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19AprApril 19, 2023

Global Pension Funds Fall Short of Private Equity Targets in Q1

Pension funds worldwide fell slightly short of meeting their private equity allocation targets in the year’s first quarter due to uncertain macroeconomic conditions affecting institutional investment decisions, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Among 365 global pension funds, the median allocation to private equity was $276 million, compared with a median target allocation of $280 million, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence and Preqin. The under allocation was attributed to a relative dearth of private equity and venture capital fund...

April 19, 2023

NewsInvestment, Pension Management

19AprApril 19, 2023

Hong Kong pensions body slams The Wall Street Journal over claim that BNO passport holders’ assets held ‘hostage’

Hong Kong’s pensions fund authority has demanded that American newspaper The Wall Street Journal retract “misinformation” in an op-ed about holders of British National Overseas (BNO) passports’ access to their pensions. The op-ed, titled “Hong Kong’s Hostage Pensions,” was published by the paper’s editorial board last Friday. It discussed a Mandatory Provident Fund policy that denies pension payouts to emigrants using BNO passports as evidence of early withdrawal of funds. Anyone who permanently leaves the city is normally entitled to make...

April 19, 2023

NewsHong Kong, Pension Payout

19AprApril 19, 2023

UK. ‘The current pensions system is not fit for purpose’

By Stephanie Hawthorne The death knell for defined benefit pension provision has been tolled many times, even if the final 'coffin nail’ has not quite yet been hammered into its lid. Millions of ordinary workers, from journalists, railway workers to shop assistants in WH Smith, enjoyed DB pensions without appreciating just how good a perk they were, until it was almost too late. What a failure in communications. Sadly, we have almost reached a tipping point when there will be no return...

April 19, 2023

News, OP Ed, Op-EdDefined Benefit, System sustainability, UK

19AprApril 19, 2023

India to overtake China as world’s most populous country this year

India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous country, according to new UN data, marking a historic crossover moment for the two Asian rivals that are set to shape business and world affairs in years to come. According to the UN Population Fund’s World Population Dashboard, released on Wednesday, India’s population has surpassed 1.428bn, just overtaking China’s more than 1.425bn people. The update in population estimates came as the world body’s main agency that tracks demographic trends, the UNFPA, released...

April 19, 2023

NewsChina, India, Labor Market

18AprApril 18, 2023

México. Cuentas no reconocidas en las afores siguen en 18 millones: Consar

Los datos del primer trimestre del 2023 detallan que las cuentas no reconocidas por los trabajadores en el Sistema del Ahorro para Retiro (SAR), también nombradas cuentas asignadas, acumularon cuatro años con disminuciones anuales en los tres primeros meses, de acuerdo con información de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema del Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar). Sin embargo, desde hace tres años el número de cuentas no reconocidas en las administradoras de fondos para el retiro (afores) sigue en el nivel...

April 18, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasMexico, Regulación

18AprApril 18, 2023

Argentina. Inflación: jubilación, salarios y aumentos a futuro

Marcelo Capello, economista y jefe en IERAL, analizó en CNN Radio el panorama inflacionario y su relación con las jubilaciones y los salarios en el país: "Los jubilados y asalariados desde 2018 que casi todos los años vieron caer su haber real". "Si bien es un año electoral, donde habrá presiones por aumentos salariales, la recesión que se viene por la sequía y por la inercia que ya traía la economía va a ser difícil que los salarios alcancen a...

April 18, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasArgentina, Inflación

18AprApril 18, 2023

Chile. Comisión de Constitución pondrá en tabla proyecto que permite retiro total de fondos AFP

El diputado Gaspar Rivas (PDG) anunció que, a partir de mañana martes 18 de abril, la Comisión de Constitución, Legislación, Justicia y Reglamento de la Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados pondrá en tabla el proyecto de su autoría que permite el retiro de hasta el 100% de los fondos previsionales. Cabe recordar que la discusión se retoma tras el rechazo del quinto retiro del 10% que fue sometido a votación, y posteriormente rechazado, en abril de 2022. A fin de contribuir...

April 18, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasChile, Retiro de Fondos

18AprApril 18, 2023

Perú. Ley de pensión mínima a afiliados a AFP: piden a Ejecutivo que reglamente la norma

La congresista de Podemos Perú, Digna Calle, envió un oficio dirigido al presidente del Consejo de Ministros, Alberto Otárola, para recordarle que se venció el plazo para la publicación del reglamento de la Ley n.º 31670 que crea las pensiones mínimas para los afiliados a las Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP). Un buen número de afiliados a las AFP espera que se apruebe un nuevo proyecto para retirar dinero de su fondo de jubilación. “Tengo el agrado de dirigirme a...

April 18, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasPerú, Regulación

18AprApril 18, 2023

French President Macron says he hears people’s anger but insists pension change was needed

French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that he heard people’s anger over raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, but insisted that it was needed to keep the pension system afloat as the population ages. In many cities, opponents to the pension law took to the streets to bang pots and pans during Macron’s televised address to the nation, with the rallying cry: “Macron won’t listen to us? We won’t listen to him!” In Paris, the gatherings quickly turned into...

April 18, 2023

NewsFrance, Pension Reform, Retirement Age

18AprApril 18, 2023

Do state and local pension plans really need to be fully funded?

The Center for Retirement Research’s most recent undefined makes a strong case for shifting the focus of fiscal sustainability for state and local pension plans from full funding to stabilizing their pension debt as a share of the economy. While full funding is tidy in the sense that, if the pension were to shut down, assets would be available to pay full benefits, it involves a significant opportunity cost in terms of forgoing public investment in infrastructure and education. To assess...

April 18, 2023

NewsFunding, US

April 2023