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25MayMay 25, 2021

US. New York City Pensions to Fund $250 Million Apartment Venture

For New York City’s pension funds, there’s no time like now to invest in new apartments. The two largest retirement systems -- covering public school teachers and municipal employees -- are teaming up with developer Hudson Cos., to allocate $250 million for construction of middle-income housing in the city and surrounding suburbs, the developer said. The pensions will commit $243.75 million of that equity, which will be leveraged to build as many as 10 projects or 2,000 units, said Joe Riggs,...

May 25, 2021

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25MayMay 25, 2021

UK. Pension fee shake-up

Proposals include introducing a threshold of £100 or below which a person cannot be charged a flat fee by their pensions provider, helping limit the erosion of small pot pensions and protect savers. This will stop pensions worth £100 or less and invested in the default funds of schemes used for automatic enrolment being gradually whittled away by the fees, a situation commonly faced by people who change jobs frequently or take up short-term contracts. Minister for Pensions, Guy Opperman said: We...

May 25, 2021

News, Slider2021, COVID-19, Pension Management, Regulation, UK

25MayMay 25, 2021

Dutch manager APG forms joint venture to help ABP invest in Chilean forests

Dutch pensions provider APG formed a joint venture on behalf of its largest pension fund client to invest in forests in Chile. On behalf of the €495.3 billion ($601.5 billion) ABP, Heerlen, Netherlands, APG formed the company with British Columbia Investment Management Corp. and South American investment bank BTG Pactual's timber investment group. BCI has C$171.3 billion ($141.4 billion) in AUM. The new venture will invest $385.5 million in forestry in Chile, owning more than 80,000 hectares of Chilean forest across...

May 25, 2021

News, Slider2021, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Pension Management

24MayMay 24, 2021

El ahorro pensional de los colombianos bajará con la pérdida del grado de inversión

La baja de calificación crediticia de Standard & Poor’s tiene varios efectos para la economía del país. El más evidente es la caída de los precios de los Títulos de Tesorería (TES), que son títulos de deuda pública interna emitidos por el Gobierno Nacional a través del Ministerio de Hacienda. Esto afecta principalmente a sus inversionistas, entre los que se encuentran las Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones y Cesantías (AFP) Leer también Colombia. Asofondos tendrá congreso virtual en junio sobre...

May 24, 2021

Noticias2021, Ahorro, América Latina, Colombia, Inversión

24MayMay 24, 2021

Chile. Superintendente de Pensiones: “Un sistema de reparto no funciona en Chile, es absolutamente inviable”

El superintendente de Pensiones, Osvaldo Macías, se refirió al futuro de las AFP tras la conformación de la Convención Constitucional, luego de las elecciones del 15 y 16 de mayo. Leer también Inversiones y Rentabilidad de los Fondos de Pensiones “Los constituyentes van a jugar un rol clave en definir los ejes que podrá tener un sistema de pensiones, la Constitución no puede definir el sistema de pensiones, pero sí va a definir fundamentos importantes en los que va a estar...

May 24, 2021

NoticiasAmérica Latina, Chile, COVID-19, Retiro de Fondos

24MayMay 24, 2021

Colombia. Asofondos tendrá congreso virtual en junio sobre el futuro de las pensiones y el ahorro

Asofondos llevará a cabo los primeros tres días de junio un Congreso Virtual para discutir sobre la coyuntura y su incidencia en el ahorro, las pensiones y los mercados financieros. La pandemia ha traído desafíos inmensos, a lo que se suman las tensiones sociales durante las últimas semanas. Los temas que se tratarán en el conversatorio serán las amenazas sobre la política monetaria, las finanzas gubernamentales y oportunidades y riesgos para el ahorro. Además, se tratarán temas políticos y sociales...

May 24, 2021

Noticias2021, Administración de Pensiones, América Latina, Colombia, COVID-19

24MayMay 24, 2021

Ireland. Bringing order to a fragmented pensions landscape

The transposition into Irish law of the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) II directive at the end of April represented a game changing event for Irish pensions, says PwC pensions partner Munro O’Dwyer. Ireland has more than 100,000 pension schemes, the majority of them one-person arrangements, and the net effect of the new rules could be to reduce that number to less than 200. That rationalisation will be prompted by the increased regulatory obligations and costs imposed on pension schemes. IORP...

May 24, 2021

News, Slider2021, Ireland, Pension Management, Regulation

24MayMay 24, 2021

UK. One in five savers have three or more pensions

One in five savers in the UK have three or more pension pots, while almost half (47 per cent) have two or more, according to research commissioned by Hargreaves Lansdown. The study, conducted by Opinium, also found that less than a quarter (24 per cent) had ever transferred a pension. Men were more likely to have transferred a pension, with 26 per cent of male respondents having done so, compared to 22 per cent of women. However, Hargreaves Lansdown noted that it...

May 24, 2021

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24MayMay 24, 2021

Bulgaria. Average Salary shows significant growth and pensions with it

The average salary registered over 10 percent growth year-on- year.On the other hand, the share of remuneration from work in the overall household budgets has shrunk, while the share of incomes from pensions and social benefits has grown. Despite the reported growth of the average salary up to BGN 1,500, this does not apply to all sectors of the economy. Traditionally, the highest incomes are in the information and communication technologies and in the health sphere - due to the...

May 24, 2021

News, Slider2021, Bulgaria, Income, Social Security

24MayMay 24, 2021

UK. Top British companies forced to pump £200bn into pension schemes to prop them up, figures reveal

Top British companies have been forced to pump £200billion into their pension schemes to avoid a drop in funding, figures reveal. Read also UK pension asset owners join Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance Law firm Lane Clark & Peacock said the sum – equivalent to the economic output of Czechia – was needed to counter tumbling share prices and bond yields. Read also UK. One in five savers have three or more pensions It warned that firms were 'running just to stand still' and that...

May 24, 2021

News, Slider2021, COVID-19, Funding, Pension Management, UK

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