March 2021
24Mar

US. 82% say Covid affected their retirement plans

A year after the Covid-19 pandemic first ravaged the world’s societies and economies, more than 80% of Americans say the events of the past year have affected their retirement plans, according to a new study from Fidelity Investments. One-third of the more than 1,200 financial decision-makers Fidelity surveyed said it would take them two to three years to get back on track due to factors such as job loss or withdrawals from retirement savings, according to Fidelity’s 2021 State of...

March 24, 2021
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24Mar

Australia. Pensions Giant Says Treasury Yields at 3% Will Change Everything

If there’s one core view at the heart of the investment strategy at Australia’s biggest pension fund, it’s that yields still have a long way to rise. The exodus from Treasuries will continue until 10-year yields top out at 3% or so, which would be high enough to imperil economic growth and force the Federal Reserve to respond, according to Carl Astorri, head of asset allocation at AustralianSuper Pty., which manages A$210 billion ($161 billion). He has been further trimming...

March 24, 2021
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24Mar

Exclusive Coverage: CIOs Assess How Pension Fund Investors Can Be Successful After COVID-19

Strong governance, flexibility over benefit structures, clever investment strategies, and maintaining savvy relations with investment trustees are among the best practices that can help pension funds do well in the post-pandemic era. A panel of four allocators and consultants discussed solutions in CIO’s virtual conference “Inside the Minds of CIOs.” Speakers included pension investment chiefs from Maryland and New Mexico, as well as leaders from Backstop Solutions and Insight Investment. Public pensions face any number of challenges to deliver good returns....

March 24, 2021
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23Mar

Chile. Presidenta de la Asociación de AFP propone que personas con menos ahorros puedan retirarlos al jubilar

La nueva presidenta de la Asociación de AFP, Alejandra Cox, reiteró su propuesta de moverse hacia una pensión básica universal y agregó que quienes ahorren menos fondos, deberían poder recibirlos todos al momento de su jubilación. Leer también Chile. Propuesta de la presidenta de la Asociación de AFP genera ruido en el Senado En entrevista con Radio ADN, Cox afirmó que “si tuviéramos la pensión básica universal y una persona llega a la edad de pensión con cinco millones, un millón,...

March 23, 2021
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23Mar

Perú. Hay cuatro millones de personas sin ahorro jubilatorio por retiros en pandemia

Alrededor de cuatro millones de peruanos quedaron sin ahorro jubilatorio, como resultado de las medidas que posibilitaron el retiro de los fondos previsionales en el Sistema Privado de Pensiones (SPP) para afrontar la pandemia por el covid-19, informó hoy Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS). “Hubo algunas políticas públicas en el marco de la emergencia, que trataron de privilegiar el corto plazo y la situación actual, pero hoy quedan alrededor de cuatro millones de personas desprotegidas, quienes llevaron su...

March 23, 2021
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23Mar

México. Pensión universal, bazucazo electoral

Por Marco A. Mares Con cargo al erario federal el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador anunció tremendo beneficio para adultos mayores que ya reciben o que apenas recibirán la pensión universal. Evidentemente, se trata de un bazucazo electoral. El paquete de beneficios tendrá un costo de 370,000 millones de pesos por año, a partir del año 2024 para alrededor de 10.3 millones de adultos mayores.Los aumentos serán graduales y anuales. En consecuencia el presupuesto gubernamental anual pasará de 135,000 millones de pesos al...

March 23, 2021
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23Mar

ESG Disclosure Rules From Europe Challenge U.S. Fund Managers

Scores of U.S. fund managers are being forced to comply with sweeping new European rules on climate and other sustainable-finance issues, requiring them to disclose the potential harm their investments could do to the environment and society. Fund companies including Vanguard Group, BlackRock Inc. and State Street Corp. that sell investment products in the European Union come under the new rules that took effect this month, though details are still being finalized. “There are many issues to be resolved, it is...

March 23, 2021
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23Mar

UK. Pensions dashboard roll-out in 2023 ‘under threat’

The target date of 2023 for the roll-out of the pensions dashboards is under threat from a lack of clarity, the Society of Pension Professionals has warned. The lack of clarity and complexity of the dashboard roll-out is such that it might be impossible to provide some savers with a "single number" for their benefits. Read also UK. Emerging passive investing risks a new concern James Riley, president, and Paul McGlone, immediate past president, wrote to the Pensions Dashboards Programme detailing a list...

March 23, 2021
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23Mar

Lessons defined benefit plans can learn from last year

The 2020 funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit (DB) plans by assets rose only slightly as double-digit equity returns were offset by a decline to record-low discount rates, according to a proprietary analysis conducted by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The report, written by Michael Buchenholz, head of U.S. pension strategy, institutional strategy and analytics, reveals the benefits that came from rebalancing liability-driven investing (LDI) portfolios during the market volatility of last year. He first points out that...

March 23, 2021
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23Mar

US. Small employers have new federal incentives to offer worker retirement benefits

There has been a dizzying array of major legislative programs passed by Congress over the last few years that have impacted small and midsize businesses, particularly in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But one that seems to have gone under the radar — perhaps because it was passed pre-pandemic in Dec. 2019, and went into effect Jan. 1, 2020 — is the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement, or SECURE Act, which tries to help more American workers save...

March 23, 2021
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