November 2019

04Nov

Shift: Digital Marketing Secrets of Insurance Agents and Financial Advisors

By Jeremiah D Desmarais Insurance agents and financial advisors are being taught outdated marketing and sales strategies to grow their businesses. Cold calling, seminars, online leads, networking groups and display ads are showing less returns. At the same time, according to Google, every 5 seconds someone is searching for a financial or insurance product to meet their needs, yet most agents are unaware of how to reach this growing market. Shift is a compilation of exclusive, rarely-before-seen techniques, strategies and best practices used...

November 4, 2019
Books, Books, Pension Management
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04Nov

A micro-macro economic analysis of pension auto-enrolment options

By Maxime Bercholz, Adele Bergin, Tim Callan, Abian Garcia Rodriguez, Claire Keane Like many other countries, Ireland faces challenges in relation to the adequacy and sustainability of pensions. These challenges have been examined in detail in a series of reports (Government of Ireland, 2007; OECD, 2014; Government of Ireland, 2018a). All of these reports identify pension coverage in the private sector as a key issue. Burke and Gilhawley (2018) estimate that only 30% of the private sector in Ireland had a supplementary pension1 in 2017....

November 4, 2019
Books, Books, Pension design,
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04Nov

Behind the Success of Dominated Personal Pension Plans: Sales Force and Financial Literacy Factors

By Giuseppe Marotta (Department of Economics Marco Biagi and CEFIN) The revealed preference for dominated insurance-based personal pension plans in Italy is a decade-long puzzle. I surmise that a motivation from the supply side is a sales force factor deriving from the geographical distribution of financial providers, including the countrywide network of the state controlled Post Office. I provide supporting evidence using three biennial waves of the Bank of Italy’s survey on household finances from 2010 to 2014. The time...

November 4, 2019
Articles, Savings,
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04Nov

Evidence on Usage Behavior and Future Adoption Intention of Fintechs and Digital Finance Solutions

By Johannes M. Gerlach (Chair of Financial Services, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Heinrich-Heine-University) & Julia K. T. Lutz (Chair of Financial Services, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Heinrich-Heine University) Financial Technology Companies are gaining popularity and becoming more relevant within financial services industries worldwide. This growth can be encouraged by the EY FinTech Adoption Index, which indicates a global average FinTech Adoption of 33.0% in 2017. With regard to Financial Technology Companies and Digital Finance Solutions, this...

November 4, 2019
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04Nov

Stewardship in the UK – The 2019 Draft Stewardship Code in Context

By Eva Micheler (London School of Economics - Law Department) The article interrogates the idea of creating a market for stewardship and identifies obstacles that stand in the way of such a market. In particular tax relief for pension investments deprives pension investors from an incentive to monitor investment and demand stewardship activity by their service providers. By granting tax relief the government has become a financial contributor to and a stakeholder in the financial services industry that services pensions....

November 4, 2019
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01Nov

The Disruptive Impact of FinTech on Retirement Systems

By Julie Agnew, Olivia S. Mitchell This volume examines how technology is transforming financial applications, and how FinTech promises a similar revolution in the retirement planning processes. Robo-advisors and mobile savings apps are a few harbingers of innovations to come. Nevertheless, these changes will bring with them new ethical and regulatory considerations, design challenges related to promoting adoption by an older population less trusting of technology, and concerns over data security and privacy. Our contributors take stock of the disruptive...

November 1, 2019
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01Nov

México. Amafore se une al Día Mundial del Ahorro

El ahorro para el retiro y la cantidad de mexicanos que invierten para contar con recursos suficientes al momento de su retiro laboral están en niveles bajos. Datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Inclusión Financiera elaborada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (Inegi) muestran que sólo 47 por ciento de adultos ahorra a través de medios formales. A su vez, una encuesta realizada por la Asociación Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Amafore) revela que...

November 1, 2019
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01Nov

Thailand’s $30 Billion Pension Fund Curbs Risk in New Allocation

Thailand’s $30 billion Government Pension Fund is lowering exposure to riskier assets in a revised asset allocation for the medium to long term. The plan involves bolstering exposure to defensive Thai stocks, including those offering higher dividends, as a cushion against any downturn or market volatility, the fund’s Head of Investment Strategy Arsa Indaravijaya said in an interview. “The new allocation points to a de-risking mode,” he said in Bangkok. “Risky assets have been shaved off, reflecting a late cycle that we’re moving...

November 1, 2019
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01Nov

Insisten en la creación de un ente autónomo y público de pensiones en El Salvador

Alrededor de 50 sindicatos de El Salvador, aglutinados en el movimiento "No + AFP", insistieron este jueves en la creación de una entidad autónoma y pública en el país centroamericano para la administración de los fondos de las pensiones de los trabajadores estatales y privados. Los sindicalistas de los sectores de justicia, salud, educación y seguridad realizaron una manifestación que recorrió algunas de las principal calles de San Salvador y que concluyó en el Parque Libertad, donde los...

November 1, 2019
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01Nov

World’s Largest Pension Fund Sees Gain as Japan Stocks Rally

The world’s biggest pension fund posted a gain for a third consecutive quarter, with Japanese stocks providing the best return among assets amid a global shift to value shares in September. Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund returned 1.1%, or 1.8 trillion yen ($17 billion), in the quarter ended Sept. 30, with assets totaling 161.8 trillion yen, it said Friday in Tokyo. Domestic stocks were the fund’s best performing investment, gaining 3.3%, while foreign equities added 0.1%. The return was 1.2%...

November 1, 2019
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