July 2021
30Jul

Cliffwater: U.S. state pension plans’ 10-year returns drop in latest annual report

U.S. state pension plans saw average median returns of 8.6% and 5.8% for the 10 and 20 years ended June 30, 2020, respectively, said Cliffwater's most recent annual state pension performance report. State plans saw an average annualized return of 9.7% for the 10 years ended June 30, 2019. Pensions & Investments' Pension Fund Returns Tracker shows that the two top-performing state pension plans for the 10 years ended June 30, 2020, were the $22 billion Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System, Oklahoma...

July 30, 2021
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30Jul

Mboweni pushing for major retirement change in South Africa

Finance minister Tito Mboweni wants a key regulatory change that will allow South Africans to access their retirement funds early. The finance minister said in a media briefing on Wednesday (28 July), that the change will be made with the proviso that workers use any funds in a responsible manner. He said that workers should be able to access a portion of their retirement funds during ‘difficult times’ – whether it be for a bond repayment or to pay off debt. “A...

July 30, 2021
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30Jul

Is the Aon/WTW deal collapse a positive for UK pensions?

The announcement that Aon and Willis Towers Watson (WTW) have called off their $30bn (£21.7bn) merger after the businesses reached an impasse with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over competition issues did not come as a huge surprise to many. While the two firms received approval (with conditions) for the merger by the European Commission in July, the tie-up had become increasingly bogged down over issues with the DOJ - issues which cumulated in the US agency filing a...

July 30, 2021
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29Jul

Measuring the Informal Economy

By Gabriel Quiros Romero, Thomas F Alexander, Jennifer Ribarsky This paper proposes a framework for measuring the informal economy that is consistent with internationally agreed concepts and methodology for measuring GDP. Based on the proposed framework, the informal economy “comprises production of informal sector units, production of goods for own final use, production of domestic workers, and production generated by informal employment in formal enterprises.” This proposed framework will facilitate preparation of estimates of the informal economy as a component...

July 29, 2021
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29Jul

FTSE 350 Defined Contribution Pension Survey 2021

By Gemma Burrows & Roy Edie We are pleased to publish the sixteenth edition of our FTSE Defined Contribution (DC) Pension Survey. When undertaking this year’s survey, we wanted to see whether the pandemic had affected companies’ commitment to DC provision. There was concern that we might see a reduction in benefits and commitment as organisations grappled with maintaining financial stability and workforce planning. Far from showing this, this year’s results reveal that organisations share a compelling desire to improve member...

July 29, 2021
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29Jul

The Informal Economy and Economic Growth of Russia

By Minhyeon Jeong The size of the Russian informal economy has attenuated since 2014. However, there are a host of workers involved in economic exercises in the informal sector, and a handful of industries seems to rely on the informal economy too-much intensively. This manuscript takes a brief look at several issues going around the concept of the informal economy, then overviews the Russian informal economy and foresees its growth implications. Source: SSRN 631 views

July 29, 2021
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29Jul

Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Aging

By Volker Grossmann, Johannes Schünemann & Holger Strulik We discuss public pension systems in a multi-period overlapping generations model with gerontologically founded human aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement policies could be designed to provide a fair and aggregate welfare-enhancing public pension system. Calibrating the model to Germany, we find that a pension system that equalizes relative pension contributions and the relative...

July 29, 2021
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29Jul

Designing the Best Solution for Retirement

By Robert C. Merton In March 2020, Robert Powell, Retirement Management Journal editor-in-chief; Zvi Bodie, PhD, president of Bodie Associates and the Norman and Adele Barron Professor Emeritus of Management at Boston University; and Stacy Schaus, founder and chief executive officer of Schaus Group LLC, spoke with Merton about retirement solutions for the twenty-first century working and middle classes, fintech, and solving for the right problems. Source: SSRN 644 views

July 29, 2021
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29Jul

Perú. ¿Nuevo sistema de pensiones? Gobierno plantea crear una comisión que elabore un nuevo sistema de reparto

¿Se avecinan cambios en el sistema de pensiones? Actualmente existen dos sistemas de pensiones: el privado (AFP) en la que cada aportante tiene su cuenta individual y el sistema público que es colectivo y administrada por el Estado (ONP). Hoy durante su discurso, el presidente Castillo dijo que “los sistemas públicos y privados de pensiones, así como la atención de la salud de la población en EsSalud y el Minsa, están en crisis”. Leer también Perú. Instan a Castillo a cumplir...

July 29, 2021
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29Jul

Chile. Presidenta de la Asociación de AFP, Alejandra Cox: “El efecto de la caída del fondo E en las pensiones no es lo que se cree”

Cox habló sobre la caída del multifondo E, y explicó que "cuando la tasa de interés sube, y el valor de los bonos baja, estos son dos movimientos en dirección opuesta, y en el caso de las personas que se van a pensionar, el valor de su fondo recibió una mala noticia, pero la tasa de interés que sube, es una buena noticia, el valor de su pensión está protegido porque los dos movimientos son en dirección opuesta". Hasta la...

July 29, 2021
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