June 2021
04Jun

Chile. La Bolsa de Santiago cae casi 4% ante proyecto para retirada de pensiones

La Bola de Santiago de Chile registró una caída del 3,80 % este jueves, jornada en la que un grupo de parlamentarios presentó un proyecto de ley que busca permitir a los ciudadanos retirar de forma anticipada la totalidad de sus fondos de pensiones. El Índice de Precio Selectivo de Acciones (IPSA), principal indicador de la plaza local, cerró en los 4.226 puntos, sufriendo su peor jornada desde el pasado 17 de mayo cuando el parqué chileno se desplomó un...

June 4, 2021
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04Jun

EIOPA issues Guidelines on the supervisory reporting for the Pan-European Personal Pension Product

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority published today the Guidelines on the supervisory reporting regarding the Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) to ensure the common, uniform and consistent application of the PEPP Regulation's reporting requirements. The Guidelines complement the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/895 and the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/896 and regulate the applicable reporting deadlines for the PEPP providers to the competent authorities in line with the relevant sectoral rules in place. Furthermore, the Guidelines define the requirements of...

June 4, 2021
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04Jun

Pandemic spurs cautious plan changes among pensions

Pension plans are cautious about making plan changes, despite the improved economy following the pandemic, according to a survey by Mercer and CFO Research. The report is based on responses from 201 senior finance executives at firms with $500 million or more in annual revenue. About a third of respondents said they were taking advantage of relief in the American Rescue Plan Act to change funding thresholds to avoid benefit restrictions or participant notices, but only 15% expect to speed...

June 4, 2021
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04Jun

Botswana’s $7.5 billion pension fund appoints South African administrator

Botswana’s Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOF), with 83 billion pula ($7.85 billion) in assets under management, has appointed South African advisory firm NMG Benefits to administrate the fund. Effective June 2, NMG Botswana, a joint venture between BPOPF (51%) and NMG South Africa (49%), will collect contributions, manage payrolls and maintain records for the 156,000-member fund, it said late on Wednesday. The outsourcing of the fund’s administration is to comply with a 2017 decision by Botswana’s regulators that all pension funds...

June 4, 2021
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03Jun

BlackRock wins monumental mandate

BlackRock will be the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) for $39.9 billion (£21.5 billion) of British Airways Pensions' assets. The mandate is for the investment management of Airways Pension Scheme (APS) and New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) which serve more than 85,000 members. Both APS and NAPs where previously managed by British Airways Pension Investment Management (BAPIML). The choice to externalise the investment management came from increased regulation, operational costs and investment complexity in the UK pension scheme industry. In addition, the schemes...

June 3, 2021
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03Jun

US. 401k Savings, Account Balances Grew During Pandemic

Closed restaurants and movie theaters meant more disposable income for retirement savings during the pandemic. T. Rowe Price is out with its annual Reference Point 401k benchmarking report featuring year-over-year data and analysis on participant behavior and plan design, and the results were positive, all things considered. “While the financial, physical, and emotional strains caused by the pandemic had, and will continue to have, repercussions on plan design and retirement savings outcomes, it was encouraging to see that through it all,...

June 3, 2021
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02Jun

La complejidad de la crisis por Covid-19 y la fragilidad del mercado de trabajo mexicano. Las brechas entre hombres y mujeres en la ocupación, la desocupación y la disponibilidad para trabajar

Por Ana Ruth Escoto Castillo, Mauricio Padrón Innamorato, Rosa Patricia Román Reyes La implementación de medidas para controlar la propagación de la Covid-19 en México ha tenido un gran impacto sobre las condiciones, características y procesos de entrada y salida del mercado laboral nacional, modificando las situaciones y expectativas de millones de personas, particularmente de las mujeres. Este trabajo busca revisar y describir la dinámica laboral antes del inicio de la pandemia y una vez flexibilizadas las medidas sanitarias más...

June 2, 2021
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02Jun

La larga marcha de la economía informal en Latinoamérica

Por Santos Miguel Ruesga Benito Hace ya más de 50 años se iniciaron los prime-ros trabajos académicos sobre la informalidad en países en vías de desarrollo. En el trans-curso de este medio siglo las actividades in-formales han sido una constante en el débil y vulnerable proceso de desarrollo registrado en el continente latinoamericano. Y, en estás más de cinco décadas, la economía informal ha es-tado siempre presente con cifras que han superado con demasiada frecuencia más de la mitad del...

June 2, 2021
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02Jun

México. Afores reducen su apetito por invertir en acciones durante abril

Las administradoras de fondos para el retiro (Afores) redujeron su apetito por las inversiones en acciones de empresas nacionales y extranjeras en abril pasado. Leer también México. Preocupa a inversionistas el efecto de la inflación en sus ahorros Según un reporte de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar), las administradoras disminuyeron un 16.7% sus posiciones en renta variable, con un saldo acumulando de 789,000 millones de pesos que se compara negativamente con los 948,000 millones de...

June 2, 2021
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02Jun

UK. Pensions Regulator Urges Robust Liquidity Risk Analysis

Trustees of retirement saving schemes have improved their understanding of the liquidity risks facing their programs, but they should be more robust when they analyze those dangers, a director at the pensions watchdog has warned. David Fairs, an executive director at The Pensions Regulator, said that major government and central bank intervention programs around the globe in late 2020 — such as lowering interest rates — helped to stabilize markets during the coronavirus outbreak. But interventions in the future cannot...

June 2, 2021
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