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10JanJanuary 10, 2023

Life expectancy in the U.S. has declined. What does that mean for your retirement?

Last month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its most recent U.S. life expectancy estimates, and sadly, the report found that, once again, Americans’ average number of years remaining have fallen. As reported recently, life expectancy at birth is now 76.4 years (as of 2021), down from 77 a year earlier. This is a drop of approximately 7 months over a one-year period, which takes life expectancy back almost a quarter-century to 1996. This decline is certainly...

January 10, 2023

NewsFinancial Literacy, Longevity, savings, US

10JanJanuary 10, 2023

UK. The key legal issues for pension schemes in 2023

After what proved to be an eventful year for schemes in 2022, top pension lawyers speak to Jasmine Urquhart about what they think will be some of the key legal and regulatory issues during the year ahead. Pensions dashboards At the top of the list for many lawyers consulted was the forthcoming introduction of pensions dashboards. As well as connecting to dashboards by their staging deadline, schemes must act on ‘find requests' and ‘view requests' relating to individuals, and provide members...

January 10, 2023

NewsOperations, Technology, UK

10JanJanuary 10, 2023

The Problem in An Aging Society is Income Distribution

The New York Times had a major article reporting on how many people in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan are being forced to work well into their seventies because they lack sufficient income to retire. The piece presents this as a problem of aging societies, which will soon hit the United States and other rich countries with declining birth rates and limited immigration. While the plight of the older workers discussed in the article is a real problem, the...

January 10, 2023

NewsAging, Income

10JanJanuary 10, 2023

The 30-year battle to reform France’s pension system

President Emmanuel Macron plans Tuesday to defy threats of mass protests in launching yet another bid to reform France’s debt-ridden pension system by forcing the French to work longer. In 2019, his attempt to replace dozens of separate regimes with a single points-based system and to push back the age for a full pension from 62 to 64 sparked the longest transport strike in decades. AFP looks back at the 30-year battle by various French governments of the left and right...

January 10, 2023

NewsFrance, Pension Reform

09JanJanuary 9, 2023

Bracing for the silver tsunami

Since 2011, sales of adult diapers in Japan have outpaced those for infants, reflecting a decline in the country’s fertility rate (live births per woman) from 3.66 in 1950 to around 1.5 by the early 1990s. Since then, Japanese fertility has remained stuck far below the “replacement rate” (2.1), amounting to a mere 1.3 in 2021. And geriatric Japan is not alone. Fertility rates have also dropped below the replacement level in all eurozone countries, and they are strikingly low...

January 9, 2023

NewsAging, Japan, Labor Market

09JanJanuary 9, 2023

How world’s biggest funds are preparing for a cash crunch

In a year of disease, war and inflation, one event struck fear into the heads of Australia’s super funds more than any other. That was October’s UK pension crisis which, had it not been for the intervention of the Bank of England, would have rendered many pension funds insolvent. While most Australian super funds would say they think deeply about ensuring they are never caught without enough emergency cash, that episode brought home just how quickly a liquidity crisis can evolve. The...

January 9, 2023

NewsAustralia, Investment, Pension Management, UK

09JanJanuary 9, 2023

France. Macron’s Pension Reform May Get Nod From Opposition Republicans

French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to increase the retirement age to preserve the financial balance of the national pension system may get the backing of the Republican opposition party, its leader Eric Ciotti said. An overhaul that would progressively raise the retirement age from 62 currently to 64 in 2032 may be acceptable, the president of the conservative party said in an interview published Sunday in Le Journal du Dimanche. Raising the smallest minimum pensions will be key to clinching...

January 9, 2023

NewsFrance, Pension Reform

09JanJanuary 9, 2023

China. Authorities mull measures to address aging population

Moves may include the gradual raising of the national retirement age and changes to the ways senior care is funded. Li Lei reports. As officials wrapped up 12 months of work and planned for the future at closely watched meetings that marked the end of the year, issues involving older people came under the spotlight. Data published by the National Health Commission in October showed that 267 million people, or 18.9 percent of the population, were age 60 and older. That meant...

January 9, 2023

NewsAging, China, Retirement Age

06JanJanuary 6, 2023

UK. Retirement investors rethink plans amid challenging economic climate

Just under half of retirement investors (49.6 per cent) have rethought their retirement plans or strategy in response to the challenging economic climate, research from AJ Bell has revealed. AJ Bell’s customer survey 2022 revealed that 50.4 per cent of respondents stated that the challenging economic climate had not changed their retirement plans or that they were too far away from retirement to be affected. Of those who indicated that their retirement plans had been affected, the most common response was...

January 6, 2023

NewsInvestment, UK

06JanJanuary 6, 2023

US. Financial Planning for Retirement: It’s More Accessible, but Be Careful

I’ve been writing and researching articles on finance and money for most of my career, and covering retirement for the past 15 years. But my wife and I haven’t picked a stock or mutual fund for our own retirement accounts since the late 1990s, or written our own retirement plan. For that, we rely on a financial planner. Hiring a planner is one of the smartest financial moves we have made. This type of advice was once a subset of...

January 6, 2023

NewsPension design, Pension Management, US

January 2023