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18AugAugust 18, 2022

Investors join forces to address financial, environmental risks of water

A coalition of 64 institutional investors is collaborating to get world's biggest corporate water users and to address water as a financial risk. The Valuing Water Finance Initiative represents institutional investors with a collective $9.8 trillion in assets, and is coordinated by shareholder advocacy group Ceres and the government of the Netherlands. Read also Europe’s gas crisis: what does it mean for investors? Pension fund members include the $459.4 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System, Sacramento; $301.6 billion California State Teachers' Retirement...

August 18, 2022

News2022, ESG, Investment

18AugAugust 18, 2022

UK. 80% of employers think it is important pensions are invested responsibly

Aviva’s Working Lives Report 2022: The Big Squeeze(1) has found four out of five (80%) employers compared to 65% of employees think it is important that a workplace pension fund is invested responsibly. The research also found a further 19% of employees said responsible investment(2) is important but only as long as it does not impact the performance of their funds. However, over half (55%) of employees do not know if their workplace pension fund is invested responsibly. Just over...

August 18, 2022

News2022, Investment, UK

18AugAugust 18, 2022

Philippines has little time to address aging population – Pupulation Commission

The government should start investing on long-term programs to manage the increasing number of senior citizens in the country, particularly on health-care and employment opportunities, the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) executive director said on Wednesday. “What we need are programs to achieve active and healthy aging, including community-based rehabilitation programs. We also need programs for geriatric care … Eventually, if there are really growing numbers, let’s say beyond 10 million population, we also have to develop programs for...

August 18, 2022

News2022, Aging, Philippines

18AugAugust 18, 2022

Europe’s gas crisis: what does it mean for investors?

Europe’s precarious gas supply situation has been a prime focus for markets ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the end of February. The European Union (EU) and others were quick to apply sanctions to Russian oil. However, gas is a more complicated matter given the reliance of major European economies – most notably Germany – on natural gas from Russia. The situation became even more critical when a major supply pipeline – Nord Stream 1 – was closed for maintenance...

August 18, 2022

News2022, Investment

17AugAugust 17, 2022

U.S. $7T Retirement Crisis Is Only Getting Worse

Americans have been warned for years of an impending retirement crisis. Yet the situation is getting worse. Even when everything was going right — inflation was nonexistent, interest rates were low and stocks were in an extended bull market — there was a multi-trillion dollar savings shortfall. Read more Inflation Moderately Pressures US Public Pension Liabilities Then came a pandemic, war in Europe, decades-high inflation, the fastest rate-hiking cycle since the early 1980s and fears of a recession. The resulting market turmoil...

August 17, 2022

News2022, COVID-19, Public Pensions, US

17AugAugust 17, 2022

UK. Transfer volumes could hit £600bn as insurers post strong results

A host of insurers have revealed their first-half 2022 results that show a booming trade in risk transfers, which, by some projections, could hit £600bn over the next decade — though there are fears about a capacity crunch in the sector. Read more Older people face losing €1,532 in spending power by end of year Of those that have released their results so far, Aviva saw bulk annuity sales increase by 15 per cent, rising to £1.9bn, which compares with £1.6bn...

August 17, 2022

News2022, Pension Management, Risk, UK

17AugAugust 17, 2022

This is how long people across Europe can expect to work

Whether you love your job—or dream of retirement—most of us want to know how long our working lives will last. The next generation of Europeans are expected to work for an average of 36 years, although there are big differences between countries. Working lives in Europe have been getting longer since 2001, according to the European Commission’s data service Eurostat. They shortened slightly for the first time in 2020 because of COVID-19, but are now up to their pre-pandemic level. The...

August 17, 2022

News2022, Europe, Labor Market, Retirement Age

16AugAugust 16, 2022

Inflation Moderately Pressures US Public Pension Liabilities

The high inflation environment in the US is likely to have only moderately negative effects on state and local government public pension plan liabilities via automatic cost of living adjustment (COLA) mechanisms but will pressure plans through weakening asset performance and rising payroll costs, Fitch Ratings says. Market value smoothing and supplemental pension contributions by some governments this year from budget surpluses will help partially mitigate these challenges. While automatic COLA provisions differ across plans, those plans that provide them...

August 16, 2022

News2022, Public Pensions, US

16AugAugust 16, 2022

Older people face losing €1,532 in spending power by end of year

Older people are facing a cost of living crisis as rising inflation takes its toll on pensions and savings. By the end of 2023, older persons could lose 15% to 20% of their spending power putting them at risk of poverty. According to Age Action, Ireland’s leading advocacy agency on older persons and ageing, the average older person will lose €1,532 in spending power by the end of this year. The average older couple will lose €3,364. The charity is calling on...

August 16, 2022

News2022, Income, Ireland

16AugAugust 16, 2022

UK. Govt to change civil servants’ early pensions access

The government has proposed to change the rules around early access to pensions in the civil service, tracking 10 years behind state pension age, according to a new consultation over reforms to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. The Cabinet Office had launched a consultation to this effect in 2017, but on August 15 it published a new document with updated proposals to be discussed with trade unions as it considered that a long time has elapsed since the initial consultation,...

August 16, 2022

News2022, Public Pensions, Regulation, UK

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