December 2018

19Dec

UK. Can The Government Really Help Self-Employed Workers With Their Pensions?

In 2012, the UK Government launched a minimum contribution pension scheme for employed workers, meaning that a proportion of their monthly salary would be automatically withdrawn and saved for them to access at retirement age. The scheme was well-received, with 10 million workers being automatically opted in and only 9% of those enrolled choosing to opt-out. However, this automatic enrolment didn’t account for the self-employed, who make up an estimated 15% of the UK workforce. According to Guy Opperman, Minister for...

December 19, 2018
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19Dec

US. The states where pensions are safe and where they’re in trouble

Kentucky’s public pension, which was at risk of benefit cuts, may be saved Kentucky has one of the worst public pension plans in the country, but it’s just been saved from getting even worse. The state’s Supreme Court ruled against a reform law that would have cut benefits for public employees, including teachers, law enforcement, firefighters, social workers and government workers. Under the law, workers hired between 2003 and 2008 would have to pay 1% of their salaries for retiree health...

December 19, 2018
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19Dec

How China got a head start in fintech, and why the West won’t catch up

Payment apps like Alipay and WeChat transformed daily life in China. The West won’t see a similar payments revolution—and that might even be a good thing. In 2013 I moved from Paris to Beijing to study China’s financial system. I stayed for two years and became fluent enough to translate economics books from Mandarin into English and give talks on monetary policy in Mandarin. But I never really felt I fit in until I visited again and Alipay finally approved me...

December 19, 2018
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18Dec

México. Ahorradores deberán pagar más impuestos en 2019

Para el siguiente año, los ahorradores del sistema financiero mexicano deberán pagar más impuestos por las ganancias o rendimientos que obtengan sobre sus ahorros. De acuerdo con la Ley de Ingresos de la Federación (LIF), enviada por el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador al Congreso de la Unión para su discusión y aprobación, los intermediarios financieros que paguen intereses a sus clientes deberán retener una mayor proporción de impuestos, más del doble de lo que se retuvo en 2018. “Durante...

December 18, 2018
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18Dec

México. Más del 50% de pensionados por afore, no tendrán acceso al IMSS: Urzúa

Al no alcanzar las 1,250 semanas de cotización, los trabajadores podrán retirar sus ahorros, pero no tendrán acceso a los servicios de salud. Más del 50% de los trabajadores que ahorran en una administradora de fondos para el retiro (afore), no podrán tener acceso a los servicios de salud que da el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), expuso Carlos Urzúa Macías, secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP). “Es probable que muchas personas no alcancen las semanas de cotización que...

December 18, 2018
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18Dec

UK. Former BHS owner Dominic Chappell forced to pay £124,000 for failing to provide information about pension scheme

BHS went into administration in April 2016 leaving a pension deficit worth £571m, following Sir Phillip Green’s sale of the business to Mr Chappell the previous year. Sir Philip Green ordered to pay £363m into BHS pension scheme The Pensions Regulator (TPR) says it requested vital information about the sale of the business and its pension scheme from the former bankrupt three times. The ruling follows an appeal from Mr Chappell against his original conviction in January. BHS owner fined by pensions regulator Judge...

December 18, 2018
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18Dec

Argentina. Pensiones, seguridad y educación, ejes del debate presidencial

Los aspirantes hablaron además, sin profundizar, de "retomar el control" en los territorios asediados por las violentas pandillas Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), Barrio 18 y otras y reforzar los programas de prevención. Una reforma al sistema de pensiones, apostar por la educación en la primera infancia y recuperar los territorios asediados por las pandillas fueron los temas que centraron el debate de los candidatos a la Presidencia de El Salvador de cara a los comicios de febrero de 2019. Los aspirantes...

December 18, 2018
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18Dec

US. Tax-Efficient Retirement Withdrawal Strategies

Earlier this year Fidelity reported that the number of 401K millionaires hit an all time high of 168,000 and the number of IRA millionaires hit 156,000. Now that the 76 million Baby Boomers are starting to retire and reach the age of Required Minimum Distributions - planning for tax efficiently drawing down their savings is becoming a bigger concern. Additionally many people believe we may be in a once in a generation window of low taxes , and that...

December 18, 2018
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18Dec

México. Las comisiones de las afores

La Junta de Gobierno de la Consar autorizó el 11 de diciembre el monto de la comisión que cada afore podrá cobrar en el 2019 sobre el saldo total de las cuentas individuales. El promedio de las comisiones permitidas para las 10 afores es 0.98%, una baja de 3 puntos base en relación con el 2018 (1.01 por ciento). Desde el 2008, consistentemente cada año las comisiones han bajado, pero en los últimos años el ritmo de descenso se...

December 18, 2018
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17Dec

Emergency Brexit plan being drafted for Irish residents receiving British pension payments

Emergency legislation is being drafted to ensure people living in Ireland who receive a British state pension are not impacted by the UK crashing out of the European Union. Senior civil servants are also drafting legislation which would ensure British-based pensioners who receive the Irish state pension do not lose out in a no-deal Brexit scenario. More than 135,000 people living in Ireland receive the British state pension. Pension payments are just one area of legislation identified during a root-and-branch trawl...

December 17, 2018
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