May 2020
14May

US. Federal Retirement Fund Halts Planned China Investment Under Pressure

A government retirement fund on Wednesday halted plans to invest in Chinese stocks this year, after growing criticism that the move would channel the savings of government workers to companies that are working against the national security goals of the United States. Read also Beijing hits back at Trump call to block US pension fund investment in China In a statement, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which manages the retirement savings plan, said it had “deferred the transition” of...

May 14, 2020
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14May

Beijing hits back at Trump call to block US pension fund investment in China

Donald Trump’s order to stop the US government’s main pension fund from investing in Chinese equities will only hurt US investors, Beijing has warned as trade tensions between the countries threatened to turn into a “financial fight”. Beijing officials have been worried since late last year that Mr Trump would follow up his two-year China trade battle with action in financial markets. In letters to the head of the government’s main pension fund, which Mr Trump does not directly...

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14May

UK. Govt told to scrap pensions triple lock to reduce virus debt

The pensions triple lock could be scrapped in the near future as the government looks to recoup the hundreds of billions of pounds it has spent on Covid-19 support. According to a Treasury document dated May 5, seen by the Telegraph, chancellor Rishi Sunak has been advised to break one of the Conservatives’ manifesto pledges and scrap the pension triple lock on state pension rises. Under current rules, the state pension is increased by the triple lock which is...

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14May

Tesla’s Newest Board Member Talks About Changing The World Through Japan’s $1.5 Trillion Pension Fund

By putting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) at the heart of the world’s largest pension fund’s investments, Hiromichi Mizuno (known as Hiro) not only rocked the world of traditional pension finance but also had a profound impact on the cause of socially responsible investing. During his tenure as the Executive Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Japan’s $1.5 trillion Global Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), Mizuno reached the conclusion that the fund had become so big that it essentially...

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13May

La política pública frente al Covid-19: Recomendaciones para América Latina y el Caribe

Por Allen Blackman, Ana María Ibáñez, Alejandro Izquierdo, Philip Keefer, Mauricio Mesquita Moreira, Norbert Schady, Tomás Serebrisky El objetivo de esta nota es discutir las opciones de política pública para los países de ALC y así proveer insumos de discusión para los gobiernos de la región. La nota se concentra en los retos de política pública para manejar la crisis sanitaria y económica de las primeras etapas de la pandemia: (1) la urgencia sanitaria y el confinamiento generalizado de...

May 13, 2020
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13May

Perspectivas de la Economía Mundial, abril de 2020 — Capítulo 1

Por International Monetary Fund La pandemia de COVID-19 está infligiendo enormes y crecientes costos humanos en todo el mundo. Para proteger vidas y permitir que los sistemas sanitarios puedan hacer frente a la situación ha sido necesario recurrir a aislamientos, confinamientos y cierres generalizados con el fin de frenar la propagación del virus. La crisis sanitaria por ende está repercutiendo gravemente en la actividad económica. Como resultado de la pandemia, se proyecta que la economía mundial sufra una brusca...

May 13, 2020
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13May

Comparación de planes de pensiones y planes individuales de ahorro sistemático en un entorno de tipos de interés nulos

Por Laura Gonzalez, Francisco J. Ortiz Celma, José Sáez El presente trabajo tiene por objeto la comparación del producto financiero más tradicional y contratado en España para completar la pensión pública de jubilación, el plan de pensiones, con otro producto que, teniendo el mismo objetivo, ofrece diferentes ventajas fiscales, el plan individual de ahorro sistemático. Como más adelante se justificará, la actual coyuntura de tipos de interés (cercanos a cero) impide que dicha comparación, y la posterior elección entre...

May 13, 2020
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13May

La reforma del sistema de pensiones italiano de 2019: ¿un empeoramiento de la insostenible desigualdad del sistema de protección social?

Por Davide Casale El presente artículo examina, en primer lugar, la disciplina jurídica que regula los requisitos por razón de edad y años cotizados necesarios para la jubilación en Italia. En particular analiza la principal novedad introducida con el Decreto Ley n.º 4/2019, es decir, la jubilación anticipada a “cuota 100” que requiere al menos 38 años de cotización y 62 años de edad, siempre que se obtengan como máximo en 2021. Se trata de una reducción de 5...

May 13, 2020
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13May

US. Trump Pressures Federal Pension to Halt Planned Chinese Stock Purchases

The Trump administration is pressing an independent board charged with overseeing billions in federal retirement dollars to freeze plans to invest in Chinese companies that Washington suspects of abusing human rights or threatening U.S. security. At issue is whether administrators of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), a retirement savings fund for federal employees and members of the military, should allow its $40 billion international fund (I-Fund) to track an index that includes some China-based stocks of companies under scrutiny...

May 13, 2020
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13May

COVID-19 Economy: Why Nigeria must develop digital economy, increase national savings

Foreign Investment Network (FIN) has listed a number of economic strategies Nigeria and other African countries could adopt, to avert the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. FIN is a United Kingdom-based company driving foreign direct investment, FDI for Africa and other developing economies. Read also Tesla’s Newest Board Member Talks About Changing The World Through Japan’s $1.5 Trillion Pension Fund The group, in a video conference programme it organised, themed: COVID-19 and The Economic Threat: How Africa can overcome...

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