February 2023

The Future of Global Retirement 2023

By Smart As perceptions of retirement shift across the world, in line with emerging technology and reforms to legislation, the industry needs to keep up and remain one step ahead. At Smart, we’re continuing to lead the way in research and development in this space, and as part of our mission, we’ll continue to share some of the insights we gain around the needs of savers across the world. In 2021, we launched our first ‘Future of Global Retirement’ report, taking...

Pension Withdrawals Drain Savings in Chile and Peru

By Richard Francis, Kelli Bissett-Tom & Christopher Dychala Peru, Chile and Bolivia have allowed early withdrawals from their funds as a source of relief for households and to support recoveries during the pandemic and the global price shock. But these have had negative financial and confidence ramifications, contributing to downgrades of Peru in 2021 and Chile in 2020. Longstanding private pension funds have been important supports for sovereign creditworthiness where they exist in Latin America. Pension fund assets have supported sovereign...

Financial Inclusion: Annual Monitoring Report 2022

By Stephen McKay, Karen Rowlingson & Adele Atkinson  This report is the tenth, and final, in a series of annual monitoring reports supported by the Friends Provident Foundation and Barrow Cadbury Trust to monitor progress towards, or indeed, away from, financial inclusion in Britain. To aid comparisons and provide a comprehensive picture, it uses the same framework as the previous reports and updates figures, where available, to give the most recent data and trends. Read book "here"

Enhancing Investors’ Trust

By CFA Institute Investor Trust Study Investors must have confidence in the financial system overall, and trust is especially important for investment management, since client outcomes manifest only over a future horizon. Industry leaders must understand the drivers of investor trust so they can deliver the most value. In the 2022 CFA Institute Investor Trust Study, the fifth in our biennial series, we found that trust levels in financial services among retail and institutional investors have increased significantly since 2020....

Healthcare Technology International Perspective Report

By Dr. Michael Twomey THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC is putting vast pressure on the worldwide health care sector’s labour force, infrastructure, and supply chain, and revealing social inequities in health and care. Moreover, COVID-19 is hastening transformation throughout the ecosystem, requiring public and private health systems to acclimatise and innovate swiftly. A number of key changes are appearing from and being worsened by COVID-19’s expanse. For instance, consumers’ growing participation in healthcare decision-making; the swift embracing of virtual health and other digital...

January 2023

Older Adults and Technology Use

By: Aaron Smith America’s seniors have historically been late adopters to the world of technology compared to their younger compatriots, but their movement into digital life continues to deepen, according to newly released data from the Pew Research Center. In this report, we take advantage of a particularly large survey to conduct a unique exploration not only of technology use between Americans ages 65 or older and the rest of the population, but within the senior population as well. Two different groups of older Americans...

World Migration Report 2022

By: IOM Since 2000, IOM has been producing its flagship world migration reports every two years. The World Migration Report 2022, the eleventh in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration and mobility throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration...

Promoting an Age-Inclusive Workforce

All OECD economies are undergoing rapid population ageing, leading to more age diversity in workplaces than ever before as people are not only living longer but working longer. Greater diversity of experience, generations and skills gives employers an important opportunity to harness the talent that different age groups bring to the workplace and improve productivity and profitability. What can employers do to maximise the benefits of a multigenerational workforce? This report presents a business case for embracing greater age diversity...

Population Aging and Migration

By Panu Poutvaara International migration flows largely reflect demographic patterns and economic opportunities. Migration flows increase in expected income and other pull factors in potential destinations, and in push factors in the origin, like high unemployment, low wages, and high population growth. Migration flows decrease in the geographic and cultural distance between the potential origin and destination, and in other migration costs. To the extent that migrants are employed, immigration can alleviate challenges arising from population aging. Read book here  

Towards construction of comprehensive care systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: ELEMENTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

By ECLAC The Latin American and Caribbean region is experiencing an unprecedented economic and social crisis. The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have spread to all spheres of human life, hurting economies, changing the way we interact, and causing extensive societal changes. The crisis has highlighted and exacerbated structural gaps, deepening pre-existing inequalities and exposing the vulnerabilities of political, economic, and social protection systems. The onset of the crisis magnified the structural challenges of gender inequality, reversing much...