March 2019

18Mar

How CPPIB is tapping ‘alternative data’ to refine its investment processes

CPPIB has assembled a team to experiment with different kinds of information in making longer-term investment decisions There was a time when the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board didn’t even make “alternative” investments. Now, Canada’s biggest pension fund says it is sifting through “alternative” forms of data to try to improve its investment decisions. CPPIB has assembled what it calls a “data-driven edge” team, a small group of investors and data scientists that are experimenting with different kinds of information in...

March 18, 2019
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18Mar

Public Pensions And Social Trust

So it seems that I hit the one-year mark of my writing on retirement at this platform, and have still not managed to address some of the topics I wanted to discuss, in particular, questions of what pensions look like abroad and what we can learn from them.  But right now I find myself thinking about international comparisons in another way, around the question of social trust. Round about a year ago, Megan McArdle, formerly a Bloomberg columnist and now writing at...

March 18, 2019
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15Mar

UK. Pensioners risk £68,000 shortfall as they underestimate the cost of retirement

Pensioners risk a shortfall of more than £68,000 over the course of their retirement as 33% of Brits expect to survive solely on their state pension, new research from Nationwide Building Society shows Based on today’s pensioner spending habits, those retiring in future could be close to £400 out of pocket each month due to a gap between expectations and reality. This significant miscalculation could prove to be a major setback to tomorrow’s pensioners enjoying their later life – forcing...

March 15, 2019
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15Mar

Goldman Sachs creates new superannuation, pensions role for Australia

Goldman Sachs has demonstrated their focus on Australia and New Zealand's superannuation and pensions space with the creation of a new role. Rory MacEwan will become head of superannuation and pensions funds for Goldman Sachs in Australia and New Zealand. This is a newly created position for Goldman Sachs that will sit within their financial and strategic investors group. Goldman Sachs' head of investment banking Christian Johnston said: "This appointment demonstrates our increased focus on these important clients." MacEwan joined...

March 15, 2019
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15Mar

Why Americans must rise to the challenge of an aging population

At dawn on his 62nd birthday in 1366, Petrarch started a letter to his friend Boccaccio. “When you feel that you are old,” the Italian humanist told his fellow writer, “then and no sooner will you declare your old age.” Why should we care about old age any more now than Petrarch did then? Demographics. Every day until 2030, about 10,000 Americans will turn 65. Between now and 2050, the number of Americans over 65 will double. By then,...

March 15, 2019
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15Mar

Wealthy millennial women are more likely to defer to their husbands on investing

When it comes to managing money long-term, wealthy women are opting out of responsibility and deferring to their male partners. Investment bank UBS polled 3,700 married women, widows, and divorcees across nine countries. All the interviewees were classified as high-net-worth individuals. The survey found that while the women were very likely to take an active role in day-to-day money management, they were much less likely to have responsibility for longterm financial planning tools like savings, investments, pension management, and...

March 15, 2019
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14Mar

South Korean pension fund deals blow to Elliott in Hyundai fight

Elliott Management received a potentially fatal blow in its proxy fight to shake up South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group on Thursday when major shareholder the National Pension Service (NPS) said it would vote down the U.S. hedge fund’s proposals. Elliott, founded by billionaire Paul Singer, has been battling to get South Korea’s No.2 conglomerate to return excess capital to shareholders and fix governance problems since May last year when it scuppered a restructuring plan. [L4N1RG5BG] The fund has demanded...

March 14, 2019
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14Mar

Scottish public pension fund partners with MSIM on sustainability

Scottish Borders Council Pension Fund has become the first UK local authority pension fund to invest in Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s (MSIM) Global Sustain Strategy. Launched in 2018, the strategy is managed by MSIM’s international equity team and invests in firms that are carbon light, tobacco-free, alcohol-free, and free of fossil fuels. Councillor David Parker, the pension fund’s chair, said: “The Scottish Borders Council Pension Fund believes that a positive approach to ESG issues can positively affect the financial...

March 14, 2019
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14Mar

Thailand. NGOs call for universal pensions as key to women’s rights and development

As member states and NGOs are gathering at the UN in New York for the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), HelpAge International and its partners are calling for universal social protection for vulnerable older women. Around the world, women are more likely than men to live in poverty throughout their lives, to be disempowered socially and economically, and have their rights denied. Most of the world's older women struggle to survive and feed...

March 14, 2019
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14Mar

Ageing Britons More Likely To Be Impoverished And Unwell, Says Report

Millions more people can expect to live their last years in poverty and hardship, with increasing health challenges, a damning independent report has said. An increasing number of people reaching old age is putting pressure on health services, the Centre for Ageing Better, who ran the report, said. But Dr Anna Dixon from the Centre was keen to assert “our current rates of chronic illness, mental health conditions, disability and frailty could be greatly reduced if we tackled the...

March 14, 2019
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