November 2024
25Nov

UK. Aviva completes a £1.7 billion buy-in with the National Grid Electricity Group of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme

Aviva has today announced the completion of a £1.7 billion pensioner buy-in with the National Grid Electricity Group (“the Group”) of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (“the Scheme”). The transaction, which completed in October 2024, included transitioning the Group’s existing longevity swap with Zurich Assurance Ltd to Aviva, and insures the benefits for 5,800 pensioner members of the Group. Aon acted as the sole transaction adviser, covering actuarial, investment and broking aspects. Legal advice to the Group Trustee was provided by...

November 25, 2024
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25Nov

India. 80,000 more people to get old-age pension in Delhi: Kejriwal

AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said an additional 80,000 people are now eligible for old-age pension in Delhi, raising the total number of such beneficiaries to 5.3 lakh. Kejriwal said at a press conference that the Delhi government is committed to social welfare and highlighted that the decision to pay old-age pension to more people is being implemented following Cabinet approval on Sunday. On Sunday, the Delhi government launched a portal for the elderly to apply for pensions. It has...

November 25, 2024
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25Nov

Pensions reform is vital to raise the UK’s dismal savings rate

No area of policymaking suffers more from “muddling through” than pensions. Pension arrangements shape national prosperity and individual security over multiple generations. “Long-termism” is the only sane approach. Yet what the UK has done is, alas, the opposite. As I noted in a column published in June 2023, this short-sightedness ended up by putting people working in the private sector into one of two “corners”. In one corner are defined benefit schemes, which offer guaranteed pensions, with investment and longevity...

November 25, 2024
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22Nov

México. Golpe a las pensiones en 2025 por cambio de salario mínimo a UMAS

Hasta 2016, el salario mínimo en México no cumplía plenamente con la función social establecida en el artículo 123 de la Constitución, que exige que esta remuneración sea suficiente para satisfacer las necesidades básicas de un jefe de familia, incluyendo aspectos materiales, sociales y culturales. Entonces, como se ha venido dando en los últimos años, el aumento de las pensiones ya existentes en 2025 no crecerá al ritmo del salario mínimo, sino de la UMA. Esto afecta a los...

November 22, 2024
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22Nov

El papa pide “medidas urgentes” y “sacrificios” para sostener las pensiones del Vaticano

El papa Francisco alertó este jueves de que se necesitan "medidas estructurales urgentes" y "sacrificios" para sostener el fondo de pensiones de los empleados del Vaticano, "en riesgo de empeorar" ante "los recursos limitados" de la Santa Sede. Los datos recabados en "los últimos análisis en profundidad hechos por expertos independientes indican un grave desequilibrio potencial del fondo, cuyo tamaño tiende a expandirse con el tiempo en ausencia de intervenciones", dijo el pontífice en una carta dirigida a los cardenales y responsables de...

November 22, 2024
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22Nov

US. Public pension funding ratios drop in October, first dip since April — Milliman

The overall estimated funding ratio of the 100 largest U.S. public pension plans fell in October, the first such decline since April, according to the Milliman 100 Public Pension Funding index. The drop in the funding ratio to 81.2% as of Oct. 31 from the estimate of 82.8% as of Sept. 30 was primarily the result of negative investment returns. It was the first decline after five straight months of increases due to strong market returns. Before that streak had begin,...

November 22, 2024
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22Nov

Cardinal appointed for ‘urgent’ Vatican pensions overhaul

Pope Francis said he had taken an “essential step” by naming Cardinal Kevin Farrell “sole administrator” of the pension fund. Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Kevin Farrell to oversee “new and unavoidable” reform to the Vatican’s pension system as it faces a “serious prospective imbalance” that means changes can no longer be postponed. In a letter to cardinals, dicastery prefects, and managers in the Roman Curia on 21 November, the Pope emphasised the gravity of the unsustainability of the Vatican’s pension fund...

November 22, 2024
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22Nov

Australia. Why some people deserve an age pension before others: new research

However, the ageing population presents long-term fiscal challenges to the sustainability of social welfare systems of advanced economies such as Australia and especially the cost of providing age pensions. The Australian government’s Intergenerational Report 2023 suggests the number of people aged 65 and over will more than double over the next 40 years. But economic growth is forecast to be slower than the previous four decades because of lower population growth and reduced workforce participation due to ageing. In response, the federal government...

November 22, 2024
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21Nov

México. El reto de las Afores: motivar a los mexicanos a ahorrar más para su retiro

El principal reto de las Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (afores) es hacer que los trabajadores se involucren con sus cuentas de ahorro, y lograr que la población realice aportaciones a este fondo, pues actualmente el ahorro voluntario representa 3.5% del saldo que administran las afores. “Los datos son claros, el ahorro voluntario le falta, entonces uno de los pendientes que tenemos es cómo mejorar el ahorro voluntario”, reconoció Guillermo Zamarripa, presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Afores (Amafore). El directivo explicó...

November 21, 2024
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21Nov

Esto pasará con el dinero ahorrado en su fondo privado de pensión en Colombia tras la reforma: ¿Pasa a Colpensiones?

La reforma que aplica desde el año entrante impone que el fondo privado de pensión en Colombia que usa un cotizante cambie sustancialmente y reciba solamente a las personas que reciben un salario por encima de los 2,3 salarios mínimo al mes. De acuerdo con la iniciativa, este nuevo mecanismo pretende eliminar la competencia que tenían, hasta ahora, Colpensiones y los privados. Es decir, todos los cotizantes van a quedar con una parte de su salario (hasta unos $3 millones con...

November 21, 2024
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