September 2021

UK. Draft CDC regulations hampered by poor definitions, industry warns

The government’s consultation into draft regulations governing collective defined contribution schemes requires more work on definitions if these pension funds are to be properly implemented, with the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association warning it could create a “back door” for unscrupulous employers. In a CDC scheme, contribution rates for employers and employees are set in advance, and members pool investment and longevity risk. These pension funds provide income in retirement, though the rate of increase varies and pension reductions are...

Can Insurers Be a Pension Safety Net?

Pensions are complicated enough without employers passing the buck onto someone else, but increasingly, that is what's happening. In exchange for buying a group annuity, employers are transferring their pension-paying obligations to life insurance companies, who pay the pension. The practice, known as pension risk transfer or de-risking, has implications for how pensions are protected and whether the payments are off limits to creditors. About 33 million Americans still participate in private pension plans, according to the federal Pension...

US. Suburban residents risk losing homes over rising pension costs

By Amy Korte Patricia Hill grew up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood dreaming of one day owning a home. She and her husband accomplished that dream in 2003 when they moved to the suburb of Matteson to raise their two daughters. They bought a two-story home in a quiet neighborhood for $315,000. Her property taxes were $7,800 for 2004. But Hill’s home is now worth less than she paid for it back in ’03. Meanwhile, her property taxes have done anything...

Avanza en Chile cuarto proyecto para retirar pensiones

El Parlamento chileno aprobó este miércoles (01.09.2021) iniciar la discusión de un polémico proyecto para retirar un 10 por ciento de los fondos de pensiones por cuarta vez desde el inicio de la pandemia, una iniciativa que todavía debe discutirse y aprobarse en los plenos de ambas cámaras para ser ley. Por siete votos a favor y seis en contra, la Comisión de Constitución de la Cámara de los Diputados aprobó la medida que busca extraer un décimo de los...

Gobierno y Chile Podemos+ buscan cuadrar al sector para rechazar proyectos de cuarto retiro de fondos

Son días clave para el futuro de un eventual cuarto retiro de fondos provisionales, ya que este miércoles 1 de septiembre la comisión de Constitución de la Cámara, votará en general los distintos proyectos que se han impulsado en torno a esta materia. Leer también Cepal: Agote de efecto rebote llevaría a que Chile crezca 3,2% en 2022 tras avance de 9,2% este año Pese a que la semana pasada el conglomerado de Chile Podemos+ pudo cuadrarse en el Senado para...

Panamá. Conato presentará reformas para la CSS

El Consejo Nacional de Trabajadores Organizados (Conato) decidió presentar sus propuestas para modificar la ley orgánica de la Caja de Seguro Social (CSS). Y lo hará ajeno al Diálogo Nacional por la CSS, del cual se retiró el pasado 15 de marzo, decisión que fue ratificada por su consejo de delegados a finales de junio. El anteproyecto será entregado a la Asamblea Nacional el miércoles 22 de septiembre, luego de una marcha que realizarán los integrantes de las diferentes centrales de...

Cepal: Agote de efecto rebote llevaría a que Chile crezca 3,2% en 2022 tras avance de 9,2% este año

De acuerdo a los cálculos de la Cepal, el crecimiento de 5,9% que se estima para Sudamérica se explica en un 70% por el efecto estadístico de la contracción económica de 2020 y solo el restante 30% es por “crecimiento genuino”. De esta manera la región retomaría el bajo crecimiento que la caracterizaba previo a la pandemia, marcando una expansión de 2,6%. Lamentablemente, Chile no estará ajeno a ese fenómeno. Según el Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe...

US. Many Teacher Pension Plans Get Failing Grade: New Report

Roughly three-quarters of states offer teachers a retirement plan that isn’t making the grade, according to a ranking released Tuesday. Just 13 states received either a B or a C grade overall in Bellwether Education Partner’s latest look at teacher retirement plans. None received an A. South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Utah and New York scored closest, topping the nonprofit organization’s new ranking. Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Kentucky New Jersey and Illinois rounded out the bottom five states. Most teachers are enrolled in a defined-benefit...

Sustainability Gains In Asset Management, Led By Marketing

Asset managers are paying more attention to ESG — environmental, social and governance — concerns, according to a recent report from Northern Trust. “While many European markets have long made ESG a focus in their investment strategies, other mature markets in parts of North America and Asia have had a less straightforward approach,” Northern Trust reported, although recently Canadian asset managers have moved ahead of the U.S. “Alongside the pandemic, the summer of 2020 brought a global reckoning with racism, originating...

UK’s biggest pension scheme set to screen investments based on workforce diversity

The UK’s largest workplace pension scheme Nest has joined forces with the Church of England Pension Board to sign up to a new charter committing them to screen their investments taking account of gender and ethnicity diversity. It marks a significant step towards tackling the asset management industry’s serial image problem, namely, that they’re all male, pale and stale. A study run by investment data firm reveal more funds in the UK are run by men called Dave than by women. Now...