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26JanJanuary 26, 2024

Sustainable Finance and ESG: From Policy Concerns to Transformative Tools

By Peer C. Zumbansen This article provides an in-depth summary of the inaugural Fall conference on ESG and Sustainable Finance at McGill University, November 2023. The conference was hosted by the SGI CIBC Office for Sustainable Finance (OSF) and the Business Law Platform at McGill’s Faculty of Law. OSF was established under the auspices of McGill’s Sustainable Growth Initiative, a cross-departmental research and collaboration platform committed to cutting-edge scholarship and training on sustainable finance, decarbonisation, green mobility, climate change and...

January 26, 2024

Articles, Pension Management2024, Climate crisis, ESG, Sustainability

26JanJanuary 26, 2024

Collective Defined Contribution Pension with Stochastic Age-structured Models

By Fan Zhang We have reconfigured the Age-structured Model(ASM) model, leveraging its mathematical underpinnings rooted in cohort dynamics. This paper applies the novel ASM framework to the issue of Collective Defined Contribution Pension(CDC) pensions, providing a profound characterization of population dynamics and asset fluctuations at each time-age point within the pension context. This serves to substantiate the novel ASM framework as the key mathematical model for addressing CDC-related challenges. Furthermore, we have illustrated the distinct advantages of ASM through this...

January 26, 2024

Articles, Pension design2024, Collective Defined Contribution

24JanJanuary 24, 2024

Evolución de los recursos federales destinados al Sector Protección Social 2012-2023

Por Gabriela Morales Cisneros En el Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación 2023 se aprobó un presupuesto de 1 billón 757,252.3 millones de pesos para la Protección Social, este monto representa el 45.0% del gasto programable destinado a Desarrollo Social y el 29.5% del gasto programable del Sector Público. Libro completo aquí

January 24, 2024

Libros, Libros, Reportes, Sostenibilidad del Sistema, Sostenibilidad del Sistema2023, Financiamiento, Mexico, Protección Social, Reforma de Pensiones

24JanJanuary 24, 2024

Reforma Pensionaria

Por Enrique Díaz-Infante Chapa La reforma de 1995 creo el Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR). Fue muy positiva en cuanto a que, a través de las Afores, dio propiedad y transparencia a los trabajadores sobre su jubilación. También en cuanto a que hizo financieramente viable un sistema pensionario que fiscalmente era insostenible y generó ahorro necesario para invertir en muchos proyectos de infraestructura, con impacto favorable en crecimiento y desarrollo del país. Fuente Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

January 24, 2024

Artículos, Sostenibilidad2024, Financiamiento, Mexico, Reforma de Pensiones

24JanJanuary 24, 2024

Seguridad social y sistemas de pensiones: una valoración desde la óptica de la justicia distributiva

Por Pablo Sandoval Cabrera Cualquier sistema de pensiones viable, adecuado y sostenible debe fincarse, necesariamente, en la existencia de condiciones de equidad en la distribución de la riqueza generada por la sociedad; esto es, presupone condiciones mínimas de justicia distributiva, así como la prevalencia de oportunidades con sentido de inclusión. Partiendo de esta premisa, se establece un marco de reflexión en la búsqueda de propuestas de solución al problema pensionario y de seguridad social desde el enfoque de la justicia...

January 24, 2024

Artículos, Caracterización del Sistema2023, América Latina, Protección Social, Seguridad Social

19JanJanuary 19, 2024

PPF 7800 Index

By Pension Protection Fund The PPF 7800 Index tracks the level of underfunding risk in the PPF-eligible universe using the latest scheme return information provided to The Pensions Regulator and the roll- forward methodology used for PPF levy purposes. There are certain simplifications within the levy calculation, as described in note 4 on page 7 of this document, that should be borne in mind when interpreting these results. In particular, the assets and liabilities have not been reduced for benefit...

January 19, 2024

Books, Books, Pension Management, Reports2024, Funding, UK

19JanJanuary 19, 2024

Pension Funding Index January 2024

By Zorast Wadia The funded status of the country’s 100 largest corporate pension plans, as measured by the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), experienced a modest improvement in 2023, driven by annual investment returns of 9.94%. Declining discount rates, particularly in the fourth quarter, and the corresponding liability (i.e., the projected benefit obligation) increase of 8.33% served to partially offset the asset gains, resulting in a funded status improvement of $4 billion for the year. This gain paled in...

January 19, 2024

Books, Books, Reports, System Characterization2024, Funding, Occupational Pensions, System sustainability, US

19JanJanuary 19, 2024

Inter-Generational Spillovers in Labor Supply: Evidence from a Danish Retirement Reform

By Malene C. F. Laczek In this paper, I study how the labor supply of one generation affects the next. Utilizing longitudinal Danish register data and a large retirement reform, I document that parents’ retirement significantly affects the labor supply of their adult children. This inter-generational link is driven solely by mothers. Concretely, mothers’ retirement permanently increases their adult children’s income rank by 7 income rank points, driven by increased hours worked, participation in the labor force, improved occupational rank,...

January 19, 2024

Articles, Labor Market2024, Equality, Gender Gap, Income, Labor Market

19JanJanuary 19, 2024

Social Security and Inequality in Belgium

By Giulia Klinges, Alain Jousten & Mathieu Lefebvre Over the years, the Belgian social security system has undergone substantial reform with a prime focus on increasing older worker labor force participation. The paper explores the effect of past reforms on inequality in old age. We distinguish two separate effects: The mechanical effect considers the change in inequality and expected benefit levels due to the reforms for a fixed retirement age distribution. The behavioral effect accounts for the endogenous change caused...

January 19, 2024

Articles, System Characterization2024, Belgium, Equality, Public Pensions, Social Security

19JanJanuary 19, 2024

Occupations Shape Retirement Across Countries

By Philip Sauré, Arthur Seibold, Elizaveta Smorodenkova & Hosny Zoabi We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and retirement that is present across institutional settings. Finally, we find that occupational composition is an important determinant of aggregate retirement behavior across...

January 19, 2024

Articles, Labor MarketAging, Pension design, Retirement Planning