2021 Archives - Page 109 of 177 - Pension Policy International

16JunJune 16, 2021

A preservation ‘revival’ will supercharge South Africa’s retirement outcomes

South Africa's retirement outcomes will improve radically if all retirement funding contributions are kept invested when fund members change jobs. Other quick wins include increasing the minimum government pension; delaying the government retirement age beyond 60 years; and refocusing the industry from saving a lump sum at retirement to providing a sustainable income in retirement. These observations were made by Dr David Knox, the lead author of the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index (GPI), during a keynote address to...

June 16, 2021

News, Slider2021, COVID-19, Pension Reform, South Africa, System sustainability

16JunJune 16, 2021

UK. TPR secures £730m insolvency protection for Sanofi Pension Scheme

Sanofi’s defined benefit (DB) pension scheme has additional insolvency protection of up to £730m for 20 years, following intervention from The Pensions Regulator (TPR). The regulator worked with the global healthcare company to secure the increased financial support for the scheme, which also includes deficit repair contributions and an upfront payment of £37m, after warning that it would take enforcement action if necessary. TPR added that the scheme, which has 16,500 members, now also benefits from a legally binding agreement which...

June 16, 2021

News, Slider2021, Corporate pensions, COVID-19, Regulation, UK

16JunJune 16, 2021

La asimetría de la discapacidad y la incapacidad laboral en España

Por Raúl Jesús Regal Ramos El objetivo de este trabajo es describir y analizar las cifras de la incapacidad laboral permanente y la discapacidad en España. Para ello, se ha realizado una revisión de las estadísticas de acceso público y gratuito que se encuentra en las web del Instituto de Migraciones y Servicios Sociales y del Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social. En España existe una alta prevalencia de pensionistas de incapacidad permanente que en el año 2019 han supuesto...

June 16, 2021

Artículos, Mercado Laboral2021, Sector Informal, Seguridad Social

16JunJune 16, 2021

Género y desigualdad laboral: la brecha salarial como indicador agregado

Por Reyes de Blas Gómez, Bruno Estrada López La evolución de la brecha salarial de género • La brecha salarial entre hombres y mujeres es una realidad en nuestro país. Durante la última década (2008-2018), los salarios medios de los hombres han sido sustancialmente superiores a los de las mujeres. En 2018, último año de datos disponibles de la Encuesta de Estructura Salarial del INE, el salario medio anual de las mujeres era tan solo de 21.012 euros, frente a 26.738...

June 16, 2021

Artículos, Mercado Laboral, Suficiencia2021, Brecha de Género, Ingreso

15JunJune 15, 2021

Panamá está a punto de tener 800 mil trabajadores informales

El empleo informal ha generado un dominio sin precedentes en el mercado laboral. Se está muy cerca de llegar a los 800 mil trabajadores informales en el país, de acuerdo con Samuel Moreno, director del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC) de la Contraloría General de la República. Leer también Informalidad en los tiempos del COVID-19 en América Latina: implicaciones y opciones de amortiguamiento Se trata de una cantidad enorme de trabajadores que no estarían tributando sobre la renta devengada,...

June 15, 2021

Noticias2021, América Latina, COVID-19, Panamá, Sector Informal, Suficiencia

15JunJune 15, 2021

Chile. Retiro 100% AFP: cuántos votos se necesita para que el Congreso lo apruebe y cuál es el pronóstico

Los proyectos de ley para solicitar el retiro del 100% de los fondos de la AFP aún no logran el respaldo del Congreso, que sí apoyo tres retiros del 10%. Es por ello que ni siquiera aún se ha comenzado a discutir la idea de legislar en el Parlamento, lo que deja la iniciativa con un futuro incierto. ¿Cuántos votos se necesita y su futuro? La iniciativa antes de cualquier votación necesita ser ingresada en la tabla de la comisión de Constitución....

June 15, 2021

Noticias2021, América Latina, Chile, COVID-19, Retiro de Fondos

15JunJune 15, 2021

APAC pensions industry and recent trends in Japan

Pension assets across the largest pensions’ markets increased 11% in 2020, according to the Global Pensions Assets Study 2021 by Willis Towers Watson. Asia Pacific pension funds beat their peers in asset value growth in 2019, according to a report on the world’s top 300 pension funds by the Thinking Ahead Institute. Assets under management (AUM) of the top 20 pension funds grew 8.1% year-on-year in 2019, led by a 10.6% growth in the assets of Asia Pacific funds. Read...

June 15, 2021

News, Slider2021, Aging, Asia, COVID-19, Japan, Pension Reform

15JunJune 15, 2021

US. Lost 401(k) accounts and pensions: How lawmakers want to fix the problem

For workers who lose track of their 401(k) savings accounts, help may be on the way. Proposed retirement legislation that’s pending in Congress would create an online “lost and found” database to help locate those accounts, among a variety of other provisions. While lawmakers are in the early stages of considering changes, retirement advocates say the initiative — which also would help people access lost pension benefits — can’t come soon enough. “We have serious problems with retirees not being able...

June 15, 2021

News, Slider2021, COVID-19, Pension Management, Regulation, US

15JunJune 15, 2021

UK. Third of high risk DB transfers would pass new scam test

One in three defined benefit transfers flagged as high risk would be allowed under new government proposals designed to reduce scams, a consultancy has warned. XPS looked at data from its Scam Protection Service and found that of all the transfers flagged by the service since July 2018, one in three would have satisfied the ‘first condition’ of the Department for Work and Pensions’ proposed legislation. The government is planning to give trustees the power to halt suspicious transfers and has...

June 15, 2021

News, Slider2021, DB Schemes, Risk, UK

15JunJune 15, 2021

PIC confirms it owns 30% of new SAA consortium partner

The PIC has confirmed that it owns 30% of Harith General Partners, an investment group that's part of a consortium that will own a majority stake in SAA. While still the head of corporate finance at the PIC, Tshepo Mahloele, spearheaded the creation of Harith - which was founded with PIC investments. He later left the PIC to run Harith. The commission that investigated wrongdoing at the PIC found that Harith's conduct "was driven by financial reward to...

June 15, 2021

News, Slider2021, Pension Management, South Africa

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