January 2025
23Jan

Este es el plan de México para afrontar las deportaciones anunciadas por Trump

El plan de México para acoger a miles de sus ciudadanos deportados de Estados Unidos es poco menos que ambicioso. Se está planeando construir nueve centros de recepción a lo largo de la frontera —enormes tiendas de campaña instaladas en estacionamientos, estadios y almacenes— con cocinas móviles operadas por las fuerzas armadas. Los detalles de la iniciativa —denominada “México te abraza”— no se revelaron hasta esta semana, aunque las autoridades mexicanas dijeron que la habían estado ideando durante los últimos...

January 23, 2025
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23Jan

US. Pension funds push once again for private equity transparency

Pension funds and other institutional investors are pressing private-equity firms to provide more standardized reporting on fees and investment performance, reflecting long-standing frustration over inconsistent and opaque disclosures. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Institutional Limited Partners Association, a trade group representing pension plans such as the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, recently proposed new guidelines aimed at improving transparency in the private-equity sector. According to the Journal, those guidelines...

January 23, 2025
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23Jan

Inside the Plan to Receive Thousands of Mexicans Deported From the U.S.

Mexico’s plan to receive thousands of its deported citizens from the United States is nothing short of ambitious. Plans are underway to build nine reception centers along the border — massive tents set up in parking lots, stadiums and warehouses — with mobile kitchens operated by the armed forces. Details of the initiative — called “Mexico Embraces You” — were revealed only this week, although Mexican officials said they had been devising it for the past few months, ever since...

January 23, 2025
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23Jan

European investors upbeat on impact investing, despite US concerns

Over 90% of European investors polled in the run up to the 21 January of US president Donald Trump said they were extremely or somewhat concerned over the state of ESG and sustainability practices in the US, but they still intend to either maintain or increase their impact allocations, a survey by Pensions for Purpose shows. Pensions for Purpose, a UK-based industry body, says the results are significant because, although European and US investors often follow distinct paths on sustainability...

January 23, 2025
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23Jan

China moves to boost languishing markets by ordering funds to invest more in shares

The Chinese government is trying to encourage people to spend more by ensuring that share prices will rise, ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stocks to help jolt its languid markets out of the doldrums. Officials told reporters in Beijing on Thursday that beginning this year mutual funds should increase holdings of onshore stocks, called A-shares, by at least 10% a year over the next three years. Commercial insurance funds will have to put 30% of their...

January 23, 2025
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22Jan

México. Retiros por desempleo de las Afores no se detiene, ¿qué está pasando?

Los retiros parciales por desempleo de las Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (afores) alcanzaron un monto récord en 2024, a pesar del proceso de validación que implementó la Consar para reducirlos. Los retiros por desempleo de las afores totalizaron en 30,727 millones de pesos, 12.7% más que en 2023. De acuerdo con la autoridad, el aumento en los retiros durante el año pasado, respondió a un fraude liderado por asesores previsionales de las afores, los cuales, a cambio de una comisión, dan...

January 22, 2025
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22Jan

68% cree que el Congreso debería aprobar la reforma de pensiones tras el acuerdo alcanzado entre el Gobierno y Chile Vamos

En relación a aspectos específicos de la reforma, 86% está de acuerdo con aumentar la PGU a 250 mil pesos; 70% con que lo cambien a una AFP que cobre una comisión menor manteniendo la libertad de elegir en cualquier momento otra, 61% con aumentar en 7% las cotizaciones a cargo del empleador, 61% con que 0,5% vaya a un fondo de reparto que compense la diferencia de jubilación entre hombres y mujeres y 61% con el préstamo de...

January 22, 2025
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22Jan

México. Habrá plusvalías en 2025, pero menores: ¿qué esperar de tu Afore?

El presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Amafore), Guillermo Zamarripa, pronosticó que 2025 también será un año de plusvalías para los trabajadores mexicanos, sin embargo, consideró que no alzarán a las registradas el año pasado debido a la volatilidad que generarán los riesgos geopolíticos. Durante 2024, las Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Afores) registraron plusvalías por 556,758 millones de pesos, el mejor rendimiento para un solo año. De acuerdo con el dirigente este desempeño respondió tanto...

January 22, 2025
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22Jan

China Plunges Deeper Into Unprecedented Population Crisis

China's population contracted for the third year in a row in 2024 despite an uptick in births. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with a request for comment. Why It Matters Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party government has been rolling out measure after measure in hopes of encouraging young Chinese to have more children. Births have overall been on the decline despite the end of the decades-long one-child policy in 2016, leaving policymakers anxious over the impact this will...

January 22, 2025
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22Jan

One in five pension funds lacks liquidity, survey shows

One in five pension funds (18%) admit they lack sufficient liquidity to withstand adverse scenarios, while 62% acknowledge that liquidity could become problematic in extreme cases, according to a survey by pension funds solution provider Ortec Finance. The survey, which polled senior executives managing $1.451 trillion in assets across the UK, US, the Netherlands, Canada, and the Nordics, revealed that just 20% of funds are confident in their liquidity positions. Long-term liquidity risks emerged as the primary concern for 60%...

January 22, 2025
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