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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

29MarMarch 29, 2023

Canada to Ask Pension Funds to Disclose Crypto Exposure

Canada's national government said federally regulated pension funds in the country will need to disclose their crypto assets exposure to the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), as Ottawa tightens its regulatory oversight on the volatile industry. "To help protect Canadians’ retirements, Budget 2023 announces that the government will require federally regulated pension funds to disclose their crypto-asset exposures to OSFI," the government said in the new 2023 budget plan. The federal government will also work with provinces...

March 29, 2023

NewsCanada, Cryptocurrencies, Investment

28MarMarch 28, 2023

Reforma de pensiones incrementará recursos en Bolsa en México

Con la reforma al sistema de pensiones de México, los recursos en las Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Afores) prácticamente se duplicarán y beneficiará al mercado de valores porque se anticipa mayor flujo e inversiones en acciones de empresas mexicanas, consideró Carlos Peyrelongue, analista de Investigación en Merrill Lynch México. El especialista, mencionó en entrevista, que con el aumento de las participaciones patronales, los recursos que administran las Afores representarán 32% del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) hacia el 2030,...

March 28, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasInversión, Mexico

28MarMarch 28, 2023

Crisis en Francia y el debate de pensiones en Chile

La semana pasada tuvimos la noticia de que el presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, mediante un decreto aprobó su reforma previsional. La aprobación de esta medida que aumenta la edad mínima de jubilación desde los 62 a los 64 años, ha provocado una ola de protestas en el país europeo que ha dejado cerca de 300 detenidos. ¿Cuál es el propósito de esta medida? La medida busca reducir los déficits del sistema previsional francés, el cual se estima que para...

March 28, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasChile, Edad de retiro, Francia, Reforma de Pensiones

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