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05OctOctober 5, 2018

Counting the Oil Money and the Elderly: Norway's Public Sector Balance Sheet

By Ezequiel Cabezon (University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill), Christian Henn (International Monetary Fund) Based on a permanent income analysis, Gagnon (2018) has prominently suggested that Norwayhas saved too much, thereby free-riding on the rest of the world for demand. Our public sectorbalance sheet analysis comes to the opposite conclusion, chiefly because it also accounts forfuture aging costs. Unsurprisingly, we find that Norway's current assets exceed its liabilities bysome 340 percent of mainland GDP. But its nonoil fiscal...

October 5, 2018

Aging, Articles, Labor Market, RegulationFunding, Norway 2018, Public Policy

05OctOctober 5, 2018

Counting the Oil Money and the Elderly: Norway’s Public Sector Balance Sheet

By Ezequiel Cabezon (University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill), Christian Henn (International Monetary Fund) Based on a permanent income analysis, Gagnon (2018) has prominently suggested that Norwayhas saved too much, thereby free-riding on the rest of the world for demand. Our public sectorbalance sheet analysis comes to the opposite conclusion, chiefly because it also accounts forfuture aging costs. Unsurprisingly, we find that Norway's current assets exceed its liabilities bysome 340 percent of mainland GDP. But its nonoil fiscal...

October 5, 2018

Aging, Articles, Labor Market, RegulationFunding, Norway 2018, Public Policy

05OctOctober 5, 2018

Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape

By Shanthi Divakaran (World Bank), Patrick McGinnis (World Bank), Sam Schneider (Independent) This paper discusses the landscape for private equity and venture capital financing in Kenya. It provides an overview of the private equity and venture capital market in the country, describing key players, including funds, fund managers, investors, and public sector entities. The paper provides an analysis of key market drivers and impediments, as well as legal/regulatory/taxation drivers and impediments that affect Kenya's private equity and venture capital industry. ...

October 5, 2018

Articles, Investing2018, Kenya, Regulation, Risk

05OctOctober 5, 2018

Life Quality and Health Costs in Late Retirement

By Yuanshan Cheng (Winthrop University), Philip Gibson (Winthrop University), Tao Guo (William Paterson University) Individuals are living longer due to the advancement of medical technology and nutrition quality. Are the elderly enjoying retirement in those extended years with good quality of life, or, are they simply alive? Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS), this study contributes to the literature by presenting empirical evidence on how individuals spend time in...

October 5, 2018

Articles, Pension design, Savings, Slider-LeftIncome, Social Security

04OctOctober 4, 2018

Perú. SBS ve viable que límite a inversiones de AFP en el exterior suba hasta 80%

Hasta ahora aumento del límite para invertir en el exterior ha significado más rentabilidad y menor volatilidad para fondos de AFP. Mayor relajación de esos topes debe pasar por el Congreso. Una de las propuesta regulatorias para mejorar el desempeño de los fondos de pensiones que hoy “se cae de madura”, es seguir ampliando el límite que tienen las AFP para invertir en el exterior. Así lo señaló Jorge Mogrovejo, superintendente adjunto de AFP de la SBS, quien estimó que esa...

October 4, 2018

Noticias2018, Perú

04OctOctober 4, 2018

México. Da Congreso luz verde al gobierno estatal para pagar adeudo al ISSSTE

En sesión de la Comisión de Hacienda se desechó la petición para que se diera marcha atrás a esa autorización que ya había dado la legislatura anterior. La iniciativa para dejar sin efecto el pago programado de mil 295 millones de pesos, adeudados en el Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro, como uno de los componentes del pasivo educativo, quedó desechada al menos dentro de la comisión legislativa de Hacienda del Estado. Ese decreto había sido aprobado en sesión plenaria de...

October 4, 2018

Noticias2018, Mexico

04OctOctober 4, 2018

Perú. Sancionarán a funcionarios ediles y regionales que no aporten a AFP

Desde el próximo año la Contraloría General de la República sancionará hasta con la inhabilitación de por vida a los funcionares ediles y regiones que retengan el pago de AFP a sus trabajadores y no los abonen en las respectivas cuentas individuales, informó hoy la Asociación de AFP. “La Contraloría incorporará el próximo año como acción de fiscalización si los funcionarios cumplieron o no con el abono de los aportes previsionales”, manifestó la presidenta de la Asociación de Administradoras de...

October 4, 2018

Noticias2018, Perú

04OctOctober 4, 2018

Kazakhstan: Pension plans darken a grim picture

The government appears eager to shed an onerous and unrewarding responsibility: managing its citizens’ pensions. Authorities in Kazakhstan are set once again to tinker with how pension funds are managed. And if social media and news website comment boards are any indication, people are livid. Since 2013, pension contributions have been held in an entity called the Single Accumulated Savings Fund, or ENPF in its Russian initials. The fund comprises 10 million accounts worth a total of 9 trillion tenge ($25...

October 4, 2018

News, Slider2018, Kazakhstan

04OctOctober 4, 2018

Financial health of Canadian defined-benefit pension plans hits all-time quarterly high in Q3 2018

Rising bond yields and a continuing strong U.S. equity market helped boost the health of Canadian defined benefit pension plans to the highest level ever recorded, according to the latest quarterly Median Solvency Ratio from Aon, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Quotes: “Aon has been measuring median solvency for the better part of two decades now, and we have never seen quarterly levels this high,” said William da Silva, Senior...

October 4, 2018

News, Slider2018, Canada

04OctOctober 4, 2018

Why Americans Are Waiting Longer Before Retiring

We're finally seeing the effects of Social Security changes made in the 1980s. Something significant is happening in Social Security: People are retiring and taking their benefits later. These trends are at least in part the consequence of policy changes made in the early 1980s that were purposefully delayed in their implementation. Consider this: In 1997, 57 percent of men claiming their retirement benefits under Social Security were 62, the earliest age at which one can do so. By 2017, that...

October 4, 2018

News, Slider2018, US

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