November 2022
15Nov

U.S. Pension Funding Ratios Continue to Increase

Better equity performance and higher interest rates in October contribute to pensions nearing full funding. Aon’s Pension Risk Tracker in October reached its highest funded status level since its’ inception in 2011, as the aggregate pension funded status of S&P 500 companies increased to 97.2%. from 93.8% in September. Aon reports that pension asset returned 0.8% in October. The Aon report was one of several, released since the end of October, that showed improvements. The month-end 10-yr Treasury rate increased 27 basis...

November 15, 2022
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October 2022
13Oct

US. Funding Status of Pensions Increases Marginally Despite Equity Market Downturn

Corporate pension funding ratio improves to best rate of the year in September despite 2022’s worst month of market losses Rising rates in September contributed to higher overall funded ratio for corporate pension funds. Equities continued their year-long slump with the Nasdaq trading down over 10% and S&P 500 trading down 9.6% on the month. The dynamic led to at least two pension consultants finding that U.S. corporate pension funding levels moved above 100% in September as an increase in the...

October 13, 2022
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11Oct

Ireland. Government Pushes Ahead With Pension Auto Enrolment

The government has approved the details of its new pension auto-enrolment scheme in what Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys described as a "generational reform" of the Irish pensions system. The General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System has now been referred to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection for pre-legislative scrutiny. If passed into law, the scheme will require workers to pay into a voluntary workplace pension scheme, co-funded by their employer and the state on an...

October 11, 2022
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10Oct

Abu Dhabi Pension Agency: Employers are obligated to register citizens within 10 working days of their joining the service

By The Bharat The Abu Dhabi Pension Fund has called on the employers registered with it not to delay in registering the new employees who have joined them. He stressed that registering and subscribing to the fund on behalf of citizens working in the public and private sectors is a mandatory procedure for all employers that have their headquarters in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, within the framework of complying with the requirements of the fund and the retirement law...

October 10, 2022
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07Oct

UK Pension Fund Near-Collapse Is A Warning For America’s Pensions

Autor: Edward Siedle Around the world, there are millions of workers and retirees who are counting upon pensions set up by corporations and governments to provide for their retirement security. These individuals believe they have been “promised” certain benefits and that promises made will be kept. Unfortunately, many pensions are severely underfunded, i.e., not enough money has been set-aside to pay benefits promised. Further, the money in these pensions is all-too-often grossly mismanaged—what I refer to as “gross malpractice generally practiced.” That’s...

October 7, 2022
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06Oct

Ghana. Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme set to take off this month

The much-awaited rollout of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme is set to commence this month, the Board Chairman of COCOBOD, Mr Peter Mac Manu has announced. According to him, the trustees and implementers of the scheme would be rolling out from district to district to register cocoa farmers onto the scheme to enjoy the pension scheme’s benefit. Mr Mac Menu was speaking at this year’s cocoa day grand durbar which also coincided with the COCOBOD 75th anniversary on the theme “COCOBOD...

October 6, 2022
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03Oct

Corporate pension plans have staying power

While many U.S. corporate defined benefit plan sponsors have frozen their plans to benefit accruals or transferred their liabilities to insurance companies, they still represent hundreds of billions of dollars of investible assets and reports of their demise are premature, experts say. It was 10 years ago in June that General Motors Co. stunned the institutional investing industry when the automaker announced a $29 billion pension buyout deal with Prudential Insurance Co. of America. The event seemingly portended seismic implications for...

October 3, 2022
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September 2022
08Sep

US. Corporate pension funding remains stable in August despite fall in assets

U.S. corporate pension plan funding ratios rose slightly in August, according to two new reports, while a third report estimates ratios fell during the month. Legal & General Investment Management America in its report estimated the average funding ratio of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan rose to 95.6% as of Aug. 31 from 95% a month earlier. LGIMA in its latest Pension Solutions Monitor said the funding ratio improved due to an decrease in liabilities offsetting a month of weak...

September 8, 2022
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08Sep

Jamaica. JMEA members to access VM pension scheme, special offerings

VM Pensions Management Limited has inked a deal which will see the business supporting member companies and employees of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) get access to an approved retirement scheme (ARS) and a suite of other specially curated offerings. Through the partnership, the association’s members will benefit from enrollment in an affordable pension scheme, with premiums starting as low as $1,000; reduced rates and special access to corporate financing solutions, as well as financial coaching for companies...

September 8, 2022
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02Sep

UK pension funds lose case to block RPI inflation change

A British court on Thursday rejected an application from major pension funds to overturn authorities' plans to reform the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation. "The application for judicial review is dismissed," London's High Court of Justice said in its judgment. The pension funds, including those of BT (BT.L), Marks and Spencer (MKS.L) and Ford (F.N), had brought the case for judicial review against the UK Statistics Authority regulator and Britain's finance minister. RPI, which dates back to the 1940s and...

September 2, 2022
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