October 2021
26Oct

Esta herramienta de CONSAR ayuda a identificar asesores fraudulentos

Los agentes promotores son figuras que lo auxilian para realizar trámites en su afore, sin embargo existen casos en los que personas defraudadoras fingen ser promotores, corriendo el riesgo de ser una víctima de fraude. ¿Cómo identificar a los promotores? La Comisión Nacional del Sistema del Ahorro cuenta con una herramienta que le permite saberlo. Se trata del Sistema de Información de Agentes Promotores, en el cual usted tiene la posibilidad de consultar de forma gratuita para saber si la persona...

October 26, 2021
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26Oct

COVID caused more than 3 million Americans to retire early, a new Fed analysis finds

More than 3 million Americans decided to retire earlier than they would have due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis. Miguel Faria E Castro, a senior economist at the St. Louis Fed, compared retirees to the baby-boomer trend to distinguish between “normal” and “excess” retirements. As of August, he found, there were slightly over 3 million excess retirements, which is more than half of the 5.25 million people who have left the labor force since the beginning...

October 26, 2021
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26Oct

UK. Pension funds invest £128 billion in fossil fuel businesses, according to new information.

Pension funds should use their huge financial power to help the fight against climate change, a Cabinet minister will say tomorrow. In a speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey is to argue the multi-trillion pound retirement savings across the world can become a global “superpower” in the battle for a greener planet. Her address will coincide with the Government setting out plans to align UK pension rules with the 2015 Paris Accord goal to...

October 26, 2021
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26Oct

Dutch pension giant spurns fossil fuels as funds shift before COP26

Dutch pension fund ABP will divest 15 billion euros ($17.5 billion) of investments in fossil fuel producers by 2023, it said on Tuesday, as many of the world's biggest investors set out new climate policies ahead of next week's COP26 summit. Read also UK pension schemes are funding more emissions than the entire UK’s carbon footprint With policymakers gearing up for the talks aimed at accelerating action on global warming, financial firms from across the world are announcing new steps to...

October 26, 2021
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26Oct

Canada. LifeWorks releases the results of its Performance Universe of Pension Managers’ Pooled Funds

LifeWorks (TSX: LWRK) has released the results of its Performance Universe of Pension Managers’ Pooled Funds for the third quarter of 2021. Read also UK. FCA creates LTAF, a new investment fund for pension schemes and specialized investors According to the report, in the third quarter of 2021, diversified pooled fund managers posted a median return of 0.7 per cent before management fees and 8.0 per cent since the beginning of the year. Read also Pandemic Offers This Silver Lining For Retirement...

October 26, 2021
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25Oct

Pensiones y cuidado no remunerado: el camino a la igualdad en América Latina

El cuidado y la crianza de los hijas e hijas es un trabajo esencial para sostener la vida y para reproducir la fuerza de trabajo. Y sin embargo no se reconoce el valor de las tareas de cuidado. Leer también El drama de jubilarse: el sistema previsional argentino es el segundo peor del mundo Pero la situación está cambiando. Lentamente aparecen políticas de compensación en Europa y América Latina que reivindican los derechos económicos de quien cuida, una labor realizada mayoritariamente...

October 25, 2021
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25Oct

República Dominicana. Las AFP no incluyen sus comisiones en propuestas para mejorar el sistema de pensiones

Ninguna de las 25 propuestas presentadas la semana pasada por la Asociación Dominicana de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (Adafp) toca las comisiones que reciben estas empresas. Arismendi Díaz Santana, quien trabajó en el diseño del Sistema Dominicano de Seguridad Social, considera que eso “le resta credibilidad” a las sugerencias planteadas para mejorar el sistema. Díaz, quien fue el primer gerente del Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Social, entiende que la Adafp “formula propuestas interesantes”, como equilibrar la tasa de retorno...

October 25, 2021
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25Oct

UK. FCA creates LTAF, a new investment fund for pension schemes and specialized investors

Sophisticated investors and pension funds are among those who will have access to new types of investment opportunities following changes made by the FCA. The FCA has confirmed that it will be taking forward proposals to create a new type of open-ended authorised investment fund which will help support investment in assets like infrastructure and private equity. Investment in these assets has the potential to generate better returns for investors, including those saving for retirement in defined contribution (DC) pension...

October 25, 2021
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25Oct

Ghana. Tier-3 Pension Scheme: Labour Minister seeks support to woo informal sector

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has called on traditional rulers to join hands with the new Tier-3 Pension Scheme by encouraging people in the informal sector to contribute to the scheme. That, he said, would enable people in the informal sector to enjoy voluntary personal pension payments to cater for their needs at old age. He said chiefs, as opinion leaders, had the clout to influence informal sector workers to take vital decisions such as...

October 25, 2021
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25Oct

Israel’s Holocaust survivors to be supplemented NIS 20 million

The government has secured an extra NIS 20 million in annual payments for Holocaust survivors living in Israel following negotiations with the German Finance Ministry. The cabinet approved the agreement on Sunday. Some 3,700 Holocaust survivors who receive pensions from the German government will be eligible for the increased payments. The negotiations were conducted by the Social Equality and Pensioners Ministry and the Authority for the Rights of Holocaust Survivors. All those eligible for German pensions will receive an extra €100...

October 25, 2021
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