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11MayMay 11, 2022

US. Companies Race to Offload Pension Risk as Market Volatility Rises

The market for pension risk transfers is booming. In the first quarter of 2022, U.S. pension risk transfers reached $5.5 billion in total market volume, marking its largest quarter to date, according to Legal & General Retirement America’s pension risk transfer monitor. A PRT deal happens when a retirement provider — usually a corporate pension plan sponsor — unloads a portion of (or all) of its liabilities to an insurance company. Beth Ashmore, managing director of retirement at Willis Towers Watson,...

May 11, 2022

News2022, Pension Management, Risk, US

10MayMay 10, 2022

US. The Impact Of Government Retirement Requirements On Small-Business Owners

Retirement funds in America accumulate mainly through employer-sponsored plans including 401(k) accounts. As of 2021, 68% of private industry workers had access to this type of plan. However, while an exact number is not known, in 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that only 41% of those with access to a 401(k) contributed to it. As a response to this issue, a number of states have passed retirement mandates requiring businesses to offer their employees a retirement savings plan. While...

May 10, 2022

News2022, Gender Gap, UK

10MayMay 10, 2022

“Todo el mundo prefiere gastarse la plata hoy y no dejar ahorros clave para la vejez”

Guillermo Arthur, presidente de la Fiap, dijo que los sistemas de pensiones han aportado hasta 12% al crecimiento del PIB de algunos países Chile y Perú fueron dos países que las últimas semanas tuvieron el tema pensional en la agenda por el hecho de estar en medio de retiros masivos extraordinarios de los fondos privados o AFP. Leer también Congreso de Perú aprueba nuevo retiro anticipado de fondos de pensiones Por eso mismo, Guillermo Arthur, presidente de la Federación Internacional de Administradoras...

May 10, 2022

Noticias2022, América Latina, Reforma de Pensiones, Retiro de Fondos

10MayMay 10, 2022

Kenya. Reform laws on pensions to spur growth in savings

Whilst the Kenyan pension sector is the biggest in the region, we are yet to exploit its full potential as the penetration rate remains just about 20 per cent of the working class in both formal and informal sectors. Apart from the mention of the registration of The Kenya National Entrepreneurs Savings Trust (KNEST) during the 2022/2023 budget, a government-backed pension scheme for informal workers, there were no other proposals directed towards accelerating the development of the pension sector. There is...

May 10, 2022

News2022, Coverage, Informal Sector, Kenya

10MayMay 10, 2022

República Dominicana. Experto considera inviables propuesta de eliminar AFPs y ARS

El autor de la Ley 87-01 que creó el Sistema Dominicano de la Seguridad Social, economista Arismendi Díaz Santana, calificó de extremista e inviable las propuestas sobre la eliminación de las Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP) y las Administradoras de Riesgos de Salud (ARS). Así mismo, consideró como radical dicha posición la cual según explicó se extrapola a los años de la «Guerra Fría» ya que no son planteamientos viables ni razonables. «De manera que los planteamientos que en ese...

May 10, 2022

Noticias2022, Administración de Pensiones, Reforma de Pensiones, República Dominicana

10MayMay 10, 2022

More tax for thousands of retirees in South Africa

Thousands of retirees will find lower-than-expected pensions in their bank accounts at the end of this month owing to higher tax deductions. Thousands more already had this experience at the end of last month. This is as a result of administrators implementing tax directives issued by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in an attempt to ensure the correct tax is collected upfront from retirees who receive more than one pension or a pension and salary income, said consumer financial...

May 10, 2022

News2022, South Africa, Taxation

10MayMay 10, 2022

UK. FCA needs more crypto experience, expert warns

The FCA needs more experience with crypto in order to understand the asset class fully, an expert has warned. Mark Aruliah, senior policy adviser at blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, who spent a number of years as a technical specialist at the FCA, said he doesn’t see any strong advantages in being in the UK as a crypto firm. “I’m not saying the UK regulator is in a positive or negative position, I think the jury is out for me,” he said. Speaking...

May 10, 2022

News2022, Cryptocurrencies, Regulation, UK

10MayMay 10, 2022

Nigeria. Pension fund assets now worth N13.88tr

Pension fund assets grew by N453.8 billion to a historic N13.88 trillion in the first of quarter of the year ended March 2022 (Q1 2022), and assets under management rose 3.38 per cent above N13.4 billion in December 2021. Data compiled by the National Pension Commission (PenCom) also shows that 12,336 Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) contributors switched their Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs) between PFAs in Q1 2022. This is 4.2 per cent lower than the 12,874 who switched in Q4 2021...

May 10, 2022

News2022, Investment, Nigeria, Pension Management

09MayMay 9, 2022

México. Consar flexibiliza reglas de inversión de los fondos mutuos

El Comité de Inversión podrá determinar invertir un porcentaje superior considerando criterios de desempeño del fondo. La Comisión Nacional del Sistema del Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar) informó a través del Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF) que las Afores podrán invertir más de 35% de sus activos netos en acciones de empresas mexicanas. Leer también México. Afores tienen invertido 80,953 millones de pesos en el sector eléctrico “El Comité de Inversión podrá autorizar porcentajes de participación superiores a 35% de los...

May 9, 2022

Noticias2022, Inversión, Mexico, Regulación

09MayMay 9, 2022

Half of older women fear having to work beyond UK state pension age – study

Half of older women fear they will have to keep working beyond the state pension age in order to make ends meet, according to research. As many as 53% of women aged 45 and over surveyed by the older worker advice website Workingwise.co.uk said they were concerned that their pension would not be enough for them to be financially independent in later life. The study, carried out to investigate women’s economic situation as they approach retirement, exposes the lasting impact that...

May 9, 2022

News2022, Gender Gap, UK

May 2022