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15NovNovember 15, 2024

How Mexico’s reformed pension system is improving workers’ retirement security

Earlier this year, Mexico’s senate approved the creation of a new pension fund to help provide more retirement security for low-income citizens. The reform aims to ensure pensioners receive 100 per cent of their last monthly salary up to roughly 16,777 Mexican pesos (US$975), which is the average monthly wage for workers affiliated with the Mexican Social Security Institute. “Congress approved this change to the pension system, which basically established a new welfare pension fund,” says Pedro Trejo, retirement director at...

November 15, 2024

NewsMexico, Pension Reform, Replacement Rate

15NovNovember 15, 2024

US. October Sees Gain in Corporate Pension Funded Status

An increase in discount rates helped corporate pensions by offsetting both a decline in asset values and weak investment returns. The funded ratios of corporate pension plans in the U.S. mostly improved in October, according to numerous trackers, continuing a near-perfect streak of month-over-month funded status improvement for more than a year. Despite weaker investment returns, most trackers found that declines in asset values were offset by increases in the discount rates used to value pension liabilities. According to Mercer,...

November 15, 2024

NewsFunding, Occupational Pensions, US

15NovNovember 15, 2024

UK. What will Rachel Reeves’s retirement scheme changes mean for pensions?

The chancellor has announced plans to merge local government retirement schemes into eight Canada-style ‘megafunds’ Rachel Reeves has announced plans to merge local government retirement schemes into eight Canada-style “megafunds” in what the Treasury claims will be part of the biggest reform of the UK pension market in decades. So what will the changes, announced as part of the chancellor’s inaugural Mansion House speech on Thursday, actually mean for UK pensions and what can they achieve? What is Reeves planning? The chancellor plans...

November 15, 2024

NewsInvestment, Pension Reform, UK

14NovNovember 14, 2024

Chile. Reforma previsional: senadores de la Comisión de Trabajo aprueban ad referéndum cambio de multifondos a fondos generacionales

Los senadores de la Comisión de Trabajo este miércoles continuaron analizando la reforma previsional y terminaron por aprobar de manera ad referéndum la propuesta del gobierno que plantea pasar del actual sistema de multifondos, donde las personas pueden elegir entre cinco alternativas -desde el A, la más riesgosa; hasta el E, menos riesgoso-, hacia un esquema de fondos generacionales (Target Date Funds), sobre los cuales las personas no podrán tomar decisiones de cambios. Este es un esquema donde cada fondo...

November 14, 2024

NoticiasAdministración de Pensiones, Chile, Inversión

14NovNovember 14, 2024

Reino Unido promoverá megafondos de pensiones para movilizar inversión en infraestructuras

La ministra británica de Economía, Rachel Reeves, anunciará el jueves una reforma del mercado de las pensiones en el Reino Unido a fin de promover su consolidación en megafondos que puedan movilizar más capital para la inversión en infraestructuras. Reeves detallará su propuesta en su primer discurso anual en el palacete de Mansion House ante representantes de la City (el distrito financiero de Londres), cuando afirmará que esa consolidación podría liberar unos 80.000 millones de libras (96.232 millones de euros,...

November 14, 2024

NoticiasInversión, Reforma de Pensiones, UK

14NovNovember 14, 2024

Perú. SBS propone medidas para promover la oferta de fondos para aportes voluntarios

El objetivo del proyecto es que los afiliados puedan acceder libremente a nuevos fondos para aportes voluntarios ofertados de forma directa por las AFP, pudiendo elegir uno o más tipos de fondos que estas ofrezcan. La Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS), con la finalidad de promover el ahorro voluntario en el Sistema Privado de Pensiones (SPP), publicó un proyecto que define las condiciones para que las AFP puedan ofertar fondos adicionales para aportes voluntarios (FAAV) a los ya...

November 14, 2024

NoticiasAhorro Voluntario, Inversión, Perú, Reforma de Pensiones

14NovNovember 14, 2024

UK. Reeves in radical pension shake-up to boost growth

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning what she calls the "biggest pension reform in decades" in an attempt to boost economic growth. The government wants to merge the UK's 86 council pension schemes into a handful of "pension megafunds". It is hoped the changes will lead to billions of pounds being invested in the UK in areas such as energy infrastructure, tech start-ups and public services. Reeves told the BBC that UK public sector pension funds in their current form were not big...

November 14, 2024

NewsInvestment, Regulation, UK

14NovNovember 14, 2024

China’s economy adapts to serve older people

One person's aging is another's opportunity. In China, companies and services are adapting to serve what demographers call the silver economy - hundreds of millions of people over the age of 60. NPR's Emily Feng has this report. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EMILY FENG, BYLINE: This is a drumming club in southwestern China for people over 65 years of age only. They've occupied a large warehouse base and filled it with rows of drums and disco lights. ZHU NANFEI: (Speaking Mandarin). FENG: Zhu Nanfei,...

November 14, 2024

NewsAging, China, Labor Market, Public Policy

14NovNovember 14, 2024

Four Questions to Narrow the Field of Retirement Income Solutions

The ranks of retirement income solutions are already impressive and continue to grow as participants’ needs evolve and providers innovate. It may seem like a tall task for defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors to home in on the solutions that warrant a closer look—even as the growing demand for lifetime income adds urgency to the effort. We think working through four critical questions, which address aspects such as the location, income certainty and accessibility of solutions, can help bring the...

November 14, 2024

NewsRetirement Planning, US

14NovNovember 14, 2024

UK. HMRC issues National Insurance act fast warning to boost State Pension before cut-off date

The deadline for those impacted by new State Pension transitional arrangements is fast approaching HM Revenue and Customs bosses have issued a message to people to act ahead of a looming deadline. HMRC officials have disclosed that more than 10,000 payments, amounting to £12.5 million, have been made through the new digital service to boost individuals' State Pensions since its launch in April. With less than six months left to address any National Insurance (NI) record gaps dating back to...

November 14, 2024

News, OP Ed, Op-EdState pension, UK

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