March 2019

29Mar

Infonavit devolverá millones de pesos a pensionados del IMSS

A partir del 1 de abril el Infonavit devolverá millones de pesos a pensionados del IMSS; esto se depositará en sus cuentas personales. Una buena noticia para todos aquellos que cotizaron hace años y pensaron que su dinero se había perdido: el Instituto Nacional del Fondo de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (Infonavit) anunció la devolución del fondo de ahorro para los trabajadores que cotizaron entre 1972 a 1992 y que nunca reclamaron su dinero. El programa, con apoyo...

March 29, 2019
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29Mar

Nigeria. PenCom launches Micro Pension Plan and invests N6.5tr in securities as Buhari promises retirees better deal

•Contributory scheme hits N8.74 trillion in January Acting Director General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Aisha Dahir-Umar, has said N6.51 trillion, representing 73 per cent of the agency’s total assets, has been invested in Federal Government securities issued to finance various projects.Of the sum, N95.3 billion went for infrastructure while N7.19 billion was committed to the N10.67 billion Green Bond of the government. Speaking at the launch of the Micro Pension Plan (MPP) yesterday in Abuja, she...

March 29, 2019
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29Mar

Is Pension Reform on the Ballot in Argentina’s Election?

With the fastest-aging populations in the world, Latin American countries are under the gun to overhaul pension systems. Argentina is no different. President Mauricio Macri passed a reform in December 2017, which was met with protests, along with a number of legal hurdles that have kept the legislation from bearing fruit. The latest came on March 26, 2019, when Argentina’s Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to tax pensioners. The administration has been mute on the issue, avoiding an...

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29Mar

Why ageing China won’t overtake the US economy as the world’s biggest – now or in the future

In 2010, China replaced Japan as the world's second-largest economy. Many economists believe it is just a matter of time before China dethrones the United States as the world’s biggest economy – some have argued that it could happen before 2030. They have cited the history of other Asian economies as evidence to back the claim. The nominal per capita gross domestic product of China was just a sixth of America’s in 2018 – a level similar to...

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29Mar

Lessons From the UK’s Retirement Plan Auto Enrollment Requirement

The United Kingdom has recently completed a nationwide phased rollout of a requirement that employers automatically enroll employees into a retirement plan, with the ability to opt out, and researchers from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College say the results provide lessons for the United States. Following the UK’s initiative, participation rates have jumped to around 90% at medium and large employers (those with 58 or more workers), 74% at employers with 50 to 57 employees, 67%...

March 29, 2019
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28Mar

España. Una reforma para hacer sostenibles las pensiones que no puede esperar

Los últimos y preocupantes datos sobre el gasto que España destina a pensiones revela que la cuantía media mensual de las nuevas prestaciones de jubilación a 1 de marzo ha aumentado un 11% respecto al mismo mes del año anterior. Aunque buena parte de ese incremento se explica por una circuntancia coyuntural, la jubilación anticipada y anómala de un colectivo de 3.000 policías municipales, ese repunte se une a las últimas subidas adoptadas desde el pasado mes de agosto,...

March 28, 2019
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28Mar

Brasil. Ministro Guedes insta a aprobar reforma de pensiones en Brasil

El ministro de Economía brasileño, Paulo Guedes, advirtió hoy en audiencia en la Comisión de Asuntos Económicos del Senado que la "bola" de la reforma de pensiones "está con el Congreso", y que si no es aprobada "condenaremos a nuestros hijos y nietos". La declaración de Guedes está en línea con lo dicho el pasado fin de semana por el presidente Jair Bolsonaro, quien afirmó que la responsabilidad por la reforma ha pasado a ser del Congreso tras la...

March 28, 2019
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28Mar

US. State Pensions Plans Are In Bad Shape But Reforms Can Help

It’s no secret that state public pension systems across the country are in bad shape. A failure to make required contributions coupled with unrealistic assumptions about investment returns has left many systems severely underfunded. A new report from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) examines state pension systems from a variety of angles and finds that the view is always the same—looking over a cliff. Any analysis of state pension systems needs to clearly establish a baseline. The ALEC...

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28Mar

How 75,000 people can get a 20pc pension boost by waiting just two weeks

Changes to income tax take effect in two weeks – and with some smart use of pension pots you can save thousands of pounds in tax. The trick is to delay usual payments – using the flexibilities afforded by the pension freedom reforms – until 6 April. Both the personal allowance (the amount you can earn before paying any tax) and the level that higher-rate (40pc) tax kicks in are increasing for the 2019-20 tax year. That means earnings...

March 28, 2019
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