February 2026

US. Mark Levine’s Priorities at the NYC Pension System

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine wants to increase the city’s pension investments in affordable housing, and will not slow down on the city’s sustainability initiatives, Levine said in an interview with CIO.  As comptroller, Levine oversees the five New York City pension systems—the Teachers’ Retirement System, Employees Retirement System, Police Pension Fund, Fire Pension Fund, and the Board of Education Retirement System—which collectively manage $311.35 billion in assets. “My No. 1 obligation in this role is to protect the retirement assets of the three-quarters of a million people who...

South Korea’s Older Adults Employment Rate Reaches 70% Milestone

As South Korea's society rapidly ages, the employment rate of older adults, aged 55–64, last year surpassed 70% for the first time since statistical records began. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor’s "Trends in Older Adult Employment" data released on the 4th, the employment rate for older adults last year was 70.5%, exceeding 70% for the first time since related statistics began in 1983. This marks a slight increase from the previous year’s 69.9%. The statistic defines those...

México. Ahorros para el retiro en las Afores crecieron más del doble que los de vivienda del Infonavit

Durante el 2025, los ahorros para el retiro de los trabajadores en las Afores crecieron más que el doble en comparación con los ahorros para la vivienda administrados por el Infonavit. Mientras que los ahorros para el retiro administrados por las Afores crecieron 22% el año pasado, los recursos para la vivienda administrados por el Infonavit solo aumentaron 8%, de acuerdo con datos de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar). Carlos Ramírez, consultor y expresidente de...

Chile. PGU sube a $ 231.732 este mes para beneficiarios menores de 82 años

Los beneficiarios de la Pensión Garantizada Universal (PGU) que sean menores de 82 años -y que aún no perciben el aumento a $ 250 mil que estableció la reforma de pensiones- recibirán desde este mes el reajuste anual de esta ayuda estatal. A partir del 1 de febrero, la PGU subió desde los $ 224.004 a $ 231.732. Se trata de un incremento de 3,45%. Según estableció la ley Nº 21.419, que dio origen al beneficio creado en los últimos meses de la segunda administración de Sebastián...

La deuda de pensiones de El Salvador superó los 11,241 millones de dólares en 2025

El saldo de la deuda estatal con los fondos de pensiones privados en El Salvador superó los 11,241 millones de dólares en 2025, según datos publicados por el Banco Central de Reserva (BCR) con base en información del Instituto Salvadoreño de Pensiones (ISP). El informe del BCR indica que la deuda nacional con los fondos de pensiones pasó de 10.525,96 millones de dólares a finales de 2024 a 11.241,13 millones de dólares en diciembre de 2025, un crecimiento del 6,8 % en un año, impulsado por un aumento...

Vast majority of DB members confident about their pension

Confidence among defined benefit (DB) members is high, with 86% saying they feel confident about their pension, trust it is secure, understand how it works and expect it to deliver without surprises, latest research from Standard Life reveals. The insurer's DB Member Insights Report 2026 – based on a survey of 1,000 DB members,  commissioned by Standard Life and conducted by Censuswide in October – found this confidence was largely due to trust in the system rather than deep knowledge of the...

US. Trump is pushing to include risky assets like crypto and private equity in 401(k)s

In an executive order dated August 7, 2025, President Trump called for a reexamination of regulations and guidance for retirement plans. Trump asked regulators to encourage retirement plan administrators to include risky options like alternative assets (or “alts”) in 401(k) and similar retirement plans. Alternative assets could be funds invested in private equity and cryptocurrencies, assets that lack strict regulation and whose value and risk can be hard to assess compared with other types of investments. Because of this, many consider...

UK Treasury offers £100k exit packages amid job cuts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to cut roughly 300 roles from her department by 2030, the Financial Times reported on Monday (2 February). The UK Treasury is reportedly offering officials in the finance ministry up to £100,000 to leave voluntarily amid a wider push to trim administrative spending across Whitehall by 16%. The finance ministry, which employs about 2,100 staff, has already imposed a freeze on external recruitment for many non-essential roles, according to the Financial Times. The voluntary exit packages are calculated as three weeks’ salary for...

How aging changes rats’ social choices and what that may mean for healthy aging

The loss of social connectedness as people age increases the odds of cognitive-related disorders and can worsen health outcomes in older populations. But is there a direct relationship between social behavior and cognition? Subhadeep Dutta Gupta, Peter Rapp, and colleagues, from the National Institute on Aging, developed a rat model to probe social cognition in the aging brain. As presented in their eNeuro paper, the researchers used 169 young and aged male rats to discover that while older rats were as social as younger...

January 2026

México. Amafore alerta: ahorro voluntario en Afores solo hace clic para quien gana más de 45 mil pesos al mes

El ahorro voluntario en las Afores no es una opción viable para todos los trabajadores y solo resulta relevante para quienes perciben ingresos por arriba del promedio, como aquellos que ganan alrededor de 45 mil pesos mensuales y cuya pensión garantizada ronda los 16 mil pesos, afirmó Guillermo Zamarripa, presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Amafore). Durante la conferencia de prensa, Zamarripa señaló que el bajo nivel de ahorro voluntario refleja tanto un problema...