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30MarMarch 30, 2023

US. Pension Risk Transfers Spiked in 2022 due to Higher Interest Rates, Report Shows

Rising interest rates drove increased pension risk transfer activity in 2022, as these transactions totaled $52 billion in premiums last year—the highest total in the decade Aon has been tracking the information, according to a recent report. A total of 568 pension risk transfer transactions were made last year, with IBM headlining this activity by completing a $16 billion retiree lift-out in September 2022. This was the second-largest PRT transaction in U.S. history, Aon’s U.S. Risk Transfer report for March...

March 30, 2023

NewsPension Management, Risk, US

30MarMarch 30, 2023

UK. TPR launches diversity, equality and inclusion guidance for pension fund trustees

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) this week published guidance for pension scheme governing bodies and employers on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) with a view to imrpoving the EDI of UK pension schemes’ boards. Louise Davey, TPR’s director of regulatory policy, analysis and advice, said: “All savers deserve to be in a well-run pension scheme that makes decisions in their best interests.” She added: “Harnessing diverse views can help pension scheme governing bodies weigh issues in more detail and openly consider aspects...

March 30, 2023

NewsEquality, Regulation, UK

30MarMarch 30, 2023

Pension Spending Soars 10% To €12 Billion In March As Spain Takes On €6 Billion A Month In Debt

Social Security paid out €11,945.6 million in contributory pensions in February, 3 billion more than the 8,946.9 million in March 2018, a few months before Pedro Sánchez came to government. The average monthly retirement pension shot up from the €1,260 it stood at in December 2022 to €1,372 per month, up 9.7%. And since there were no differences by amount bracket, the maximum pension exceeded €3,000 per month for the first time. The average amount of new pension registrations in...

March 30, 2023

NewsPublic Pensions, Spain

30MarMarch 30, 2023

Kenya. MPs revive attempt to raise pension for former members

Parliament has revived a Bill rejected by former President Uhuru Kenyatta to increase pension for members who retired between 1984 and 2001. The Bill republished by Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa shows it will cost taxpayers an extra Sh180.9 million every year to keep former MPs who retired between July 1, 1984, and January 1, 2001, comfortable. The Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) heard that should the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Bill 2022 sail through, the former legislators will earn a monthly pension...

March 30, 2023

NewsKenya, State Pensions

30MarMarch 30, 2023

Czechs protest government bid to raise retirement age

Czech labor unions on Wednesday joined with opposition parties to protest the government's proposed bid to raise the retirement age by four years to 68. Some 2,000 protesters gathered Wednesday in front of government offices in the capital Prague to voice their opposition to the plan. “We definitely don't agree,” read a letter ratified at the gathering. “We will defend ourselves,” Roman Durco, the head of the KOVO labor union group that organized the rally told the angry crowd. Labor and Social...

March 30, 2023

NewsCzech Republic, Retirement Age

29MarMarch 29, 2023

Ministro considera que Chile podría tardar hasta 10 años en recuperarse de retiros de AFP

En el marco de su exposición en el seminario anual de BTG Pactual Latam Focus 2023, el ministro de Hacienda, Mario Marcel, anticipó que el mercado de capitales podría recuperar lo que perdió tras los retiros de las AFP en un plazo de siete a diez años. “Parece harto, pero sin eso nos demoraríamos más de 20 años en poder recuperar ese mercado de capitales“, comentó el secretario de Estado. “Un sistema con puro financiamiento fiscal no va a ser capaz...

March 29, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasChile, Retiro de Fondos

29MarMarch 29, 2023

Perú. Presidente del Banco Central califica de locura un séptimo retiro de fondos de la AFP

A inicios de marzo, el congresista Américo Gonza puso en marcha un proyecto de ley que busca permitir el retiro de hasta el 70% de los fondos de las AFP. La iniciativa ha despertado la atención de expertos, incluido el presidente del Banco Central de Reserva del Perú (BCRP), Julio Velarde, quien no dudó en calificar de locura la propuesta. Este señaló que se pretende dañar el sistema de pensiones. “A nadie se le ocurre que se pueda estar retirando...

March 29, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasPerú, Retiro de Fondos

29MarMarch 29, 2023

French unions vow further protests on 10th general strike against Macron’s pension plans

French unions vowed to continue demonstrations next week amid another day of protests Tuesday against French President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reforms — the 10th general strike this year. Clashes broke out between small groups of protesters and police, especially in Paris, where some people also ransacked a supermarket. But the number of protesters also decreased almost everywhere in the country compared to last week, according to estimates by both French authorities and unions. Around 730,000 people protested in total,...

March 29, 2023

NewsFrance, Pension Reform

29MarMarch 29, 2023

Why all policies, including pension reform, must consider climate change

“Retrait, climat, même combat,” shouted protesters during the demonstrations taking place across France this past weekend against President Emmanuel Macron’s planned, and much opposed, reform of his country’s pension regime. For these protestors, retirement and climate change are all part of the same problem, the same fight. “No retired people on a burnt planet,” they insisted. The impacts of a warming planet on the world of work are absent from the French government’s plans, yet extreme weather conditions, in particular...

March 29, 2023

NewsClimate crisis, ESG, Pension Reform

29MarMarch 29, 2023

US. Retirement Figures in DOL Budget’s SECURE 2.0 Implementation Plan

The Department of Labor (DOL) in its budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 seeks funding to implement SECURE 2.0, and that includes retirement-related priorities. The DOL seeks $4,672,000 to Implement SECURE 2.0. The DOL indicates that it has no choice but to do so. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, notes the DOL, included mandates for implementing SECURE 2.0, and that included “a wide range of retirement-focused issues.” However, they add, the Act “did not appropriate any additional resources for implementation.” SECURE...

March 29, 2023

NewsRegulation, savings, US

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