August 2019

05Aug

How South Africans can check where their retirement savings are actually going

Most South Africans would not knowingly support activities that might harm the environment, endanger the health of others or violate the rights of workers. Still, unless you know where your money is going, how can you be sure that it is being spent or invested responsibly? That is a question which the Financial Services Conduct Authority may help retirement fund members answer, says Deirdre Phillips, a partner at law firm Bowmans. By encouraging funds to make their investment policy...

August 5, 2019
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05Aug

UK. Pensions industry making ‘fat living’ from charging savers, MPs claim

Parts of the pension industry are making a “fat living” from people’s savings and should come under tougher scrutiny, MPs have said. In a damning Commons report, the work and pensions committee called for the government to take urgent action against pension funds that fail to disclose how much they charge savers, saying it is “unconvinced” that the industry will act voluntarily on providing transparent information about the costs and charges of investments. MPs have called for providers behind...

August 5, 2019
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05Aug

The Zanzibar Universal Pension

Two years ago Zanzibar took the revolutionary step of becoming the first in East and Central Africa to introduce a universal pension scheme for those over 70. Since its introduction, 28,117 older people are now benefitting from the scheme. Although an important leap towards the financial protection of older people, a recent study by the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) revealed that older people's source of income was still highly dependent on relatives despite being able to access...

August 5, 2019
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03Aug

Behavioral Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know

By H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, John R. Nofsinger People tend to be penny wise and pound foolish and cry over spilt milk, even though we are taught to do neither. Focusing on the present at the expense of the future and basing decisions on lost value are two mistakes common to decision-making that are particularly costly in the world of finance. Behavioral Finance: What Everyone Needs to KnowR provides an overview of common shortcuts and mistakes people make...

August 3, 2019
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03Aug

Informality and the Challenge of Pension Adequacy: Outlook and Reform Options for Peru

By Christoph Freudenberg, Frederik Toscani Past reforms have put the Peruvian pension system on a largely fiscally sustainable path, but the system faces important challenges in providing adequate pension levels for a large share of the population. Using administrative microdata at the affiliate level, we project replacement rates in the defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) pillars over the next 30 years and simulate the impact of various reform scenarios on the average level and distribution of pensions. In...

August 3, 2019
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03Aug

Multiemployer plans: evaluating a proposal to spread the pain

By Alicia Munnell, Jean- Pierre Aubry, Wenliang, Hou, Anthony Webb The Multiemployer Pension Reform Act (MPRA) allows multiemployer plans facing insolvency to apply for approval from the Treasury to cut accrued benefits of plan members to prolong plan solvency—a departure from the benefit protections of Employee Retirement Income Security Act. To assess the law's impact, this paper models Central States Teamsters – by far the largest – plan to have applied under the new law to reduce benefits. Using...

August 3, 2019
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02Aug

Urge aumentar ahorro obligatorio para el retiro o habrá una crisis en el país: Amafore

Si no se reforma a la brevedad el sistema de pensiones para aumentar el ahorro obligatorio de los trabajadores en su afore, se va a detonar una crisis en el país, advirtió Bernardo González, presidente ejecutivo del Asociación Mexicana de las Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Amafore). “Si no garantizamos pensiones dignas para los trabajadores en el largo plazo, vamos a tener una crisis como país, esto no es asustar, es una realidad y los números están...

August 2, 2019
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02Aug

El fondo de mayor rentabilidad de las AFP chilenas en Julio

El recorte de tasas y la búsqueda de refugio de los inversionistas han valorizado la renta fija, la base de los fondos más conservadores. El D logró en julio el mayor retorno desde la creación de los multifondos, en 2002. Un desempeño tan alto como inusual han tenido durante el último año los fondos de pensiones D y E, los más conservadores del sistema de AFP, debido a las ganancias que les han aportado los instrumentos de renta fija...

August 2, 2019
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02Aug

México tiene la peor brecha salarial de género de Latinoamérica: informe

Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador no tienen la peor brecha de diferencia salarial entre hombres y mujeres en la región, sino la presenta México, aseguró Rogelio Gómez Hermosillo, coordinador de Acción Ciudadana Frente a la Pobreza. “Lo que es notorio es que esa brecha salarial sea la peor de América Latina (…). Eso es una vergüenza”, enfatizó al presentar los resultados del Segundo Informe del Observatorio de Trabajo Digno. Es necesario eliminar las normas que propician la discriminación, el...

August 2, 2019
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02Aug

Colombia. ¿Bajo cuáles circunstancias es conveniente pensionarse en Colpensiones?

Mauricio Galindo, editor de economía de El Tiempo, y autor del libro “¿Cómo nos vamos a pensionar?”, a raíz de nuestro artículo ¿Será cierto que al 95 % de los colombianos le conviene un fondo privado y al 5 % Colpensiones? explica que la clave está en definir si al afiliado le convienen más los fondos privados o Colpensiones, punto que cada persona debe analizar de acuerdo con sus propias circunstancias. Frente a la conveniencia de que al 95...

August 2, 2019
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