April 2022

US. Amazon faces new activism from pension funds in New York over worker safety

A group of New York city and state pension funds that collectively own more than $5 billion of Amazon.com Inc. stock are urging fellow shareholders to vote against re-election of two board members for what the institutions say are failures to adequately protect worker safety. New York City’s pension fund, which represents the teachers, police department, fire department and other unions, has paired up with New York state’s pension fund and the office of the Illinois state treasurer to vote...

UK. TPR issues Contribution Notice following “inappropriate” management buy-out

Scharf AG, a German mining equipment business, has received a notice from TPR to contribute just over £2m to the pension scheme of its former subsidiary. This blog post will be relevant if you are considering corporate transactions and operate a DB pension scheme in the UK. This case shows the importance of taking specialist advice on TPR’s wide powers to protect pension savers. Background In 2013, Scharf sold a UK subsidiary business (the Dosco Group, which was a manufacturer and supplier...

China to implement private pension system with a contribution cap of about $1,800 a year: report

China will soon start a new era of "private pensions" with the imminent implementation of a relevant mechanism, according to a report by the Shanghai Securities News published on Wednesday. The new mechanism, which is characterized by policy support from the government, voluntary participation and market-oriented operations, will be an important transformation of the current pension system that has a basic pension insurance and a corporate pension. According to the report, those who contribute to the basic pension insurance for workers...

Chile. Quinto retiro: En el Senado "no están los votos" para aprobar proyecto de retiro acotado del gobierno

Chile. Quinto retiro: En el Senado “no están los votos” para aprobar proyecto de retiro acotado del gobierno

Tras la reunión con el ministro de la Secretaria General de la Presidencia, Giorgio Jackson, la senadora Alejandra Sepúlveda (FRVS) reconoció que "no queremos más desilusiones". La posibilidad del quinto retiro de ahorros previsionales tuvo un doble portazo en la jornada del lunes pasado. Los diputados rechazaron el proyecto de los parlamentarios para solicitar el 10% de esos recursos. Pero no fue todo. La Cámara también impidió el avance de la moción del Ejecutivo con miras a un "retiro acotado". Este...

Colombia. Fondos, con el mismo número de pensionados de Colpensiones en 2037

Colombia. Fondos, con el mismo número de pensionados de Colpensiones en 2037

En la última década el ritmo promedio de crecimiento de los pensionados en los fondos privados colombianos es del 17,6% anual, con lo que si esta tendencia se mantiene, en 15 años, en el 2037, el Régimen de Prima Media, que administra Colpensiones, tendrá el mismo número que el del Régimen de Ahorro Individual que administran las cuatro AFP. Hay que recordar que las cuatro administradoras de pensiones privadas (Skandia, Colfondos, Protección y Porvenir) tenían al cierre del 2021 cerca...

UK. Workplace pension of £65,400 in public sector six times more than private average

The number of people saving in workplace pensions has risen slightly, with the average pension value standing at £65,400 in the public sector compared to just £10,300 in the private sector. Overall, 79% of eligible employees, or 22.6 million, were participating in a workplace pension in April 2021, up slightly from 78% in 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS said that the growth was partly explained by “increased public sector employment driven by the government's response...

Perú. Presidente del BPS: “No entiendo por qué se quejan cuando hay un aumento” de las jubilaciones

Perú. Presidente del BPS: “No entiendo por qué se quejan cuando hay un aumento” de las jubilaciones

Alfredo Cabrera afirmó que el aumento de 3% que comienza en julio permite “recuperar 100% la pérdida por inflación” El presidente del Banco de Previsión Social (BPS), Alfredo Cabrera, habló este miércoles sobre el aumento de 3% en las pasividades que se comenzará a cobrar en julio a cuenta del aumento que correspondería a fin de año. En particular se refirió a las críticas del representante de los jubilados, Sixto Amaro, que tildó la medida de “insuficiente”; a su entender...

Bahrain’s SIO announces 6% retroactive pension rise deposited

Bahrain - Social Insurance Organisation (SIO) CEO Eman Mustafa Al Murbati announced that a six per cent retroactive pension increase of retirees from January 2021 to April 2022 have been deposited in their accounts, as per the directives of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister. The directives align with reforms to the retirement and social insurance pensions. The CEO expressed her gratitude to His Majesty King Hamad for ratifying and promulgating Law No....

UK. Union threatens to sue over Uber’s failure to offer ‘sharia compliant’ pension plan for Muslim majority workforce

The gig economy workers’ union has threatened to take Uber to court over its failure to offer a “sharia compliant” pension plan for its Muslim majority workforce. The App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU) has threatened to sue Uber for failing to provide a pension offering that complies with the tenets of Islamic beliefs, after claiming that the firm’s failure to do so breaches UK equality laws. The ADCU called on Uber to take action within the next 14 days to...

Retiro AFP: “Congresistas peruanos deben ser igual de responsables que diputados chilenos”

Retiro AFP: “Congresistas peruanos deben ser igual de responsables que diputados chilenos”

Luego de que la Cámara de Diputados de Chile rechazara un quinto retiro de fondos de afiliados a las AFP por las implicancias que conlleva para la economía y las familias del vecino país del sur, el exministro de Economía, David Tuesta, manifestó que la clase política chilena muestra mayor responsabilidad que Perú. En efecto, la noche del lunes 18 de abril se enviaron al archivo dos proyectos de retiros de fondos de pensiones en Chile. Uno proponía el retiro...