September 2019

05Sep

Los secretos para administrar un fondo de pensiones

¿Con qué frecuencia sucede que un fondo público de pensiones elige a alguien para administrar su dinero y luego se queda con esa persona durante 43 años? Solo conozco un caso que ha durado tanto tiempo. Bowen, Hanes and Company Inc., firma de asesoría de inversiones con sede en Atlanta y dirigida por Jay Bowen, ha recibido el reconocimiento nacional por su larga permanencia en la supervisión del fondo Tampa Fire and Police Pension Fund. Bowen, quien se desempeña...

September 5, 2019
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05Sep

Hong Kong. Legacy Trust have launched a crypto pension plan

The Hong Kong based company Legacy Trust has opened a pension plan based on digital assets. In what could be a world first the company have started a voluntary pension plan open to employers and the self-employed for which contributions and the underlying portfolio can include digital assets. Vincent Chok, CEO of Legacy Trust said: "Investors are moving beyond speculation — they want to use digital assets and bring them into a diversified portfolio," he then added "We...

September 5, 2019
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05Sep

The road to bankruptcy: Romania’s fiscal deficit to reach 8 pct of GDP by 2022 if the new pension law is implemented, IMF says

The new pension law could double Romania’s already sizable fiscal deficit, which could reach 8 percent of GDP by 2022, and raise external financing needs to excessive levels if it will be implemented as is without offsetting policy measures, International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts warn. For 2019, IMF estimates a fiscal deficit of 3.7 percent of GDP in Romania. The government has enacted a new law that will double the pillar I pension benefits by 2022, without yet spelling...

September 5, 2019
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05Sep

South Africa. How SA Can Create a Safe and Sustainable Environment for Retirement

Socially responsible investing is a topic that still does not get the necessary attention in the retirement fund industry. This is despite the fact that Boards of Trustees and Management Committees of retirement funds have a clear fiduciary duty in this regard. Corporate failures related to a lack of proper governance have destroyed close to R800 billion in value for retirement fund members in recent times. Uncertainties related to government policies such as prescribed assets have become an additional...

September 5, 2019
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05Sep

Samsung Securities Signs MOU with Canadian Pension Fund for Infrastructure Investment

Samsung Securities Co. has joined hands with a foreign pension fund for the first time in the domestic investment banking industry to expand its reach in global infrastructure investment. The company announced on Sept. 4 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on mutual business partnership with Montreal-based institutional investor Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ) at the company’s head office in Quebec, Canada, on Sept. 3 (local time). Founded in 1965, CDPQ...

September 5, 2019
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05Sep

Ageism is putting all our retirements at risk

Pensioner poverty, we are often led to believe, is a thing of the past. Apparently, the Baby Boomer generation has been so successful at defending its interests that the greedy old buggers are raking it in. It is claimed that we live in a ‘retirement aristocracy’. Pensioners spend their days jetting off on holiday or sauntering around the golf course. They are sitting pretty in their oversized, overpriced homes. Meanwhile, younger generations are said to be miserably stuck at...

September 5, 2019
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04Sep

Panorama de Las Administraciones Publicas: America Latina y El Caribe 2014: Innovacion En La Gestion Financiera Publica

por OECD Esta publicacion ofrece un conjunto de mas de 30 indicadores para ayudar a quienes toman las decisiones de politica, a analizar y referenciar el desempeno de los gobiernos, tanto al interior de la region latinoamericana como comparado con los paises miembros. Consigue el libro aquí

September 4, 2019
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04Sep

El despertar del “social media banking”

por BBVA Innovation Center, Innovation Center, BBVA A los bancos les cuesta dirigir a los clientes hacia los canales digitales. Éstos siguen percibiendo que las sucursales ofr para operaciones simples y complejas. Esta es una de las pinceladas del informe World Retail Banking Report 2015 elab una muestra de 16.000 personas en 32 países--, que destaca que en España el uso de los canales de Internet y móvile 2015 respecto a 2014 pasando de un 53,7% al 70,5% en...

September 4, 2019
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04Sep

Pensiones en México 1995-2018: ocaso de una estrategia fallida

Por Gustavo Leal Fernández En este trabajo se revisan algunas aristas del desafío pensionario mexicano en pleno siglo XXI. Ellas confirman la urgencia de aplicar una revisión integral del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR) edificado a partir de los –poco prometedores resultados– de la reforma al imss (1995) y su posterior extensión al issste (2007). Además de los babyboomers que pasarán a retiro próximamente, un gran pendiente se proyecta sobre las nuevas generaciones de millennials y su...

September 4, 2019
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04Sep

Un análisis preliminar para el rediseño curricular de la Cultura Financiera. Aportes de la Ingeniería Didáctica

Por Alma Yereli Soto Lazcano, María Reyna Navarro García, Liliana Suárez Téllez La inclusión de la Cultura Financiera en la educación media superior y superior en México aún no está incorporada al currículo oficial ya sea en forma de una asignatura o de manera transversal. Para investigar sobre una intervención didáctica en el tema del Ahorro para...

September 4, 2019
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