August 2023
08Aug

Reforms Must Ensure Fair User Payment in Aged-Care Funding

Aged-care services will cost taxpayers more than A$35 billion this year. Treasurer Jim Chalmers argues it's one of the government's biggest ongoing funding challenges. The last intergenerational report, which looked out over the next 40 years, came to the same conclusion. In a search for answers, the government has set up an aged-care taskforce to report on how aged care should be funded, and by whom. Its report is due by the end of the year. The aged-care funding system is...

August 8, 2023
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July 2023
31Jul

Labour Minister talks pension reform, new pay system in budgetary sector with EC

Labor Minister Simona Bucura-Oprescu held, on July 27, a series of discussions with officials and experts of SG Recover within the European Commission DG ECFIN, focused on completing the reforms aimed at the public pension system and wages in the budgetary sector as outlined in the PNRR. The outcome, as announced by the minister in a Facebook post, indicates an early stage of the process of sketching the reforms. The sides agreed “to find the best version of reform” in order to help...

July 31, 2023
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24Jul

UK. Insurance and pensions investment changes are positive steps

The refresh of the Solvency II rules will make certain assets more attractive to insurers. This includes infrastructure assets in their construction phase and higher risk assets common in “greenfield” projects that typically bear high technological and development risks. The research outlines the opportunities and potential implementation challenges of broadening the matching adjustment (MA) asset eligibility criteria. Firms will need to focus on key aspects of risk management to protect policyholder security, such as maintenance of the matching between asset...

July 24, 2023
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23Jul

China pensions reform: Winning strategies for global asset managers amid evolution in retirement market

By Asifma Major reforms to the Chinese Mainland’s pensions system are creating new opportunities for asset managers. This report, jointly authored by KPMG China and ASIFMA, explores the background to China’s evolving three-pillar pensions system and the demographic factors that necessitated the current reforms, and shares insights from market players on the challenges as well as the opportunities. Pillars 2 and 3 of the pensions assets industry in China could grow to as much as 15-21 trillion RMB by 2030 under...

July 23, 2023
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21Jul

Reforming against the demographic clock

By Allianz Research  Allianz launched the second edition of its Global Pension Report, which analyzes 75 pension systems around the globe using its proprietary Allianz Pension Index (API). The index consists of three pillars: Analysis of basic demographic and fiscal conditions as well as determination of the sustainability (e.g. funding and contribution periods) and adequacy (e.g. degree of diffusion and pension level) of the pension system. A total of 40 parameters are considered, with values ranging from 1 (very good)...

July 21, 2023
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21Jul

Pension Reform, Incentives to Retire and Retirement Behavior: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Microdata

By Lisa Laun & Mårten Palme This paper investigates to what extent the 1998 reform of Sweden’s public old-age pension system contributed to the increase in extensive margin labor supply among older workers seen in the country in recent decades. We use a large data set containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991–2012. The data show that the reform changed the incentives to remain in the labor force...

July 21, 2023
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18Jul

Pension reform for St Vincent and the Grenadines

St Vincent and the Grenadines Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves has warned that reform to the pension and benefit structure of the National Insurance Services (NIS) can begin as early as next year. Gonsalves wa briefing lawmakers on the finding of the 11th actuarial review of the National Insurance Services (NIS) and an independent analysis of the actuarial review, conducted by the World Bank’s Reserve Advisory and Management Partnership (RAMP). The Finance Minister told Parliament that according to the report, NIS reserves...

July 18, 2023
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12Jul

Czech Republic. Government pension reform now before final vote

A Czech government bill to slow the indexation of old-age pensions and tighten the rules for early retirement now stands before its third reading after a vote in the lower house on Tuesday. The vote followed a debate lasting over eight hours and concluded late in the evening. MPs will vote on the matter for a final time next week at the earliest. The minister of social affairs, Marian Jurečka, said on Tuesday that the move was necessary to maintain the...

July 12, 2023
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11Jul

Belgian government agrees on pension reform to receive EU recovery funds

The Belgian government agreed on pension reform on Monday, paving the way for the long-awaited release of part of the EU recovery funds the European Commission had tied to the reform. On Monday, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD/Renew Europe) and Pensions Minister Karine Lalieux (PS/S&D) announced the long-awaited agreement on Twitter, which completes the one reached a year ago and aims to ensure the pension system’s financial sustainability amid an ageing population. According to the government, various measures will...

July 11, 2023
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07Jul

Ecuador´s FUT to take to the streets opposing new pension reform

FUT President José Villavicencio warned his Front will take to the streets whether the Guillermo Lasso administration decides to support and OK suggestions by the commission in charge of looking for solutions to make the retirement funds of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) more sustainable. Whether Lasso´s administration decides to move forward with these new reforms it will be the same scenario as in France, Villavicencio stressed at a press briefing. He pointed out that Lasso’s administration, which has not...

July 7, 2023
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