March 2020

10Mar

PEPPs unlikely to survive after closer look by EU regulators

Money managers and consultants say that voluntary pan-European personal pension products could be dead on arrival with the watchdog European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority taking a tougher approach to its supervision. Read also ​Swedish Pensions Agency sees need for new pension savings scheme The European Commission launched PEPPs in 2019 to simplify retirement saving for self-employed and mobile workers seeking employment across the European Union. Through a portable cross-border plan design for individuals, a PEPP was developed to help...

March 10, 2020
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January 2020

13Jan

Nigerian Governors should publish payment details of their pensions since 1999, SERAP ask court

Nigeria’s Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the 36 state governors in Nigeria to “publish details and breakdown of payment of pensions to each of the former governors and other ex-officials, and the names and number of ex-governors and other officials receiving pensions under their respective State pension laws between 1999 and 2019.” Read Also Nigeria’s pension industry squeezed as risk outlook for banks worsens In the suit filed...

January 13, 2020
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December 2019

11Dec

MySuper Product Heatmap

By APRA The MySuper Product Heatmap provides assessments of the performance of every MySuper superannuation product. The heatmap provides stakeholders with transparency on the outcomes being delivered by all trustees providing MySuper products. It is designed to lift industry practices and enhance member outcomes by publicly identifying which MySuper products are underperforming and the areas they need to improve. It uses a graduating colour scheme to provide credible, clear and comparable insights into MySuper products across three areas: investment performance, fees...

December 11, 2019
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November 2019

22Nov

Chile. Super de Pensiones intensifica monitoreo sobre las AFP ante impacto en rentabilidad por crisis social

La Superintendencia de Pensiones (SP) informó este miércoles que ha intensificado las actividades de monitoreo habituales que realiza sobre la gestión de las administradoras de fondos de pensiones, dada la actual coyuntura y sus efectos sobre el comportamiento del mercado financiero local. Esto ha generado un aumento en la volatilidad de los precios de los instrumentos financieros y del tipo de cambio, lo que ha impactado la rentabilidad de corto plazo de los fondos de pensiones, precisó el organismo....

November 22, 2019
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13Nov

UK. Ex-charity head admits defrauding disabled workers’ pension scheme

The former head of a charity faces a substantial prison sentence after admitting to defrauding a pension scheme for workers with disabilities and using the money to buy houses in England and France. Patrick McLarry, 71, took more than £250,000 from the pension scheme of Yateley Industries for the Disabled and used it to buy homes for himself and his wife and pay off a debt over a pub lease. The Pensions Regulator (TPR), which brought the prosecution, said...

November 13, 2019
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04Nov

Stewardship in the UK – The 2019 Draft Stewardship Code in Context

By Eva Micheler (London School of Economics - Law Department) The article interrogates the idea of creating a market for stewardship and identifies obstacles that stand in the way of such a market. In particular tax relief for pension investments deprives pension investors from an incentive to monitor investment and demand stewardship activity by their service providers. By granting tax relief the government has become a financial contributor to and a stakeholder in the financial services industry that services pensions....

November 4, 2019
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April 2019

22Apr

Cyber Security: 15th International Annual Conference, CNCERT 2018, Beijing, China, August 14–16, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

By Xiaochun Yun, Weiping Wen, Bo Lang, Hanbing Yan, Li Ding, Jia Li, Yu Zhou This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2018, held in Beijing, China, in August 2018. The 14 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: emergency response, mobile internet security, IoT security, cloud security, threat intelligence analysis, vulnerability, artificial intelligence security, IPv6 risk research, cybersecurity...

April 22, 2019
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17Apr

El mercado de Afores. Propuestas para reducir los riesgos de los sistemas de pensiones de México

Por Darío Ibarra Zavala Hace algunos años, la reforma del sistema de pensiones hacia uno de capitalización individual prometía ser la respuesta a los problemas del viejo sistema de reparto controlado por el sector público. Sin embargo, una regulación deficiente del mercado de Afores ha provocado una nueva serie de problemas que la política pública tendrá que resolver en los años por venir. En esta ocasión, La Red Mexicana de Competencia y Regulación presenta el análisis, diagnóstico y...

April 17, 2019
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15Apr

Accounting for Pension Liabilities

By Katrin Brugger This book presents the US pension system and its development which is described by an overview of accounting standards and regulation boards and by comparing those to the International Financial Reporting Standard. The ideas of future pension plans and payments are underlined by an analysis of the demographic development in the US. Major pension plans are presented and information on: how participation is made, what kinds of benefits arise and who is eligible for those, is given....

April 15, 2019
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March 2019

27Mar

Report on other information to be provided to prospective and current members: guidance and principles based on current practices

By EIOPA This report analyses certain national practices existing prior to the implementation of the Directive (EU) 2016/2341 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016 on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision (IORP II). It concerns disclosure documents to be given to prospective members and members in the pre-retirement and pay-out phase, as set out in Chapter III “Other information documents to be provided” within Title IV “Information to...

March 27, 2019
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