February 2021
25Feb

Germany. Vantik and Mastercard simplify saving for retirement with new debit card

Financial security in retirement is one of the most urgent issues in Germany and Europe. In order to offer people a simple access to savings for retirement, the Berlin-based Fintech Vantik announces a partnership with Mastercard and the banking-as-a-service-platform Vodeno. The heart of the cooperation is the combination of a free debit Mastercard with long-term savings: users of the Vantikcard receive 1% cashback on every purchase, which are automatically invested into a sustainable pension fund. Saving for retirement is thus...

February 25, 2021
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25Feb

Plataformas Digitales Y Precarización Laboral En Costa Rica. El Caso De Uber

Por Leonela Artavia Jiménez, Larissa Tristán, Jiménez, Ignacio Siles González e Ingrid Ross América Central es una región que enfrenta retos económicos, sociales y de sistema político. Costa Rica, aunque presenta condiciones menos desfavorables que otros países de la región, no se escapa de esta realidad. Según la Encuesta Continua de Empleo del III trimestre de 2020 en Costa Rica el desempleo se situó en 22%, y el trabajo informal en 44,5%. Estos números son alarmantes y aumentan cuando se...

February 25, 2021
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24Feb

Fondos deben liderar proyectos ASG

Los fondos de pensiones y los grandes manejadores globales de activos tienen más que nunca el mandato de integrar con mayor profundidad los criterios ambientales, sociales y de gobierno corporativo (ASG) en sus decisiones de inversión, así como promover la implementación de mejores informe de sostenibilidad, sostuvo Dariush Yazdani, Líder del AM Market Research Centre en PwC Luxemburgo. Leer también Principios ASG, el nuevo rostro de las inversiones Durante su participación en el Seminario “Inversiones Responsables”, organizado por la Asociación Mexicana...

February 24, 2021
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24Feb

Puerto Rico rechaza acuerdo; alega que recortaría pensiones

El gobernador de Puerto Rico anunció el martes que la junta de supervisión financiera llegó a un acuerdo que reduciría en un 80% la deuda de la isla, pero advirtió que su gobierno lo rechazará porque le exigiría recortar el sistema de pensiones. El impasse entre el gobierno y la junta financiera amenaza con sumir en la incertidumbre los intentos de superar un proceso similar a una declaración de bancarrota para el gobierno de la isla, que hace seis años...

February 24, 2021
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24Feb

España. La pensión de los autónomos será 380 euros más alta tras la reforma del Reta

Exclusivamente en la lógica del actual sistema público de pensiones, cotizar por los denominados ingresos reales tiene recompensa futura para los autónomos, aunque supone un importante esfuerzo presente, dados los niveles de facturación y los problemas estructurales que arrastran decenas de miles de trabajadores por cuenta propia con facturación volátil. Instaurar un sistema de cotización por ingresos reales supone pagar 144,49 euros más al mes a la Seguridad Social, pero a cambio de una pensión futura 377,92 euros más...

February 24, 2021
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24Feb

U.S. Teachers’ Pensions Helped Fund War Over Oil in Iraq

It’s not likely that any of Pennsylvania’s public school teachers paid attention to it, but a brief announcement in early 2018 held some unwelcome news for their retirement savings. Public pension funds have a reputation for being conservative investors. Yet, on March 19, 2018, a terse corporate notice alerted the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System to the fact that its latest investment was anything but bland. “We hereby inform you,” the notice began, “that as a result of the...

February 24, 2021
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Take-home pay in South Africa falls due to COVID-19 lockdown

The average take-home pay in South Africa has declined compared with the same period last year as businesses struggle to cope under national lockdown rules. This is according to the latest BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI), which found that the real average salary fell by 2.4% in the past month. “The real average and overall salary paid contracted in January 2021 after coming under strain from the pandemic and level 3 lockdown, according to the latest BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI),”...

February 24, 2021
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24Feb

Italy. Pension funds pull positive returns in 2020 despite pandemic

The pension fund for management staff of oil and gas company ENI has recorded positive results for all its investment options last year. The performance of its garantito assicurativo fund stood at 1.71%, 11.28% for the last five years. Its bilanciato (balanced) fund recorded a positive performance of 3.44% in 2020, with a 13.52% for the past five years. Fopdire’s dinamico fund hit 5.20% last year, reacing a 21.70% figure for the last five years. On average annually, for the...

February 24, 2021
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24Feb

S.Korea’s state-run pension fund posts 9.7% return in 2020 – health ministry

South Korea's state-run pension fund posted a provisional annual return rate of 9.7% in 2020, Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol said on Wednesday, as the COVID-19 pandemic drove volatility in global financial markets. The National Pension Service (NPS) is the world's third-largest pension fund, with 833.7 trillion won ($750.39 billion) in assets as of the end of 2020. Last year's annual rate of return was lower than 2019's 11.3%, which was the highest on record since the National Pension Service Investment Management,...

February 24, 2021
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Puerto Rico governor rejects key deal with creditors to reduce debt due to pension cuts

Puerto Rico’s governor announced Tuesday that a federal control board reached a key deal that would reduce the U.S. territory’s overall debt by nearly 80 percent, but that his administration is rejecting it because it would require cuts to the island’s crumbling public pension system. The impasse between the governor and a board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances threatens to throw into limbo attempts to end a bankruptcy-like process for a government that six years ago declared unpayable its more...

February 24, 2021
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