December 2018

10Dec

The Future of Ageing in Europe: Making an Asset of Longevity

By Alan Walker This book provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the challenges created by Europe’s ageing population. Grounded in state-of-the-art scientific assessments by leading European researchers, the book is strongly policy focused. Indeed this book contains a detailed account of the policies required across a broad field, from economic sustainability and extending working lives, to healthy ageing, technological innovation, long term care and political citizenship, for the successful adaptation to the challenges of ageing in Europe and globally....

December 10, 2018
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10Dec

The Vulnerability of Older Australians in Bankruptcy: Insights from an Empirical Study

By Lev Bromberg (The University of Melbourne), Ian Ramsay (Melbourne Law School - University of Melbourne), Paul Ali (University of Melbourne - Law School; Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR)) This article presents the results of the first empirical study focused on older Australians in bankruptcy. Our study — based on the examination of a large and unique dataset obtained by the authors from the bankruptcy regulator — provides a valuable insight into the severe financial challenges faced by...

December 10, 2018
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10Dec

Human Movement Across Border: Key Ingredient Behind Thai Economy and the Future

By Akadet Chaichanavichakit (Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies) Over the past 50 years, immigration has become a strong force throughout the world. Economic opportunity is among one of the most important factors expediting migrant’s decision to move. The destination countries, which in general have relatively higher level of economic development, usually share the same characteristics of intense labor demands, aging population, and declining birth rate. Therefore, migrant workers have become an important, or even integral, part to...

December 10, 2018
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07Dec

México. Recomiendan calma ante caída en Afores

Ante el segundo mes consecutivo de minusvalías en los recursos de las Afore, especialistas recomiendan a los trabajadores a mantener la calma y no cambiarse de administradora para no hacer efectiva la pérdida. "La principal recomendación es que no se cambien de Afore. Es importante que no lo hagan para que la minusvalía no se convierta en pérdida. Han sido dos meses complicados para las Afores por el tema del aeropuerto y la guerra comercial entre Estados Unidos y China,...

December 7, 2018
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07Dec

Perú. AFP: Fondos de pensiones pierden más de 8 mil millones de soles

Plantan que exista un observatorio para monitorear la gestión de los fondos de las AFP. Entre el 5 de enero al 23 de noviembre de este año, lo fondos de pensiones que administran las AFP suman pérdidas de más de 8 mil millones de soles, alertó la Asociación Peruana de Consumidores y Usuarios (Aspec). Para Crisólogo Cáceres, presidente de Aspec, las pérdidas se originan por las malas inversiones que hacen las AFP lo cual sólo perjudican a los afiliados. "Las AFP siguen...

December 7, 2018
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07Dec

Bolsonaro abre la puerta a una reforma de las pensiones en Brasil

El presidente electo de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, afirmó que la reforma del sistema de las pensiones puede ser presentada por partes y que el primer asunto que llevaría al Congreso sería el establecimiento de una edad mínima. “No adelanta nada tener una propuesta ideal que va a quedarse en Diputados o en el Senado. La idea es comenzar por la edad, atacar los privilegios y avanzar en esa pauta”, declaró Bolsonaro. Leer más @El día

December 7, 2018
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07Dec

Why Retirement Is Broken And Needs To Be Reinvented

Retirement is the #1 financial worry with 65% of Americans worried about it and a majority thinking about it 4 times per week. The core problem is uncertainty - people have no idea how much they need, because we have created a system around building assets instead of income. We spend our lives saving up a big pile of money in an effort to secure our future against a bewildering set of future risks including market returns, inflation, healthcare and...

December 7, 2018
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07Dec

Brits living in the EU risk having their pensions frozen

Britons living in the EU, who qualify for a state pensions uprate, could lose the guarantee after disorderly Brexit. The British government has today outlined the ways how it intends to protect rights of its citizens living in the EU in the case of “no-deal Brexit.” As one of the protections, the Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay pledged to keep uprating state pensions of UK nationals living in the EU – but only if the EU reciprocates. If the EU as a bloc...

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07Dec

Canadian taxpayers subsidize government pensions to the tune of $22 billion a year

Government employees don’t pay the full cost of their defined-benefit pensions. Taxpayers provide a $22 billion annual subsidy by assuming undisclosed investment risks for which they are not compensated, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “The issue is not whether government employees should have defined-benefit pensions, but rather how much they should pay for these pensions,” said Philip Cross, Fraser Institute senior fellow and co-author of Risk and Reward...

December 7, 2018
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07Dec

UK. Devilish details of where pension transfers went wrong

The failure of senior management at advice firms to identify the risks associated with defined benefit transfers, was named as one of the reasons behind widespread problems in the field. The Financial Conduct Authority published the findings of its recent investigation of pension transfer advice today (December 6), saying less than 50 per cent of the advice it had reviewed was deemed suitable. The regulator had looked at 18 firms, which had given advice to 48,248 clients on their defined benefit...

December 7, 2018
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