June 2019

28Jun

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

By Adam Tooze was the “day after Lehman.” It was the day global money markets seized up. At the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, September 16 began with urgent plans to sluice hundreds of billions of dollars into the world’s central banks. On Wall Street all eyes were on AIG. Would the global insurance giant make it through the day, or would it follow the investment bank Lehman into oblivion? A shock wave was rippling outward. Within weeks...

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

Behavioral Finance and Decision-Making Models

By Tripti Tripathi, Manoj Kumar Dash, Gaurav Agrawal Behavioral finance challenges the traditional assumption that individuals are rational by focusing on the cognitive and emotional aspects of finance, which draws on psychology, sociology, and biology to investigate true financial behavior. The financial sector requires sound understanding of market dynamics and strategic issues to meet future challenges in the field. Behavioral Finance and Decision-Making Models seeks to examine behavioral biases and their impact on investment decisions...

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

The political economy of pension reform

By Sarah Brooks, Duke University, Estelle James, World Bank It has become apparent that many policies that we recommend at the Bank for technical economic reasons have not been implemented for political reasons. This discrepancy between economics and politics has led the Bank, and the academic community, to begin thinking about the political economy of reform. Considerable work has already been done on the political economy of macro-economic reform and trade policy, emphasizing factors such as incomplete information,...

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

Trends in health and retirement in Latin America: Are older workers healthy enough to extend their working lives?

By Laeticia R.De SouzaaBernardo L.QueirozbVegard F.Skirbekkc To counter the problems of demographic ageing, Latin American countries, like many nations elsewhere, are considering raising the retirement age in order to maintain fiscal balance and sustain economic prosperity. In doing so, however, they must take into account not only the simultaneous decline in older adults’ labour force participation but also poor health among those potentially affected by the change. In this paper, we use country comparable census data for 1970–2010 to...

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

Do Immigrants Delay Retirement and Social Security Claiming?

By Mary J. Lopez, Sita Slavov As the share of older immigrants residing in the U.S. begins to rise, it is important to understand how immigrants’ retirement behavior and security compare to that of natives. This question has implications for the impact of immigration on government finances and for the retirement security of immigrants. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine how immigrants’ retirement and Social Security claiming patterns compare to those of natives....

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

Switching Costs and Competition in Retirement Investment

By Fernando Luco How do different switching costs affect choices and competition in a private pension system? I answer this question in a setting in which variation in employment status allows me to identify two switching costs that jointly affect enrollees’ decisions: the cost of evaluating financial information and the cost of the bureaucratic process that enrollees must navigate when switching. I use this variation to estimate the different switching costs and study their impact on competition among pension...

June 28, 2019
Adequacy, Articles, Investing, System Sustainability,
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28Jun

Hay riesgo de que Estado no pague deuda a 387,000 afiliados de AFP

Hay unas 2,656 entidades estatales que tienen deudas con sus trabajadores y extrabajadores al descontarles el aporte de AFP y no trasladarlo a su cuenta previsional. powered by Rubicon Project Ello afecta a más de 387,000 afiliados a AFP, que tienen en su fondo de pensiones menos dinero del que les corresponde, advirtió la Asociación de AFP (AAFP). Al momento en que se jubilen u opten por retirar el 95.5% de su fondo recibirán menos recursos, dijo Giovanna Prialé,...

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

España. Moody’s advierte de una posible rebaja de ‘rating’ si se deroga la reforma laboral y la de pensiones

La agencia de calificación crediticia Moody's ha alertado de una posible rebaja del rating soberano de España, actualmente situado en Baa1 con perspectiva estable, si se revierten las reformas laboral y de pensiones, según se desprende de un informe publicado por la firma este martes. No obstante, Moody's ha explicado que el perfil crediticio de España refleja la "recuperación sostenida" y el incremento en la competitividad experimentado en los últimos años. "España está disfrutando de una recuperación fuerte y...

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

Este fondo canadiense ya invierte 29,000 mdp en México

Invertir en infraestructura carretera es uno de los principales negocios de Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) en México. Este fondo de pensiones lo ha demostrado con su participación en las autopistas Arco Norte y Guadalajara-Tepic; sin embargo, su interés de apostar por otros sectores como el ferroviario, portuario y aeroportuario continúa en el país y en América Latina. El fondo, que administra los recursos de jubilación de más de 20 millones de personas en Canadá, busca continuar sus...

June 28, 2019
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28Jun

Lebanon’s retired military personnel protest over cuts in benefits

Military veterans held demonstrations Thursday by blocking roads and burning tires in several Lebanese areas to protest over the 2019 state budget which cut their pensions and retirement benefits, the National News Agency reported. Protests began at 5 a.m. in the morning and ended at 9 a.m. following a statement by the Lebanese army calling on the protesters to open roads while emphasizing their solidarity with retired military army and their rights. Meanwhile, retired military personnel issued a statement...

June 28, 2019
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