September 2018

24Sep

México. Elevar edad de retiro, insuficiente para resolver problema en pensiones

Expertos consideran que además se debe pensar en un programa de apoyo al trabajo de adultos mayores. Si bien es positivo y justificable que se incremente la edad de retiro como evaluará hacerlo el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, expertos en pensiones consideran que primero se debe arreglar la fragmentación en la que se encuentra el sistema, pues es ine- quitativo y algunos esquemas son insostenibles. “La edad de retiro se debe ir ajustando conforme crezca la esperanza de vida....

September 24, 2018
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24Sep

Chile. Gobierno prepara cambios a licitación de nuevos afiliados a AFP: se adjudicará por 3 años y comisión no será el factor principal

Superintendencia de Pensiones trabaja en los aspectos técnicos del proyecto de ley. El Ejecutivo espera presentar las modificaciones dentro de la reforma al sistema previsional, o en una fecha posterior muy cercana. En tanto, sin ninguna AFP que se lleve a los nuevos cotizantes, la competencia se ha vuelto feroz. Sin oferentes. Así terminó el último proceso de licitación de nuevos afiliados de la Superintendencia de Pensiones. Como nadie propuso administrar a los nuevos integrantes del sistema previsional por menos...

September 24, 2018
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24Sep

UK. Small firms exposed to pension fund risks, warns Goldman Sachs

The funding positions of company pension pots improved last year but smaller firms are not managing their risk exposures well, according to Goldman Sachs. The US investment bank’s annual survey of FTSE 350 pension schemes found many were “in the best position they have been in for a long time” after funding levels improved. However, it cautioned smaller schemes demonstrated more volatile funding outcomes due to “a less robust” approach to risk management. Goldman Sachs found the very smallest schemes were...

September 24, 2018
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24Sep

Russia: 3.000 demonstrators in Moscow against the reform of retirement pensions

Three thousand or so people marched Saturday in Moscow against the unpopular project of the government to increase the age of retirement, which causes a slingshot unusual in Russia. Parade participants on a large avenue in the centre of the Russian capital, waving placards bearing the image of members of the ruling party, United Russia, of which Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, accompanied by slogans such as “Enemy of the people” or “Shame”. “About 3,000 people have taken part” in the protest,...

September 24, 2018
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24Sep

APG’s sustainable investments grow €2.2bn

Dutch pension provider APG has seen its investments in sustainable real estate and infrastructure grow €1.3bn and €900m in one year. According to APG, which manages €482bn in pension assets, the growth is proof sustainable investments yield long-term returns with the sustainable real estate portfolio grew to €21.7bn and infrastructure to €2.3bn. This also contributes to the objectives of pension scheme APB, APG’s largest client, who invested €58bn in business that helps meet United Nation’s sustainable development goals by 2020. APG uses...

September 24, 2018
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24Sep

Ageing population ‘will push up prices’, warns Deutsche Bank

Rising prices could be here to stay as the ageing population across much of the world pushes them up, analysts at Deutsche Bank have warned. A shrinking working-age population combined with demand from pensioners risks pushing up the cost of production, setting the scene for decades of pressure on living standards. Governments are likely to succumb to the temptation to inflate away debts, as that smaller workforce will otherwise struggle to pay off the mountains of borrowing being built up now. “While...

September 24, 2018
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21Sep

Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice)

By Elana D. Buch The troubling dynamic of the American home care industry where increased independence for the elderly conflicts with the well being of caregivers Paid home care is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States, and millions of Americans rely on these workers to help them remain at home as they grow older. However, the industry is rife with contradictions. The United States spends a fortune on medical care, yet devotes comparatively few resources on improving...

September 21, 2018
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21Sep

The Cost-Benefit Revolution

By Robert Walmsley University Professor Cass R Sunstein Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes. Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some people are alarmed about climate change and favor aggressive government intervention. Others don't...

September 21, 2018
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21Sep

Financial Literacy: Liberalism, Decision-Making and Social Welfare

By Gordon L. Clark (Oxford University - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment) Financial literacy is a program for enhancing individuals’ decision-making and an assumption made about the sovereignty of the individual. In its most optimistic form, financial literacy would empower individuals to achieve their financial goals and objectives. It would do so by providing individuals the concepts for effective decision-making in a world subject to financial risk and uncertainty. The logic underpinning this vision is explained arguing that...

September 21, 2018
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21Sep

Endowment Effects and Usage of Financial Products: Field Evidence from Malawi

By Xavier Giné (World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)), Jessica Goldberg (University of Maryland, Department of Economics) When offered a choice between two savings accounts, prior account holders are significantly less likely to switch to a cheaper account, compared with new subjects without a prior account. While 49 percent of account holders retained their original, expensive accounts, none of the new subjects who opened an account chose the expensive one. This finding is consistent with the "endowment effect." Exploiting...

September 21, 2018
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