September 2020

08Sep

Origen y mantención de la informalidad en la Región de América Latina y el Caribe

Por Orielle Solar, María José González y Patrizio Tonelli En este primer apartado se abordan algunos antecedentes que han acompañado el debate de la informalidad, así como también, se realiza un breve recorrido por las tres principales perspectivas que se han desarrollado en torno a este concepto desde la década del setenta a nivel global pero particularmente en la región. Asimismo, se discuten algunos aspectos críticos del concepto, se exponen los principales modelos utilizados para la medición de...

September 8, 2020
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08Sep

Covid-19: ¿la vivienda protege a los mayores en América Latina? Argentina y Colombia comparadas con España

Por Juan A. Módenes,Mariana Marcos, Diva Marcela García Proteger a la población mayor en el nuevo paradigma de la covid-19 no puede confiarse solo al confinamiento en la vivienda. Menos aún en América Latina. La estructura de los hogares, las características de la vivienda y la actividad laboral de los corresidentes condicionan la exposición de los mayores a los contagios dentro de la vivienda. Para medir esa exposición, este número de Perspectives Demogràfiques propone el cálculo de un indicador...

September 8, 2020
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08Sep

Managers Of $40 Trillion Make Plans To Decarbonize The World

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is a European group of global pension funds and investment managers, totaling over 1,200 members in 16 countries, who control more than $40 trillion in assets (€33 trillion). They have drawn up a plan to cut carbon in their portfolios to net-zero and hope other investors will join them. Read also One of Sweden’s Biggest Investors Starts ESG Pressure Campaign The group’s mission is to mobilize capital for a global low-carbon transition...

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08Sep

Philippines. 80% of senior citizens have no mandatory pension —Diokno

A huge majority of elderly Filipinos have no pension or retirement fund, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno said Tuesday. “Based on the latest report of the Philippine Statistics Authority, the Philippines has around 7.6 million Filipinos aged 60 years old and above,” Diokno said during the virtual launch of the digital Personal Equity Retirement Account (PERA), an investment tool for retirement. “Of this group, only 20% are covered by either SSS (Social Security System) or GSIS (Government...

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08Sep

UK. £2.5trn of pension assets at risk from scammers

Up to £2.5 trillion of pension assets are at risk of being lost to scammers, according to a new report. The research from The Police Federation and The People’s Pension concluded that greater powers are needed to help prevent transfers to suspected scam schemes. As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to cause a rise in pension fraud, the research from workplace pension provider The People’s Pension and policing think tank the Police Foundation, found that from 13 pension providers alone,...

September 8, 2020
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08Sep

ANC on prescribed assets in South Africa

The ANC’s head of Economic Transformation, Enoch Godongwana, says that the party is moving away from talk of ‘prescribed assets’ as economic policy, but still wants to find ways to ‘unlock’ South Africa’s pensions to assist with the country’s infrastructure goals. Godongwana was speaking to Insurance company Alexander Forbes in an interview on a range of economic topics, including the party’s plan for pensions and prescribed assets in South Africa. Read also South Africa. There’s a pensions train...

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08Sep

US. Should Pre-Retirees And Retirees Worry About The Presidential Election’s Impact On Their 401(k)?

It’s understandable if pre-retirees and retirees are nervous about the impact of the upcoming presidential election on their retirement savings, especially if they’re keeping up with the news these days. If they are, they might feel as if they’re being whipsawed between conflicting headlines they’ve read or heard in the media. For example, President Trump claims the stock market will crash if Biden is elected, but not if he himself is reelected. On the other hand, several recent news...

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07Sep

Poverty trap in Mexico, 1992-2016

By Eduardo Loría The paper aims to prove that between 1992 and 2016, people in poverty as a proportion of the total population has not been reduced. In particular, food poverty (FP) represented an average of 22%, despite the fact that gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and GDP, social development expenditure and food programme expenditure (both as GDP proportion) grew by 0.96%, 1.9%, 2.7% and −17.4% on an annual average, respectively. Design/methodology/approach There are non-linear relationships between...

September 7, 2020
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07Sep

UK universities and staff face huge jump in pension contributions

UK universities and thousands of their staff face increased annual pension costs totalling billions of pounds under proposals to plug an estimated £18bn deficit in the sector’s main retirement scheme. Read also £15bn boost if UK scraps pensions triple-lock, says think tank The £67bn Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s largest private-sector pension fund, will on Monday lay out a range of options to reduce the burgeoning deficit, which was £3.6bn in 2018. Read also US. The crisis of multiemployer pension...

September 7, 2020
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07Sep

US. DOL´S mixed message for plan sponsors

The Labor Department is on a tear. In recent actions, it has opened the door for sponsors of defined contribution retirement plans to consider adding alternative investments such as private equity to their lineups. And it also sent a stern warning for both defined benefit and DC plan sponsors over including investments with an explicit ESG focus. More recently, it has proposed blocking an ERISA plan sponsor's ability to vote a proxy unless the issue has an economic impact on...

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