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07OctOctober 7, 2021

Temporal Reframing of Recurring Savings Reduces Perceived Pain and Helps Those with Lower Financial Literacy to Save

By Stephen Shu Steve Thomas & David A. Smith While assessments of the Gig Economy vary in terms of size, growth, and heterogeneity, most studies suggest that this segment of the economy is sizeable, growing, and diverse in terms of types of work. Some concerns in the literature include both the present and future welfare of workers in the Gig Economy. More granular, temporal reframing of savings (e.g., save $5 a day versus $150 a month) has been shown to...

October 7, 2021

Articles, Pension design, Savings2021, Behavioral Economics, Financial Education, Informal Sector

07OctOctober 7, 2021

Income Trajectories in Later Life: Longitudinal Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

By Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert Clark, Annamaria Lusardi We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as they aged. We focus on low-income older adults and follow them over time to identify the factors associated with having low income at baseline and thereafter. We find that (a) real income remained relatively stable as individuals approached and entered retirement, and progressed through their retirement years, and (b) labor force participation declined and...

October 7, 2021

Aging, Articles, Pension design2021, Income, Labor Market, Social Security

07OctOctober 7, 2021

Las grandes ventajas del ahorro voluntario de las que poco se habla

En México solo el 44% de la población adulta en México (30.7 millones) tienen el hábito de ahorrar, por lo cual la cultura del ahorro es una actividad que se encuentra en desarrollo dentro de la población, al igual que la búsqueda de algunas alternativas para fomentar este hábito. Una de ellas y la cual se encuentra al alcance de todos los mexicanos, es el ahorro voluntario que pueden realizar a través de su Afore. Los trabajadores activos tienen una...

October 7, 2021

Noticias2021, Afores, Ahorro Voluntario, Mexico

07OctOctober 7, 2021

Argentina. ANSES logró la cifra más alta de jubilaciones y pensiones de los últimos 6 años

La Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social (ANSES), informó que a través de sus distintos canales de atención -presencial y virtual-, realizó 1.386.539 trámites entre jubilaciones, pensiones, Asignaciones Universales y Familiares y otros beneficios. Leer también Ahorro e inclusión financiera: una revisión de la literatura desde la Economía del Comportamiento Al respecto, la directora ejecutiva de ANSES, Fernanda Raverta, afirmó que "desde principios de año nos comprometimos a redoblar nuestros esfuerzos para recuperar el tiempo que la pandemia nos había quitado...

October 7, 2021

Noticias2021, ANSES, Argentina, Pension

07OctOctober 7, 2021

Retiros de las AFP en Chile ya golpearon al mercado de capitales: Banco Central

El presidente del Banco Central de Chile, Mario Marcel, dio cuenta de la huella que han dejado los anteriores retiros de los fondos de pensiones en el mercado de capitales locales. Durante un seminario, contextualizó el impacto con el énfasis en que esto no es un escenario futurista: “La verdad es que esto es algo que ya está ocurriendo. Hoy día nuestro mercado de capitales ya ha perdido profundidad, porque ha perdido 20 puntos del Producto en fondos de pensiones,...

October 7, 2021

Noticias2021, AFP, Banco Central, Chile, Retiro de Fondos

07OctOctober 7, 2021

Mujeres deben velar por su ahorro para el retiro: especialistas

Las mujeres también deben preocuparse por ahorrar para el retiro y obtener una pensión digna, señalaron especialistas en el tema. Durante la conferencia: “Mujeres, ¿Cómo obtener una pensión si trabajan por su cuenta o en casa?”, que fue presentada en el marco de la Semana Nacional de Educación Financiera, la VP de Vinculación de Amafore, comentó que es importante que las mujeres destinen una parte de sus ingresos al ahorro para el retiro. Sin importar si se dedican al hogar o...

October 7, 2021

Noticias2021, Ahorro Voluntario, América Latina, Mujeres

07OctOctober 7, 2021

More Holocaust survivors to receive pensions from German government

The Claims Conference, which negotiates payments for Holocaust survivors with the German government, announced Wednesday it had secured pensions for an additional 6,500 Holocaust survivors who endured the siege of Leningrad, as well as other groups who were able to flee Nazi terror in other parts of Europe. In its annual negotiations with the German government, the NGO works to expand the number of people eligible for compensation. The 6,500 survivors who will benefit from the latest announced payments will...

October 7, 2021

News, Slider2021, Germany, Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, Pension

07OctOctober 7, 2021

Assembly candidate: New Jersey should mine Bitcoin to pay off its debts

New Jersey ranks 50 out of 50 when it comes to its financial state. According to Truth in Accounting, New Jersey has accumulated $189.6 billion (as of September 2020) in debt. Ballpark best guess, we each owe $57,900 — and we have Trenton insiders to thank for this ever-escalating burden. The state’s financial grade is an F and we are going to have to get creative to settle our accounts. I’ve not even mentioned the over $225 billion in retirement...

October 7, 2021

News, Slider2021, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, New Jersey

07OctOctober 7, 2021

BlackRock Adds Annuity Product to Meet Participant Demand

BlackRock’s annuity product just got a lot more popular. The New York-based investment management company announced that five plan sponsors, representing $7.5 billion in target date investments, are electing to use BlackRock’s annuity product as their default investment option in company retirement plans. BlackRock is anticipating a 2022 adoption by the plans of its LifePath Paycheck, which will affect 120,000 U.S.-based 401k plan participants, including those in the Tennessee Valley Authority Retirement System. The announcement comes on the heels of its...

October 7, 2021

News, Slider2021, 401k, BlackRock, Investment, Retirement

07OctOctober 7, 2021

Hong Kong Policy Address: MPF offsetting – allowing employers to dip into pensions – will be scrapped

Hong Kong’s controversial Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) offsetting mechanism will be scrapped, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Wednesday in her policy address. The mechanism allows employers to dip into workers’ pension funds to make long-service and severance payments, a system which has come under fire for years from unions and fundholders themselves. The offsetting will be fully scrapped as early as 2025, when the launch of an electronic management platform for the MPF (eMPF) is completed. According to a government source,...

October 7, 2021

News, Slider2021, Hong Kong, pension funds, Pensions, pensions scheme

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