January 2019

16Jan

Benefits rule changes could cost pensioners in UK thousands a year

Thousands of poorer UK pensioners who have partners of working age could lose up to £7,000 a year in top-ups as a result of imminent rule changes that will require them to claim universal credit as a couple.Changes slipped out on Monday night by the Department for Work and Pensions mean that from 15 May, new pensioners whose partners are younger than the state retirement age of 65 can no longer claim a means-tested top-up called pension credit.Instead they will be...

January 16, 2019
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16Jan

Canada: 2019 Brings New Rules For Federally Regulated Employers

In 2018, provincially regulated employers saw significant changes to provincial employment standards legislation such as found in Bill 17 (Alberta), Bill 176 (Quebec). and Bill 148 (Ontario). Not to be outdone, Parliament has introduced a massive piece of omnibus legislation in Bill C-86 (the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2) which received royal assent last month. Buried within Bill C-86's changes to tax, customs, banking and pension legislation are significant modifications to the Canada Labour Code and the creation...

January 16, 2019
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16Jan

How Retirement Changes Your Identity

Teresa Amabile, professor at Harvard Business School, is approaching her own retirement by researching how ending your work career affects your sense of self. She says important psychological shifts take place leading up to, and during, retirement. That holds especially true for workers who identify strongly with their job and organization. Amabile and her fellow researchers have identified two main processes that retirees go through: life restructuring and identity bridging. Health and wealth. Those two things are foremost in...

January 16, 2019
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15Jan

México. Bernardo González será el nuevo presidente de Amafore

Bernardo González Rosas asumirá el cargo de presidente Ejecutivo de la Asociación Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Amafore), en sustitución de Carlos Noriega Curtis, quien dejó dicha posición en diciembre pasado. Como representante de las 10 Afores que operan en el mercado mexicano, las prioridades de Gonzalez Rosas, expresidente de la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV), serán fortalecer el Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro y ampliar el conocimiento que los mexicanos tienen en...

January 15, 2019
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15Jan

España. El Gobierno prevé sacar casi 3.700 millones de la ‘hucha de las pensiones’ y dejarla con 1.350 millones en 2019

El Ejecutivo prevé tener que sacar de nuevo este año dinero del Fondo de Reserva de las pensiones, la llamada 'hucha de las pensiones', para afrontar el pago de las nóminas de los pensionistas este 2019. El importe que ha presupuestado es de 3.693 millones de euros. Es una de las medidas aprobadas por el Gobierno para mantener el abono de las pensiones pese al déficit del sistema de la Seguridad Social, de 18.650 millones de euros. El Fondo de...

January 15, 2019
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15Jan

México. Moody’s: nuevas medidas favorecen al sistema de pensiones

Las medidas anunciadas por el gobierno, el pasado 8 de enero, para fortalecer al sistema financiero, son positivas para todo el sector de pensiones y las administradoras de fondos de recursos para el retiro (Afores) más grandes que ya han logrado una mayor diversificación de cartera serán las primeras en aprovechar estas nuevas directrices, consideró la firma internacional calificadora de valores Moody's. Las nuevas medidas incluyen incentivos fiscales para ofertas públicas iniciales (OPI), más flexibilidad para las inversiones de...

January 15, 2019
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15Jan

Perú. Rentabilidad en la AFP: ¿A corto plazo o largo plazo?

El incremento de tu fondo dependerá del tipo de fondo en el que te encuentras afiliado y de la situación y coyuntura económica nacional e internacional. ¿Conviene esperar? Cuando nos afiliamos a una AFP, uno de los primeros pasos es elegir el fondo en el que comenzaremos a invertir nuestros ahorros previsionales. En cada fondo se genera una rentabilidad, que es la ganancia obtenida de las inversiones que tu AFP realiza con el dinero aportado; además, estas inversiones son supervisadas...

January 15, 2019
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15Jan

US. Why The Senior Migration Trend Should Drive Better Discussions Of Longevity

I’m alarmed by the increasing interest in what I’ll call forced senior migration: that is, American seniors who move abroad in order to ensure they can live less expensively, hoping to prolong their retirement nest eggs. Writer Max Holleran Hayes recently captured this phenomenon in a thought-provoking rumination in The New Republic on Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration Under Late Capitalism, a new book by Matthew Hayes. Essentially, he noted that many current social, political and economic policies are driving a reverse...

January 15, 2019
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15Jan

South Africa . ANC still eyeing pension assets

The ANC is once again eyeing the notion of prescribed assets, where money managers will be forced to invest a portion of their funds in state-mandated areas and/or companies. In its 2019 Election Manifesto, the party says it will “Investigate the introduction of prescribed assets on financial institutions’ funds to mobilise funds within a regulatory framework for socially productive investments (including housing, infrastructure for social and economic development and township and village economy) and job creation while considering the...

January 15, 2019
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15Jan

Shell and pension fund PGGM to bid for last Dutch public energy firm

Oil giant Shell and Dutch health service pension fund PGGM are working on a joint bid for energy provider Eneco, the AD said on Monday afternoon. Both companies have pledged to retain Eneco’s green reputation and to broaden its operations in Europe. Eneco, the last Dutch energy firm in public hands, is due to sold via a controlled auction later this year. ‘Our expertise and our financial weight will allow us to expand the company’s position in both...

January 15, 2019
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