April 2021

Latin America: A Growing Appetite for Alternative Assets

Preqin has launched its first Latin America-focused report. “Preqin Markets in Focus: Latin America’s Growing Appetite for Alternative Assets” explores the emerging market and trends paving the region’s future in the alternatives industry. With diverse challenges and opportunities unique to the economies and investors in the region, this report reveals how Latin America is leaving the global pandemic behind and expanding further into the world of alternative investments. Read also Guyana. IDB study calls for overhaul of pension system The region’s...

March 2021

PensionBee targets £55m capital raise as IPO plans confirmed

PensionBee is aiming to raise £55m through issuing new shares, as the pension provider has confirmed its intention to list on the London Stock Exchange. The group, which first made its intentions public on March 23, today (March 30) published its registration document for an IPO on the LSE. Read also UK women have up to 45% less in pension at retirement than men The £1.5bn AUA company is applying for admission in the high growth segment of the main market on...

Lebanon crisis robs pensioners of cash cushions

Samir Merhi returned to Lebanon in 2009, hoping the fortune he made abroad would let him retire comfortably at home, but the country's economic crisis has upended his dreams and forced him to leave again. For four decades, Merhi said he made "millions" working in the fashion and construction industries in Britain and the Gulf, but draconian controls imposed by Lebanese banks have trapped his life savings. Speaking in a hotel in Beirut's commercial district of Hamra, Merhi said he was...

US. Covid-19 Makes Racial And Class Status Longevity Gaps Worse

Everyone knows the poor die sooner than the rich. Some humans can live past 90, but many don’t have access to the health and wealth that lets humans live a normal human life span. In the last 20 years, all longevity gains for Americans have gone to those in the upper half of the income distribution. Boston University researchers Jacob Bor, Gregory Cohen and Sandro Galea found that income and education gaps in life expectancy widened during the period 1980–2014....

January 2018

SEC looking into MetLife’s failure to pay some pensions

MetLife Inc said on Monday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was looking into the insurer’s failure to pay some workers’ pensions. MetLife, in a statement, said the SEC’s enforcement staff has inquired about payments that the insurer failed to make for people who receive a type of annuity benefit from the company via its retirement business. Less than 5 percent of 600,000 people are affected, the company has said. The New York insurer estimated increasing total reserves by between $525...