May 2021
14May

Chileans drain $10 bln more from pension funds as pandemic drives withdrawals

Chileans flocked for a third time to withdraw money from their retirement funds this week, draining nearly $10 billion from the country’s privatized pension system in a move some billed as a lifeline amid a fierce second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Read also Chicago Boys’ Free-Market Pension Model Is Unraveling in Chile Chile’s Congress in late April approved a bill allowing citizens a third opportunity to withdraw 10% of savings held in privately held pension funds. Many Chileans have already...

May 14, 2021
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13May

US. Pension Funds Are Desperate to Cut Costs, but Consolidation Isn’t the Answer

Public pension funds that merge with their peers have historically hailed it as a smart way to cut costs and achieve economies of scale. But the strategy of consolidating funds, particularly for large ones, is not yielding the benefits it once once did, new research shows. In fact, for some funds, the economies of scale they are achieving is “rather mediocre,” according to a paper published this month by researchers Jacob Antoon Bikker and Jeroen Meringa from De Nederlandsche Bank, the...

May 13, 2021
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13May

Netherlands: Postponement of pension reforms

Last year, social partners and the Dutch government reached an agreement on pension reforms in the Netherlands. The agreement’s aims - amongst others – is to abolish defined benefit schemes and to prescribe flat rates for defined contribution schemes. It was expected that the reforms would enter into force through an accelerated legislative approval process from 1 January 2022 (with a transition period from 2022 to 2026). However, since the legislation took more time than expected to be prepared,...

May 13, 2021
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13May

US. Strong Stock Market Boosts 401(k) Investors’ Equity Exposure

A surging stock market, coupled with slow and steady trades into equities, brought 401(k) investors in April to their highest level of equity exposure since 2001, according to the Alight Solutions 401(k) index. During the month, nearly all the trading days favored equities over fixed income; four days favored fixed income funds, and 17 days favored equity funds. Also of note was the fact that April has no days of above-normal trading activity. The average net trading activity was a mere...

May 13, 2021
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12May

Nuevo proyecto en Congreso de Perú busca retiro de 100% de los fondos de las AFP

El Congreso peruano no da tregua al Sistema Privado de Pensiones (SPP). Legisladores de diversas bancadas presentaron el viernes un proyecto de ley para permitir que un grupo de afiliados a las AFP retiren la totalidad de sus fondos de pensiones. Leer también Perú. ¡Atención! Congreso aprueba por insistencia ley que permite retiro de hasta S/ 17,600 de la AFP La semana pasada el Legislativo aprobó por insistencia la disposición de hasta cuatro UIT para todos los afiliados, tanto cotizantes como...

May 12, 2021
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12May

Chile. Alejandra Cox: “Una persona que hoy día tiene 25 años, sepa que la probabilidad que pueda pensionarse a los 65, es cero”

En medio de la crisis por los retiros del 10%, las protestas en contra del sistema, y el aniversario número 40 de las administradoras de fondos de pensiones, la presidenta de la Asociación de AFP, Alejandra Cox Anwandter, dijo que la edad de jubilación en Chile debería ser más de 65 años. “Esto va a ir aumentando lentamente a través del tiempo, cosa que una persona que hoy día tiene 25 años sepa que la probabilidad de que pueda pensionarse...

May 12, 2021
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12May

Los retiros por desempleo en Afore sí se incrementaron 67% en México

Fernando Larrazabal, candidato a la gubernatura de Nuevo León, por el Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), dio el 26 de abril un panorama de los apoyos por desocupación solicitados a las administradoras de fondos para el retiro (afore) en México y lo hizo con cifras correctas. “En el último año, los retiros parciales por desempleo que hicieron las personas de su Afore, aumentaron en un 67%”. Según con reporte del último mes, esta información es verdadera. Abraham Vela Dib, titular de la...

May 12, 2021
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12May

US. In Reversal, Retirements Increased During the Pandemic

After decades in which it decreased, the retirement rate rose during the pandemic, according to the latest government data. This makes retirement one exception to the many ways that the pandemic accelerated pre-existing trends, such as toward suburbanization and online shopping. In the year since the pandemic started — the 12 months ending in March 2021 — 17.0 percent of Americans aged 55 to 64 were retired, up from 16.8 percent in the two previous years. But this is still...

May 12, 2021
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12May

Kenya. Civil servants mass departure pushes pension to Sh150bn

Mass retirement of civil servants has pushed pension payouts to more than Sh150 billion, underlining the burden of a fast-aging public service to taxpayers on the back of delays in implementing reforms in the past. The Treasury has projected the pension department will require Sh153.64 billion in the financial year starting July 2021 to honour monthly pensions claims and gratuity pay by senior citizens. Read also South Africa: Green light for infrastructure investment by retirement funds? This is a 38.24 percent jump...

May 12, 2021
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11May

Argentina aumentará un 12.12% las jubilaciones

El Gobierno de Argentina anunció este lunes que desde el mes próximo 8.3 millones de jubilados cobrarán sus pensiones con un aumento trimestral del 12.12%. Leer también Argentina. Aseguran que 5.000 jubilados y pensionados entrerrianos dejarán de pagar Ganancias Este es el segundo aumento otorgado tras la aprobación de la nueva ley de movilidad en las jubilaciones, que establece actualizaciones trimestrales en las pensiones con base en una fórmula que se determina por el índice de salarios y la recaudación impositiva. Leer...

May 11, 2021
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