El sexto retiro de las AFP, es un tema que se encuentra en el centro de la opinión pública en Chile, debido a que más de uno se encuentra interesado en contar con el dinero de sus ahorros para diferentes fines. En esta nota te contaremos qué es lo que se sabe hasta el momento sobre esta polémica medida que se encuentra en el medio del debate dentro de la Cámara de Diputados. Actualización del retiro de AFP: Finalmente se cerró...
State and municipal pension funds will likely miss their investment targets this year and will probably not see meaningful improvements in their unfunded liabilities or funding ratios, according to Equable Institute's "State of Pensions 2023" report released on Tuesday. Unfunded liabilities climbed to $1.57 trillion in 2022, bringing the national aggregate funding ratio to 75.4% due to negative investment returns, Equable said in a release issued in conjunction with the report. Equable now projects that the aggregate funding ratio for U.S....
From a hefty fine on a bookshop for selling a novel on which a hit Netflix series is based, to curbing the pension rights of transgender women, Hungary is toughening measures against the LGBTQ community, long a target of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Meanwhile, a new government amendment is seeking to exclude transgender women from pension rules that allow women to retire earlier than men. "It is inconceivable that those who suddenly identify as women after 39 years of working as...
«I can’t wait to retire!..» How many times, and how many people, have they thought about saying “goodbye” to work, daily routine, stress and fatigue? If the moment of leaving the labor market is seen as a real liberation, in Italy there are those who think that it could become a far worse condemnation than meetings, phone calls, computers and shifts. Because on closer inspection the majority of men and women “in career” believe that they do not have,...
Shaun O’Brien, the chair of the ERISA Advisory Council, summarized many of the trends in the pension risk transfer market and commonly expressed concerns from pension fiduciaries and stakeholders at a hearing the council hosted Tuesday at the Department of Labor. The hearing was held to discuss possible changes to Interpretative Bulletin 95-1, which requires that pension fiduciaries select the safest annuity providers when executing pension risk transfers. Considering modifications to IB 95-1 was required by Section 321 of the...
Al cierre del primer semestre de 2023, las utilidades de las Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Afores) repuntaron 254.9% respecto al año pasado, cuando la reducción en las comisiones impactó sus resultados. Las cifras de la Comisión Nacional del Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar) muestran que las ganancias de las 10 afores existentes ascendieron a 5,005.6 millones de pesos. Si se compara con el mismo lapso de 2021, antes de que entrara en efecto el tope de comisiones fijado por...
Como una solución a la situación que enfrentan miles de madres que no reciben el pago de la pensión de alimentos de sus hijos por parte de sus exparejas, nació la Ley de Responsabilidad Parental y Pago Efectivo de Pensiones de Alimentos, que entró en vigencia el 20 de mayo. La normativa establece un mecanismo de pago, facultando a los Tribunales de Familia para que investiguen, bajo reserva, el patrimonio de los deudores de pensión de alimentos. Dentro de ese procedimiento,...
Al cierre de abril, 94 mil niños en México tenían una cuenta de Afore, lo que representa que alrededor de 0.2 por ciento de la población menor de edad en el país, de acuerdo con datos de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar). El Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR) tenía registradas hasta mayo 73 millones de cuentas de trabajadores, con 5.4 billones de pesos acumulados. Los activos administrados por las Afores se ubicaron en...
New York City's top pension official has urged Bank of America's (BAC.N) board to claw back pay from executives after the bank agreed to pay $250 million to settle regulatory claims that it double-charged customers and took other steps without authorization. Since the financial crisis of 2008, provisions to recover pay have been strengthened at top U.S. banks to limit risk-taking. Bank of America did not admit wrongdoing in its July 11 agreements with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...
The proportion of pension schemes seeking greater alignment or integration of sustainable investment beyond employer policies doubled from 20 per cent in 2021 to 40 per cent in 2022, analysis from Mercer has revealed. The group’s latest Responsible Investment Total Evaluation (Rite) report, which benchmarks around 1,000 schemes from across the defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) space, showed that schemes have made “significant improvements” in their sustainable investment credentials. In particular, the research found that 50 per cent of...
