October 2020

Life-Care Tontines

By Peter Hieber, Nathalie Lucas This paper builds on the advantage of pooling mortality and morbidity risks, and their inherent natural hedge. We focus on classical mutual risk pooling schemes, i.e. tontines, and introduce a ``life-care tontine", which in addition to retirement income targets the needs of long-term care coverage for an ageing population. This scheme reduces adverse selection costs and is actuarially fair at each time. Pooling heterogeneous risks (i.e. different age groups) is shown to reduce overall...

The Changing Nature of Work and Public Pension Coverage: Evidence from the US and Europe

By Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Courtney Coile, Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson and Yuri Pettinicchi We examine non-standard work and its impact on pension coverage via a case study of the US, the UK, and Germany. We find that the share of workers engaged in non-standard work has changed only modestly over time in these three countries, despite the popular perception that a more significant transformation in the nature of work may be underway. We discuss how non-standard work may affect...

UK. Pensions Dashboards delayed until 2023

The long-awaited roll-out of Pensions Dashboards has been pushed back to 2023 – four years after the initial deadline for the scheme. Pensions Dashboards will allow savers to view all their various pension pots in one place – including the government pension, workplace pensions and any private pensions. Read also UK pension funds to boost renewables, survey finds Currently savers have to look at these pots separately, which can make it difficult to keep track. Read also UK. DWP launches ‘Stronger Nudge’ plans...

Pension fund of S.Africa’s Eskom to invest $170 mln in U.S. projects

The pension fund of South Africa's indebted power utility Eskom plans to invest $170 million in private equity, infrastructure and real estate projects in the United States, the U.S. embassy in South Africa said on Wednesday. Eskom Pension and Provident Fund (EPPF) will invest $100 million in private equity managed by AlpInvest and $30 million in real estate managed by Metropolitan. The two companies are owned by U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group. The remaining $40 million infrastructure investment will be...

US. Most Workers Believe COVID-19 Will Affect Their Retirement Planning

Market volatility driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and a contentious U.S. presidential election have struck fear in pre-retirees about their ability to save for the future, according to new survey results.  Principal Financial Group’s quarterly Retirement Security Pulse Survey, which looks at consumer concerns surrounding their retirement savings, finds that nearly two-thirds of workers anticipate the pandemic will impact their path to retirement.  While most retirees feel they can live comfortably over the coming months, that confidence wanes when they think longer...

Highlights of China’s elderly care over past five years

China has been running at full tilt to foster a social environment in which senior citizens are respected, cared for and live happily in the span of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), given the country's fast-growing aging population. By the end of 2019, China had a population of 254 million aged 60 or above, accounting for 18.1 percent of the national population. The number is expected to exceed 300 million in the next five years, according to the Ministry of...

Ciclo económico vital y bonos demográficos en Costa Rica

Por Luis Rosero-Bixby, Pamela Jiménez-Fontana El presente documento cuenta con 4 grandes secciones: i) Antecedentes. Costa Rica experimenta un acelerado proceso de envejecimiento poblacional. Entre el 2018 y 2080, las personas mayores de 64 años pasarán de representar 8% a un 29% del total de población. Este acelerado proceso de envejecimiento plantea retos en el financiamiento para las finanzas públicas, especialmente para el sector de salud y el sistema de pensiones. ii) Objetivo. En esta investigación se estiman...

Reforma de Pensiones en México: Principios Guía para Crear un Sistema Sostenible y Balanceado para Trabajadores del Sector Privado

Por Guillermo Zamarripa & Gustavo A. Del Angel De 1995 a 1997, México emprendió una importante reforma de las pensiones. Con ese cambio el sistema migró de un modelo de beneficio definido de pago por uso a un modelo de contribución definida. La reforma del sistema de pensiones permitió un aumento sostenido del ahorro financiero en México de 1999 a 2019. El ahorro administrado por los fondos de pensiones -las Afores- alcanzó el 16,6% del PIB a finales de 2019....

El sistema de reparto de la Seguridad Social versus envejecimiento poblacional

Por Miguel Gutiérrez Bengoechea Como consecuencia del Estado de Bienestar Social del que goza España la esperanza de vida. Este hecho ha provocado un problema demográfico de carácter estructural que afecta en mayor o menor medida a todos los Estados de la Unión Europea. En España, este problema se agudizará dentro de diez años con la jubilación de la generación conocida como el baby-boom lo que ha puesto en duda la viabilidad del sistema de reparto de la seguridad...

Reforma al sistema de pensiones en México 2020

Por José Luis Clavellina Seguridad social se refiere a la protección que la sociedad brinda a sus individuos y hogares para asegurar acceso a asistencia médica y garantizar un ingreso en caso de desempleo, enfermedad, invalidez, accidentes del trabajo, maternidad, pérdida del sostén de familia y vejez (OIT, 2003). 1 Este último, cobra especial relevancia en México debido al proceso de envejecimiento poblacional por el que atraviesa. La jubilación se alcanza al cumplir con la edad y el periodo...