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31OctOctober 31, 2023

Despite recent economic slowdown, Brazil’s job market keeps improving

While economic indicators show that the Brazilian economy is slowing down, nothing points to the country’s job market cooling down. On Monday afternoon, the Labor Ministry showed that the country created almost 212,000 new formal jobs in September (more than markets expected). And fresh unemployment data published on Tuesday shows that the joblessness rate went down to 7.7 percent in the rolling quarter through September — the lowest since February 2015. According to the latest unemployment reading, the number of employed individuals surged to 99.8 million in Q3,...

October 31, 2023

NewsBrazil, Labor Market

31OctOctober 31, 2023

Number of working Korean women in 30s surges amid low fertility rate

The recent trend of an increase in the proportion of working women in their 30s was primarily due to a reduction in the number of women with children, according to a report released Monday by the Korea Development Institute, a South Korean state-run think tank. Kim Ji-yeon, a researcher at the KDI, noted that although the drop in the number of women in their 30s that have children may seem like a positive factor in the short term because it...

October 31, 2023

NewsAging, Labor Market, South Korea

30OctOctober 30, 2023

Huge ethnicity pension gap revealed in UK figures

A UK individual from a minority ethnic background typically has a pension pot less than half the size of that belonging to the average white British saver, data reveal. The research from Legal & General’s investment arm claimed there was a sizeable “ethnicity pensions gap” in the UK that was being fuelled by “misconceptions” around pensions and a “significant distrust of employers”, as well as a lack of spare income. The average saver from a minority ethnic background has a pension pot of...

October 30, 2023

NewsEquality, System Characterization, UK

30OctOctober 30, 2023

How Nigeria’s Contributory Pension Scheme Grew 52% in Three Years

The Director General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, has said pension assets under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) surged by N5.94 trillion or 52.3 per cent over the last three years from N11.35 trillion in August 2020 to N17.29 trillion in August 2023. The CPS is an arrangement where both the employer and the employee contribute a portion of an employee’s monthly emoluments towards the payment of the latter’s pension at retirement. Speaking recently on the development...

October 30, 2023

NewsCoverage, Nigeria, Pension Management, savings

30OctOctober 30, 2023

Nest partners with Blackrock to manage investment risk

Nest has selected Blackrock’s Aladdin to manage the risk of its entire investment strategy on a single platform. The UK’s largest workplace pension scheme by members, Nest highlighted the management of key investment risks as a “crucial part” of its long-term plan to continue evolving its investment strategies across both public and private markets. The whole portfolio view and Aladdin climate components of the Aladdin platform aim to allow Nest to monitor more than 3,000 risk factors across fixed income, equity,...

October 30, 2023

NewsInvestment

30OctOctober 30, 2023

Korea’s national pension fund logs over 10% return through October

Korea's state pension fund registered some 10 percent yield through October on the back of good performance in its investments in local and overseas stocks, its operator said Monday. The National Pension Service (NPS) said the national pension fund logged a 10.27 percent return in the January-October period, with the value of its assets under management reaching 997.38 trillion won ($739 billion) as of end-October. Last year, the pension fund logged its worst return at minus 8.28 percent amid jitters in...

October 30, 2023

NewsPension Management, Returns, South Korea

27OctOctober 27, 2023

UK. New charter calls on political parties for pension reform

The Building a Consensus for Better Pensions charter unifies voices from across the pension industry in calling on major political parties for reform. Organisations from across the pension industry signed a new charter last week calling for reform to the pension savings system. The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA), the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and Age UK were among signatories calling on major UK political parties to prioritise pension reform in their manifestos ahead of the next General Election. “It’s almost 20...

October 27, 2023

NewsPension Management, UK

27OctOctober 27, 2023

Canada. Finance ministers to meet on Alberta’s proposal to leave Canada Pension Plan

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has agreed to convene a meeting with provincial and territorial finance ministers to discuss Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan. The agreement comes after Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy called for the meeting in a letter to Freeland, saying Alberta’s withdrawal could cause “serious harm.” Freeland says any province has the right to leave the program, but it’s important the decision “be based on facts and be clearly and well informed. “It is absolutely my...

October 27, 2023

NewsCanada, Pension Management, savings

27OctOctober 27, 2023

S.Korea pension fund to keep increasing overseas investments through 2028

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) will increase its overseas investments to 60% of total assets by 2028, the welfare ministry said on Friday. The NPS will also prepare a portfolio-setting mechanism to expand alternative investments more easily, employ more personnel for such investments, and diversify its portfolio with mid-risk, mid-return investments. With the measures, the NPS aims to improve its investment returns by one more percentage point to help sustain the fund, which is expected to be depleted by 2055...

October 27, 2023

NewsInvestment, South Korea

26OctOctober 26, 2023

US. Pension risk transfer pipeline remains robust, even if falling short of 2022 record

The U.S. pension risk transfer market remains robust in 2023, although it may not break the record for dollar volume set in 2022, experts say. This is despite a new record for dollar volume in the first half of 2023, totaling $22.5 billion in premiums paid for pension buyout transactions, according to research firm LIMRA. In 2022, the total volume was $48.3 billion, driven primarily by corporate pension funds' improving funding ratios, which have enabled many to pull the trigger on...

October 26, 2023

NewsInvestment, Risk, US

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