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June 2023

U.S public pensions are building for the long-term. How pension plans are reacting after a year of shocks

By Ortec Finance U.S. public pension plans have been through a torrid year of investment volatility, rising inflation and increasing interest rates. The Federal Reserve has raised rates nine times in succession taking the rate to 5% - the highest since 2007 – while CPI inflation climbed as high as 9.1% in June 2022. The most recent figure of 4.9% for April is good news but many analysts still expect further Federal Reserve rate rises. The series of economic shocks helps explain...

Long-Term Care Equality Index 2023

By Kelley Robinson & Michael Adams The Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI) is a program of SAGE and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF). The goal of the LEI is to create a network of LTCCs across the country that are providing a welcoming home for older LGBTQ+ people. The Long-Term Care Equality Index 2023 represents the first validated survey on LGBTQ+ inclusion in long-term care and senior housing communities. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and SAGE are excited to present...

LGBT Elders in a Post-Windsor World: The Promise and Limits of Marriage Equality

By Nancy J.Knauer This Article addresses the uncertain post-Windsor legal landscape from the perspective of LGBT elders and older adults. The demise of DOMA has enhanced access to federal benefits, but it has also increased the complexity that LGBT individuals and their families face as they begin to plan for retirement and beyond. Additionally, marriage equality — even when it is recognized nationwide — will not help LGBT elders and older adults tackle many of the obstacles they face when...

The Role of IRAs in US Households’ Saving for Retirement, 2022

By Sarah Holden & Daniel Schrass This paper presents survey results on the incidence of individual retirement account (IRA) ownership in the United States and the contribution, rollover, and withdrawal activity of IRA-owning households. IRAs play an important role in US households’ retirement saving: In mid-2022, more than four in 10 US households owned IRAs. Traditional IRAs were the most common type of IRA owned (31 percent of US households), followed by Roth IRAs and employer-sponsored IRAs. IRA-owning households often...

Pioneering Safe & Inclusive LGBT Specific Retirement Accommodation. Exploring Models in the USA, UK, & Spain

By Liam Concannon With significant advances in equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens, achieved across the western world during the past few decades, one group that continues to be overlooked is LGBT elders. This article examines the unique discrimination and homophobia faced by older LGBT people living in nursing and residential care homes. It investigates ways in which these environments construct and perpetuate heteronormativity by addressing the needs of heterosexual residents, while at the same...

Diagnóstico del sistema de pensiones peruano y avenidas de reforma

Por Álvaro Altamirano, Solange Berstein, Mariano Bosch, Gustavo Caballero, Manuel García-Huitrón, Lukas Keller & María Teresa Silva-Porto Este documento contiene un análisis detallado del estado actual del sistema de pensiones peruano. El documento enumera y describe los retos principales que el sistema de pensiones enfrentará en los siguientes años así como distintos elementos de análisis para avanzar en una nueva generación de ajustes que (i) considere el sistema pen sional en su conjunto; (ii) incremente cobertura; (iii) mantenga un equilibrio...

Derechos laborales de las personas LGBTI

Por CDHDF  El 18 de octubre de 2016 se realizó en la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal (CDHDF) el Foro: Derechos laborales de las personas LGBTI1 , en coordinación con la Fundación Arcoíris por el Respeto a la Diversidad Sexual A.C., la Alianza por la Diversidad e Inclusión Laboral, el Clóset de Sor Juana A.C., Las Reinas Chulas Cabaret y Derechos Humanos A.C., la Federación Mexicana de Empresarios LGBT S.C., la Red de abogados y promotores del Consultorio Virtual Arturo Díaz Betancourt de Letra...

Retos y reformas en materia de pensiones

Por José Luis Tortuero Plaza Junto a los impactos del factor demográfico y la llegada de la generación del baby boom, se hace referencia al factor económico, en el sentido de que el sistema productivo y todas sus derivaciones están sufriendo las consecuencias de todo un conjunto de fenómenos de distinta naturaleza y de carácter global. Prácticamente enlazadas en el tiempo se han y se están sucediendo la gran crisis financiera, la pandemia con sus múltiples efectos –incluidos la actual...

Mujeres trabajadoras jóvenes y pensiones en Chile

Por Rosario Undurraga & Javiera Becker El envejecimiento de la población presenta desafíos al sistema de pensiones. Chile tiene pensiones de vejez particularmente bajas: más de la mitad de los casos se ubica bajo la línea de la pobreza, y las pensiones de las mujeres son peores que la de los hombres. Esto genera preocupación de las jóvenes ante su pensión futura, aunque llevan una vida “presentista”. Por medio de entrevistas semi-estructuradas, esta investigación cualitativa explora las percepciones sobre el...

Implicaciones en el genero no binario en el sistema pensional de vejez colombiana

Por Paola Andrea Sanchez Alape & Jessica Johana Pulido Rivera El género no binario es una manera de cuestionar las estructuras propias de la racionalidad moderna, con diferentes paradigmas, basado en el cambio de una noción regida de una lógica binaria de la identidad, dando lugar a aquellos pensamientos alternativos sobre la identidad de género.(Zambrini, 2014, p. 3) Por lo anterior y considerando la performatividad como la capacidad del lenguaje para realizar una acción, indudablemente, es a partir de la...