July 2020

30Jul

India:WhatsApp to launch insurance and micro-pension pilot schemes

Messaging app WhatsApp India is set to launch pilot schemes in insurance, micro-pension and lending in partnership with domestic service providers. Mr Abhijit Bose, head of WhatsApp India, said that the app has already run service delivery pilots with lenders such as ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank, according to a report by Financial Express. WhatsApp is yet to get the central bank’s nod to launch full-fledged payments services through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) channel and...

July 30, 2020
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29Jul

Cómo calcular las pensiones que otorga el IMSS

Por José Pérez Chávez De acuerdo con el artículo 4o. de la Ley del Seguro Social (LSS), el gobierno federal debe garantizar a los trabajadores, y a sus beneficiarios legales, la atención médico hospitalaria, farmacéutica, las prestaciones económicas por riesgos ocupacionales, por enfermedad y maternidad; así como los servicios sociales necesarios para el bienestar familiar. Mediante el seguro social se reconoce el derecho de los trabajadores a disfrutar de una pensión digna cuando se le determine una incapacidad...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

¿Qué será de mi pensión?: Cómo hacer sostenible nuestro futuro como jubilados

Por José Ignacio Conde Ruiz Los mayores de 65 años ya son legión en España, y ese aumento constante lleva parejo, por supuesto, el gasto asociado al envejecimiento, es decir, las pensiones, la dependencia, la sanidad, los servicios sociales… Los jubilados, los nuevos ninis, van a tener además que asumir las consecuencias de una realidad aplastante: el número de pensionistas no hace más que crecer, merced al generoso y continuado incremento de la esperanza de vida, pero...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

Universalización de las pensiones por vejez Costa Rica

Por Pablo Sauma Fiatt En diciembre de 2018, 332.194 personas adultas mayores (65 años y más) contaban con una pensión por vejez, contributiva o no contributiva, para una cobertura efectiva de entre el 59% y el 79% de la población de esa edad –el resultado depende de la proyección de población que se utilice–. En cualquiera de los dos casos, el país enfrenta el reto de lograr la cobertura universal de este tipo de pensiones. Se propone otorgar una...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

COVID-19 y APV:Limitaciones del proyecto que propone el retiro de fondos

Por Fernando López Para enfrentar la crisis económica producida por la Pandemia del COVID-19, el 10 de junio de 2020 la Cámara de Diputados aprobó un Proyecto de Resolución que exime del pago de impuestos y recargos tributarios a quienes retiren total o parcialmente sus ahorros provisionales voluntarios (APV). El proyecto, aprobado con 112 votos a favor y 8 en contra, señala al Presidente de la República que la crisis actual “afecta la empleabilidad de millones de chilenos, incluso de...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

Latin America private pension systems ‘constantly under political threat’: FIAP

A private pension fund industry chief said the specter of political interference is constantly circling the sector in Latin America. Decisions correspond more to ideological bias of “certain political groups” than the advice of pension experts, a webcast hosted by industry organization the International Federation of Pension Funds Administrators (FIAP) was told. “The private pension systems in our region are constantly under political threat,” said FIAP chairman Guillermo Arthur Errázuriz. He cited the example of Chile, where some quarters...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

UK pension scheme NEST tightens climate change policy

The move by the scheme, which invests the retirement savings of 9 million workers, is one of the most ambitious to date and comes as regulatory pressure builds for the industry to better manage climate-related risk. As well as the effects of climate change such as rising sea levels and more extreme weather, companies are at risk of costs associated with regulatory change and litigation linked to the transition to a low-carbon economy. "Just like coronavirus, climate change poses...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

Chilean president reshuffles cabinet over pension reform

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera reshuffled his cabinet Tuesday, replacing interior, foreign, defense and several other ministers following the defeat of a pension reform bill. Victor Perez was appointed interior minister, replacing Gonzalo Blumel, while Andres Allamand was appointed foreign minister and Mario Desbordes took over the post of defense minister. The reshuffle came after the congress passed a controversial pension reform bill last week, allowing Chileans to withdraw 10 percent of their pensions to help overcome the difficulties brought...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

Jamaica. COVID Economic Task Force Favours Lifting Pension Investment Limits

The Pension Industry Association of Jamaica, PIAJ, says the COVID-19 economic task force’s recommendations about disaggregating the limits placed on debt and equity investments, as well as an increase in the limit for private equity investments for pension funds, are encouraging. “All our lobby efforts in relation to the liberalisation of investment limits were premised on private equity having its own limit and not aggregated with private debt, as is currently the case,” said PIAJ President Sanya Goffe. Those...

July 29, 2020
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29Jul

UK. FCA Decides Not to Implement EIOPA Guidelines in United Kingdom

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced on July 8 that the guidelines issued by the European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority (EIOPA) on outsourcing to cloud service providers are not applicable to regulated activities (in this instance, insurance and reinsurance undertakings) within the UK jurisdiction. In its statement, the FCA noted that this is due to the fact that the EIOPA guidelines will enter into force on January 1, 2021, which is after the end of the EU...

July 29, 2020
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