK pension regulators have given a green light to the first “super fund”, a new and controversial integrated vehicle designed to take over the operation of traditional pension schemes. Clara Pentions, which is dominated by reinsurance firm Wilton Li and investment firm Six Street, will be the first superfund to get regulatory approval on Tuesday.Regulators in the name of Clara list The number of superfunds that are considered to have good governance, good and good management, and good capital. Approval of...

December 1, 2021
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México. Pandemia aceleró la digitalización de los trámites en ahorro pensionario: BID

En el contexto sanitario, en México se autorizó el retiro parcial por desempleo y de matrimonio, así como el traspaso de administradora de fondos mediante Afore Móvil. La pandemia de Covid-19 aceleró el proceso de digitalización de trámites que un trabajador inscrito en cualquier sistema de ahorro para el retiro pudiera hacer. No obstante, este cambio digital que fue forzado por la circunstancia es la conclusión a la que se llegó en la novena edición del “Global Pensions Programme”, que...

December 1, 2021
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01Dec

US. Treasury Sets 2021 Retirement Plan Amendment Deadlines

The IRS has issued its required amendments list for 2021, setting deadlines for changes in qualification requirements for employee benefit plans and end-dates for remedial amendment periods. The remedial amendment period lets employers retroactively fix plan modifications that inadvertently altered their tax status. Generally, employers have until the end of 2023 to make those changes for 2021 amendments. The required amendments pertain to individually designed retirement plans and 403(b) group annuity plans but exclude government-sponsored health and retirement benefits. Read more @Bloomberg...

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Envían a Comisión proyecto de ley para retiro pensiones de la AFP
01Dec

República Dominicana. Envían a Comisión proyecto de ley para retiro pensiones de la AFP

La Cámara de Diputados informó, mediante un comunicado, que se enviará a la Comisión Bicameral de Seguridad Social el proyecto de ley para el retiro del 30% del fondo de pensiones a los afiliados de la AFP. La entidad hizo público el anuncia mediante su cuenta oficial de Twitter. «Se envía a la Comisión Bicameral de Seguridad Social el proyecto de ley que permite a los afiliados de las AFP, el retiro único anticipado y opcional de hasta el 30% de...

December 1, 2021
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01Dec

How Staying Physically Active May Protect the Aging Brain

Staying physically active as we age substantially drops our risk of developing dementia during our lifetimes, and it doesn’t require prolonged exercise. Walking or moving about, rather than sitting, may be all it takes to help bolster the brain, and a new study of octogenarians from Chicago may help to explain why. The study, which tracked how often older people moved or sat and then looked deep inside their brains after they passed away, found that certain vital immune cells...

December 1, 2021
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01Dec

UK universities hit by strike action over pay and pensions

More than a million students will be hit by three days of strikes on campuses across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland starting on Wednesday, in the latest round of an increasingly bitter dispute in which university leaders have accused leftwingers within the University and College Union (UCU) of blocking progress over a possible deal. Fifty-eight universities will be affected where staff backed a ballot on strike action called by the UCU, halting lectures and tuition at the country’s largest universities,...

December 1, 2021
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US. Corporate pension buyouts hit $15.8 billion in Q3 LIMRA survey

Pension buy-in transactions, in which an insurer reimburses the company for benefit payments the plan will make to its retirees and beneficiaries, are very common in the U.K., but rare in the U.S. Mark Paracer, assistant research director at the Secure Retirement Institute, said in a news release Tuesday that the combined year-to-date volume for buyout and buy-in sales of $25 billion sets the stage for the U.S. pension risk transfer market to exceed the record $36 billion set in...

December 1, 2021
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November 2021
30Nov

Colombia. Ratifican tope de 25 salarios mínimos mensuales para pago de pensiones en Colombia

El Consejo de Estado ratificó la sentencia que impuso un tope de 25 salarios mínimos mensuales vigentes al pago de pensiones en Colombia. Así mismo, dejó en claro el hecho de que no es necesario obtener el consentimiento del beneficiario, “ni adelantar un procedimiento de lesividad” para llevar a cabo el proceso. La ratificación se da luego de que la Corte Constitucional declarara inexequible el régimen pensional de congresistas y magistrados. Adicionalmente, explicó el Consejo de Estado que, para su puesta en...

November 30, 2021
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30Nov

Why Is Africa’s Largest Pension Pulling Out of Africa’s Largest Asset Management Firm?

Africa’s largest pension, the South Africa-based Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), allowed its contract with the country’s Public Investment Corporation (PIC) to lapse, effectively pulling $4.4 billion out of the continent’s largest asset manager. Read also Here Are The Regulatory Changes In The Kenyan Pensions Industry For the $110 billion pension, this equates to approximately 4% of its total assets under management (AUM). The contract was five years long and expired this past March. Read also Bosnia miners end 9-day protest after...

November 30, 2021
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30Nov

UK government floats plan to relax fee limit on pension fund investments

A fee limit protecting UK retirement savers from high charges is poised to be loosened further under proposals aimed at prompting pension funds to put billions of pounds into unlisted investments like private equity. On Tuesday the government will announce plans to allow “well-designed” performance fees, typically levied by private equity and venture capital managers, to be excluded from a workplace pension fee cap, according to details of the proposal seen by the Financial Times. These fees are currently included in...

November 30, 2021
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