December 2020

16Dec

US. Labor Department Finishes Fiduciary Rule for Retirement Plans

The Labor Department completed on Tuesday the Trump administration’s fiduciary rule governing advice affecting the trillions of dollars in retirement accounts. Read also US. Workers Tap Retirement Savings as a Last Resort But because the regulation won’t go into effect until after President-elect Joe Biden takes office, it is likely to be revised by the new administration. Read also Divest or direct? Pension funds weigh their options in the climate crisis “I don’t expect it to survive in its current form,”...

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

Canada’s Largest Pension Says Inflation Could Rise in Rebound

By Paula Sambo Canada’s largest pension fund says policy measures across the globe to address the Covid-19 pandemic could fuel inflation after years of under-inflation while also spurring a rebound in employment and business investment. “We’re keeping an eye on this because central banks have adjusted frameworks,” Mark Machin, chief executive officer of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, said in an interview Tuesday. “There is also the risk of a wall of money in savings accounts -- $13 trillion...

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

UK. BBC presses play on $4 billion longevity swap

BBC Pension Scheme, London, completed a £3 billion ($4 billion) longevity swap with Zurich and Canada Life Reinsurance. Read also Ireland. A new model for pensions required The deal provides the pension fund and sponsoring employer British Broadcasting Corp. "with more certainty over future funding costs, and improves the security of all members' benefits," a notice posted on the pension fund's website said. Read also UK. Canadian pension fund takes control of Trafford Centre The fund had £17.3 billion in assets...

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

US. Stock Market Gains Help Pension Funding Levels: Pension and Group Annuity Update

Corporate bond interest rates fell a little in November, but the stock market did well, and that helped make the finances of big U.S. corporate pension plans look better, according to Milliman Inc. Zorast Wadia and Charles Clark, analysts at the Seattle-based actuarial consulting firm, found that the 100 large corporate pension plans they track reported a $272 billion combined deficit in November on $1.98 trillion in pension benefits obligations, compared with a $284 billion deficit on $1.915 trillion...

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

UN organizations launch new initiative to improve the lives of older people

The United Nations General Assembly today declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Healthy Ageing. "Today's announcement of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing sends a clear signal that it is only by working as one, within the United Nations system and with governments, civil society and the private sector, that we will be able to not only add years to life, but also life to years," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, in response to...

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

La economía popular durante la cuarentena. Relevamiento realizado en el marco del proyecto monitor laboral COVID-19

Por María Inés Fernández Álvarez, María Paz Laurens, Florencia Pacífico, Carmina Pederiva, Dolores Señorans, Santiago Sorroche, Camila Stefanetti El presente informe se enmarca en el Proyecto “Monitor Laboral COVID-19. Condiciones de trabajo, trabajadores/as y derechos en tiempos de pandemia” relevando la situación de los/as trabajadores/as de la economía popular en el contexto de crisis sanitaria en función de aportar a la construcción de un mapa general del conjunto de las organizaciones de trabajadores/as frente a la pandemia provocada por...

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

América Latina ante la crisis del COVID-19 Vulnerabilidad socioeconómica y respuesta social

Por Fernando Filgueira, Luis Miguel Galindo, Cecilia Giambruno, Merike Blofield La pandemia del COVID-19 está generando en el mundo y en América Latina una triple crisis combinada y asimétrica: sanitaria, económica y social. Por otra parte, la región presenta debilidades estructurales que generan fuertes dificultades para abordar el triple desafío de contención epidemiológica, recuperación económica y mitigación de los costos sociales. Las debilidades económicas de larga data con amplios sectores de baja productividad y un modelo dual en el...

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

Origen, desarrollo y futuro de las inversiones socialmente responsables (ISR)

Por Alex Plana Paluzie Este artículo analiza las inversiones socialmente responsables, tanto su origen, como su desarrollo y situación actual. Además, se analizan los principales avances en los que se está trabajando y la posible evolución futura de este tipo de inversiones. Todo ello, con el objetivo de ofrecer una imagen general sobre este tipo de inversiones, incluyendo su correcta identificación y comprensión Fuente: AGM Abogados

December 16, 2020
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16Dec

La fragmentación de las pensiones en México y sus efectos desiguales

Por Alejandra Macías Sánchez El sistema de pensiones mexicano es uno fragmentado en el que existen más de mil subsistemas de pensiones, considerando a las instituciones de seguridad social, a las empresas productivas del Estado, a institutos de seguridad social estatal, a universidades pública e incluso estados y municipios (Vázquez-Colmenares, 2012). Además, actualmente y después de las reformas pensionarias que se llevaron a cabo a partir de 1997, así como la creación de la pensión no contributiva, el sistema...

December 16, 2020
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15Dec

Divest or direct? Pension funds weigh their options in the climate crisis

n March 2017, Waltham Forest Council in London held £53.4m in investments in coal, oil and gas through its pension fund. Each of the 16,500 current and former workers who were members of the council’s pension scheme had more than £3,000 invested in fossil fuels. But this was about to change: the previous year, the council had become the first local authority in the UK to announce the divestment of fossil fuel holdings from its pension funds. Divestment can...

December 15, 2020
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