El presidente electo de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, afirmó que la reforma del sistema de las pensiones puede ser presentada por partes y que el primer asunto que llevaría al Congreso sería el establecimiento de una edad mínima. “No adelanta nada tener una propuesta ideal que va a quedarse en Diputados o en el Senado. La idea es comenzar por la edad, atacar los privilegios y avanzar en esa pauta”, declaró Bolsonaro. Leer más @El día
Britons living in the EU, who qualify for a state pensions uprate, could lose the guarantee after disorderly Brexit. The British government has today outlined the ways how it intends to protect rights of its citizens living in the EU in the case of “no-deal Brexit.” As one of the protections, the Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay pledged to keep uprating state pensions of UK nationals living in the EU – but only if the EU reciprocates. If the EU as a bloc...
Government employees don’t pay the full cost of their defined-benefit pensions. Taxpayers provide a $22 billion annual subsidy by assuming undisclosed investment risks for which they are not compensated, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “The issue is not whether government employees should have defined-benefit pensions, but rather how much they should pay for these pensions,” said Philip Cross, Fraser Institute senior fellow and co-author of Risk and Reward...
The failure of senior management at advice firms to identify the risks associated with defined benefit transfers, was named as one of the reasons behind widespread problems in the field. The Financial Conduct Authority published the findings of its recent investigation of pension transfer advice today (December 6), saying less than 50 per cent of the advice it had reviewed was deemed suitable. The regulator had looked at 18 firms, which had given advice to 48,248 clients on their defined benefit...
La secretaria del Trabajo y Previsión Social, Luisa María Alcalde Luján, celebró la resolución de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN), en la que declara inconstitucional que los patrones de las empleadas domésticas no estén obligados a registrarlas ante el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS). La Segunda Sala de la SCJN aprobó, este miércoles, el proyecto en este sentido, elaborado por el ministro Alberto Pérez Dayán, del amparo directo 9/2018. En un comunicado, la SCJN señaló...
Visits to the FCA’s Scam Smart website have increased 462 per cent in less than two months following its joint scam awareness campaign with The Pensions Regulator. The Scam Smart site – which allows people to compare pension fund options and find information on potential scams – previously had an average 562 page views daily. This rose to an average of 3,145 a day in the 55 days immediately following the summer campaign, the regulators have said. The regulators’ campaign is calling...
El Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (SAR) reportó una cifra de tres billones 279 mil 237 millones de pesos al finalizar el mes de noviembre, con lo que sumó su segundo mes consecutivo de minusvalías. De acuerdo con cifras de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar), esta cifra representó un descenso de cuatro mil 191 millones de pesos o 0.12 por ciento menos respecto al mes previo. Esta cantidad se suma a las minusvalías reportadas...
Nigeria’s Military Pension Board (MPB) has alerted retirees and families of deceased personnel of the circulation of “fake and malicious” messages by impostors to defraud them of their hard earned income.The Public Relations Officer, Flt.-Lt. Obasi Okoroafor, said the board has advised them to promptly report such fraudsters to the nearest military unit. Okoroafor said the MPB was dismayed by the circulation of the fraudulent messages by mischievous elements claiming to be its agents. “The dubious messages request for money from...
Many hospitals' DB plans are not as well-funded as other corporate pensions, Cerulli reports. Even as most organizations have moved away from defined benefit plans in favor of defined contribution plans, not so health and hospital systems. Instead, according to research from Cerulli Associates, some within the health care industry that are having a rough time attracting and hanging onto talent are looking to leverage pensions as a recruitment tool. “While corporations are generally moving toward defined contribution plan offerings, health and...
Sin embargo, Giovanna Prialé, presidenta de la asociación de AFP, señaló que para tener mayores pensiones se debe aumentar la densidad de aportes del trabajador. La presidenta de la asociación de AFP, Giovanna Prialé, señaló que desde su gremio esperan que con el eventual ingreso de una nueva AFP, el país tenga estabilidad jurídica y se respeten las reglas de juego; es decir, respetando, sobre todo, la capitalización individual. "Tengo mis ideas ahí dando vueltas (sobre cuál podría ser)", comentó Prialé,...
