December 2024
13Dec

Chile. Reforma previsional: Comisión de Trabajo del Senado aprobó PGU de 250.000 pesos

La Comisión de Trabajo y Previsión Social del Senado, que vota "ad referéndum" la reforma al sistema previsional, aprobó el miércoles el aumento de la Pensión Garantizada Universal (PGU) a 250.000 pesos, desde los 214.296 actuales, en línea con el compromiso del Presidente Gabriel Boric. La instancia también aprobó una indicación respecto del cobro de las comisiones indirectas. Esta modificación dice relación con que el Régimen de Inversión del sistema de pensiones pueda definir la metodología para exceptuar la inversión indirecta en empresas de menor tamaño, efectuada a través...

December 13, 2024
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13Dec

UK. DC retirement expectations fall for young savers amid ‘flat’ investment returns

The expected future living standard in retirement provided by defined contribution (DC) savings fell for young savers in Q3, following "flat" investment returns, Aon’s UK DC pension tracker has revealed. The youngest saver’s expected income in retirement decreased by around £170 p.a. (0.5 per cent), driven by the increase in expected inflation and a decrease in the expected future investment return assumptions post-retirement. An increase in future expected return assumptions before retirement partially offset these decreases. However, older savers’ expected retirement...

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13Dec

China Expands Private Pensions Nationwide Despite Challenges

China is expanding its private pension fund pilot program nationwide to address retirement payout strains. The limitations of the experiment are already on display. Disappointing fund performance and a lack of investor interest are just some of the difficulties that private pension funds have encountered after China rolled out the program in 36 cities since 2022. The program allows workers to contribute as much as 12,000 yuan ($1,650) to tax-sheltered accounts similar to Individual Retirement Accounts in the US. It was...

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13Dec

A Checklist for Retiring in 2025

Only you can know if you're ready for a checklist for retiring in 2025. If you’re 60 or getting there, retirement is no longer a hazy concept in the distance. It’s a real deadline. In five or six years, or maybe just a year. Or six months. Or even six weeks. You are going to leave your full-time job, not for a new phase in a working career, but for a largely unknown future. Ideally, you’ve prepared financially and otherwise...

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12Dec

México. Acumulan AFORES más de 630 mdp en plusvalías en México

La Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar) informó en su Tercer Informe Trimestral 2024 que las plusvalías acumuladas al cierre de septiembre de 2024, fueron equivalentes a 630 mil 655 millones de pesos, una cifra histórica para el Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR). La rentabilidad nominal a un año se encuentra en 18.70 por ciento y en términos reales en 13.38 por ciento. Mientras que los rendimientos nominales históricos son de 10.58 por ciento en promedio anual y 4.84 por ciento en términos reales. Agrega que, en este sentido,...

December 12, 2024
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12Dec

Colombia. Hacia un sistema de pensiones más sólido

Esta semana, la Ocde publicó dos informes clave sobre los sistemas de retiro que nos permiten entender hacia dónde se están moviendo los países para tener modelos de pensiones más inclusivos y sostenibles. Estos análisis llegan en un momento crucial para Colombia, porque estamos implementando la recién aprobada reforma pensional, que trae varios retos, algunos de ellos similares a los que se viven en otros países de la Ocde, y otros propios de nuestra sociedad. Como bien lo dijo Mathias...

December 12, 2024
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12Dec

Panamá. Reformas, propuestas, fiscalidad y desconfianza

El subsistema exclusivamente de beneficio definido (SEBF), dentro del sistema de Invalidez, Vejez y Muerte (IVM), está quebrado. Por lo tanto, el proyecto de ley pretende unir los dos subsistemas: el quebrado y el no quebrado (mixto o de cuentas individuales) para darle más tiempo a las pensiones (no sé cuánto). Una vez unidos, entra el todopoderoso Dino Mon para colocar los fondos a su discreción, en las entidades financieras que mejor rendimiento otorguen, y de esta manera se...

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12Dec

How climate change will impact pension fund investment portfolios

Failure to transition to a low-carbon economy could cost pension schemes up to 30% in investment losses by 2050, according to new research. Analytics and risk management firm Ortec Finance analysed the investment portfolios of 30 large UK pension schemes based on exposure to climate change risks. It modelled seven different scenarios for the global transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources, and found that real estate and listed equities were the most vulnerable asset classes if any...

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12Dec

November Sees Another Gain in Corporate Pension Funded Status

The funded ratios of defined benefit corporate pension plans in the U.S. rose in November, with strong market returns offsetting a drop in discount rates, according to tracking by some of the country’s largest pension consultancies. Milliman Inc., which tracks 100 of the largest corporate pension plans through its monthly index, reported that funded ratios rose to 103.5% as of November 30, outdoing the end of October’s 103.2%. The average market gains of 1.88% lifted the value of the plan assets Milliman tracks...

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Just 19% of UK savers have factored getting a serious illness in to their retirement plan

Just a fifth of UK savers (19%) have fully considered getting a serious illness in their retirement plan, according to research by consultancy Barnett Waddingham. Its At retirement reckoning report, which surveyed more than 5,000 UK employees, also found that 25% of respondents under the age of 50 have prepared for this possibility, compared to just 16% of those aged over 50. Two-fifths (43%) of this older age group have thought about it but not included it in their retirement planning, and 32%...

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