November 2025
12Nov

The role of insurers helping create sustainable pension systems

Ensuring a sustainable income in retirement is an enduringly knotty problem and one that continues to preoccupy national pension systems and their asset manager partners the world over. At the Fiduciary Investors Symposium Oxford, panellists explored how different countries are innovating to ensure their pension systems’ sustainability. Like NEST, the UK’s biggest defined contribution (DC) master trust, which plans to enter the bulk annuity market as part of a new, post-retirement solution and is about to partner with an insurance...

November 12, 2025
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12Nov

Millennial Small Biz Owners Most Ready to Offer a Retirement Plan

There is a generational gap and gender divide among small business owners when it comes to retirement plan readiness and the perceived importance of offering a plan, according to a new survey. The Capital Group, in partnership with C&C Multicultural, conducted an online survey from April 4–30, 2025, among 1,000 U.S. small business owners (and full-time employees) to gather their views on their outlook and readiness to offer retirement benefits and what they believe are the most important aspects to...

November 12, 2025
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11Nov

México. Ahorro voluntario e invertir bien los recursos, retos estructurales para las Afores: Amafore

El ahorro voluntario e invertir bien los mayor recursos que les están llegando a las Afores, son los dos principales retos estructurales para el Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR) y las administradoras, consideró Guillermo Zamarripa, presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Afores (Amafore). Además, hay retos en cuanto a que las Afores mejoren su atención al cliente, compartió en entrevista previo al Encuentro Amafore 2025, que se realizará este 12 y 13 de noviembre. “Un reto que tenemos como...

November 11, 2025
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11Nov

Colombia. Rendimientos en fondos de pensiones aumentaron $53 billones en lo que va del año

Los fondos de pensiones obligatorias de los trabajadores, cuya administración está a cargo de Colfondos, Porvenir, Protección y Skandia, cerraron en septiembre con un total de $525 billones, monto que representa un incremento de $53 billones en rendimientos en lo corrido del año. “Este crecimiento refleja la gestión profesional de los fondos privados, y el buen comportamiento de los mercados financieros en un ciclo que, durante los últimos dos años, ha registrado condiciones favorables para la valorización de los portafolios”, señaló Andrés Velasco,...

November 11, 2025
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11Nov

Chile. Presentan oficio contra las AFP por presunto financiamiento ilegal de campañas políticas a través de empresa de Bernardo Fontaine

Durante esta jornada, el candidato a diputado Gonzalo Winter y la presidenta del Frente Amplio, Constanza Martínez llegaron hasta la Superintendencia de Pensiones para solicitar una fiscalización a la Asociación de AFP, tras la publicación de un reportaje que reveló presuntos aportes a fundaciones con fines políticos. “Venimos a presentar este oficio ante la Superintendencia de Pensiones por lo siguiente: el Decreto Ley 3.500 prohíbe explícitamente a las AFP involucrarse en política. Además, la ley regula con claridad la publicidad que estas pueden...

November 11, 2025
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11Nov

Colombia. Tensión entre la Corte Constitucional y Colpensiones por la reforma pensional: “No ha desacatado la decisión judicial”

La reforma pensional está viviendo un nuevo momento de tensión, después de que la administradora estatal colombiana de pensiones, Colpensiones, le respondiera a la Corte Constitucional que no ha desatendido ninguna decisión judicial en medio de este proceso que ha generado fuertes diferencias entre el Gobierno Petro y el magistrado Jorge Enrique Ibáñez Najar, presidente de ese alto tribunal. El magistrado Ibáñez Najar es el ponente de la demanda que puso la senadora Paloma Valencia contra esa iniciativa y hace...

November 11, 2025
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11Nov

Mexico. Retirement Savings Consolidate Their Weight in the Economy: They Now Amount to 22% of GDP

The AmAfore 2025 meeting will take place on November 12 and 13, and its program confirms the growing prominence of retirement savings in the global conversation on investments, private credit, and infrastructure. With the participation of international leaders such as Scott Kleinman (Apollo), Michael Rees (Blue Owl), Michael Smith (Ares Credit Group), and Kirk Smith (GTCR), the event highlights Mexico’s role as a bridge between local institutional capital and major global asset managers. The presence of the AFOREs, along with Banxico, Hacienda, and CONSAR, reflects the interest in strengthening the sophistication...

November 11, 2025
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11Nov

UK. Chancellor looking to cap salary sacrifice contributions to £2,000 in Autumn budget

The chancellor is planning to use the budget to limit the amount of someone’s salary that can be sacrificed through pension contributions without incurring national insurance (NI) payments to £2,000 a year. Reports in The Times and Financial Times this weekend said the chancellor would target pension salary sacrifice arrangements to raise up to £2bn a year and help fill a £30bn gap in public finances. At present there is no limit on the amount that an employee can put into their pension under salary...

November 11, 2025
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11Nov

Pension fund contributions overlooked by employers in South Africa

Some employers in the nation have a concerning tendency to deduct employees' pension contributions without transferring the funds to the pension fund account. This is against the law and unethical. When the sun sets, workers depend on this hard-earned money to get by. A few years ago, the African National Congress came under fire for failing to make contributions to workers' pension funds. The sheer scale of this problem is deeply troubling. As of March 31, 2025, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority...

November 11, 2025
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11Nov

The rise of solo aging: How people in the US are preparing to grow older alone

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute recently published a series of guides designed to assist solo agers with key financial and retirement decisions. In addition, the SOA published survey findings on the growing phenomenon of “solo aging” in the U.S. Solo agers are individuals who, as they grow older, navigate life and retirement without the traditional support network of close family members or partners. The consumer survey includes responses from Americans aged 50 or older who identify as solo agers. It provides insights into aging,...

November 11, 2025
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