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05AprApril 5, 2023

Menos del 60% de los mexicanos ahorran para su retiro, ya que gastan el dinero en el corto plazo

El futuro de los mexicanos es incierto, debido a que menos del 60% tiene la posibilidad de ahorrar dinero para su retiro, y la mayoría utiliza sus ahorros para gastos de corto plazo o imprevistos. Específicamente entre los años 2018 y 2021, el ahorro para el retiro activo de los mexicanos se redujo del 67.8% al 56.6% debido al impacto que generó la pandemia de COVID-19 en los empleos y el nivel de ingresos, de acuerdo con un estudio...

April 5, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasAhorro, Mexico

05AprApril 5, 2023

Aging, Inadequacy, and Fiscal Constraint: The Case of Thailand

By Phitawat Poonpolkul, Ponpoje Porapakkarm & Nada Wasi We use an overlapping generations model to study the challenge in developing countries with a large informal sector and aging populations. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system into the calibrated model. Unlike developed countries, workers in developing countries commonly transit from the formal sector to the informal sector, which can be in the early stage of their working life. This...

April 5, 2023

Adequacy, Aging, Articles2023, Informal Sector, savings, Social Protection, Social Security, Taxation, Thailand

05AprApril 5, 2023

Perú. Trabajadores aportarían el 9% de sus ingresos para su jubilación

La inexorable reforma del sistema de pensiones sigue gestándose en diversos frentes, pero desde la Comisión de Trabajo del Congreso ya hay una propuesta concreta: reducir la carga al trabajador e involucrar a los empleadores. El predictamen denominado “ley que optimiza el sistema de pensiones” propone que el afiliado ya no destine hasta el 13% de sus ingresos para su pensión, sino un 9%. El resto de la tajada lo complementarán el empleador (hasta en 4%) y el Estado (1%). “El...

April 5, 2023

Noticias, Noticias, UncategorizedAhorro Voluntario, Perú

05AprApril 5, 2023

Chile. Chile Vamos presenta propuesta de reforma de pensiones a ministra Jara: plantean libertad de elección y fortalecimiento de las cuentas individuales

Tal como se tenía previsto, este martes los jefes de bancadas de Chile Vamos se reunieron con la ministra del Trabajo, Jeannette Jara, para entregarle su propuesta en materia de reforma previsional. La reunión se sostuvo en las dependencias de la oficina de la Secretaría General de la Presidencia (Segpres) en la Cámara de Diputados. En su propuesta, Chile Vamos plantea una lista de siete puntos. “Para avanzar en una reforma que responda a lo exigido por los chilenos, es...

April 5, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasChile, Reforma de Pensiones

05AprApril 5, 2023

Colombia. El debate sobre la reforma laboral que trasciende a la pensional

La ministra de trabajo de Colombia, Gloria Inés Ramírez, se aferra a las anotaciones de las iniciativas que podrían marcar su legado como primera militante comunista en integrar el gabinete presidencial. Lleva consigo el resumen de las reformas laboral y pensional, dividido en cuatro columnas cuidadosamente organizadas: lo que dicta la norma actual, los cambios que contemplan los nuevos proyectos, en qué artículo de la Constitución o convenio internacional se sustenta cada uno de ellos y las modificaciones que...

April 5, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasCobertura, Colombia, Reforma Laboral

05AprApril 5, 2023

US. NYC pension leaders to seek emissions cut plans from fund managers

New York City pension leaders will press external fund managers, including private market fund managers, on Wednesday for details on their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, officials said. Public, and private market managers that have faced less pressure on climate issues to date, run most of the roughly $240 billion in New York City pension fund assets. Boards overseeing the majority of that money have approved new expectations for those managers, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said, which...

April 5, 2023

NewsESG, Pension Management, US

05AprApril 5, 2023

$2 Billion Loss at Sweden’s Pension Fund Has Stocks Chief Put on Leave

Sweden’s biggest pension fund Alecta has put its equities chief on leave and announced a plan to reduce risk exposure after reporting $2 billion in investment losses tied to last month’s US banking crisis. On Tuesday, Alecta said it would scale back large stakes in companies far from its home market and named Ann Grevelius as acting head of equity portfolio management. Liselott Ledin, the equities chief responsible for making Alecta one of the largest shareholders in Silicon Valley Bank...

April 5, 2023

NewsInvestment, Pension Management, Sweden

05AprApril 5, 2023

Nigeria: NLC, TUC Threatens to Resume Strike in Imo State

Organised labour under the auspices of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC ) warned that its members may be forced to resume the suspended strike in Imo state if the state government failed to resolve the lingering industrial dispute. In a letter addressed to Imo state Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, dated March 31, 2023, the two labour bodies urged the state government to fix a date for final resolution of the dispute with workers. NLC had directed...

April 5, 2023

NewsNigeria, Pension Payout

05AprApril 5, 2023

French unions to keep up pensions protest after talks with PM fail

France's labour unions will keep up their fight against a planned rise of the legal retirement age, they said on Wednesday, after a meeting with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne failed to end months of gridlock over a deeply unpopular reform. Wednesday's talks were the first high-stakes meeting between the government of President Emmanuel Macron and union bosses since nationwide protests and strikes against the legislation started in mid-January. The talks, ahead of a new day of walkouts and marches planned for...

April 5, 2023

NewsFrance, Pension Reform

05AprApril 5, 2023

Younger workers stashing more in retirement plans, Vanguard study says

Younger workers today are participating in their workplace retirement plans at higher rates than they were 15 years ago, and they're saving more, according to new research from Vanguard. In 2021, 62% of Generation Z workers — those between the ages of 18 and 24 — participated in the retirement plans offered through their employers, up from 30% of people in that age range who did so in 2006. Their average deferrals also ticked up to 5.4% from 4.8%. Millennials too...

April 5, 2023

NewsGen Z, Millennials, Retirement Planning, savings

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