December 2021

El Covid-19 pegó a 5 millones de empleos turísticos en Perú

Ricardo Acosta, el presidente de la Asociación Peruana de Agencias de Viajes y Turismo (Apavit), afirmó que los años 2020 y 2021 fueron años totalmente atípicos debido a la pandemia y la inacción del gobierno en los años anteriores al 2021 debido a que la recuperación del turismo fue nula. Manifestó que, en el presente año, se viene recuperando lenta y progresivamente, a pesar de que el Perú se ha convertido en uno de los países con más restricciones y...

Record returns notched in pandemic head list

A global pandemic in its second year, historically strong equity markets and a new occupant in the White House dominated headlines during the past year, while the return of inflation and regulatory and legislative changes were also among Pensions & Investments' top 10 stories of 2021. The top story this year — chosen by P&I's editors — is the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. As it lagged on, a historic market recovery spurred in part by actions taken to...

Nigeria. FG still owes over N90.1bn pension liabilities — PTAD

The Federal Government still owes over N90.1 billion pension inherited unfunded liabilities to redundant agencies and parastatals, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, has said. The Directorate disclosed this at the training workshop it organised for pension correspondents in Abuja. Deputy Director of Parastatals, Pension Department, PaPD, of PTAD, Yusuf Umar, who disclosed this, said the outstanding revealed that the defunct Nigeria Telecommunications Nitel/Mtel had the largest with N73 billion unfunded liability, translating to 81 per cent.Umar said others were Delta...

Chinese province offers $31,000 baby loans to counter shrinking population

A Chinese province with one of the fastest-shrinking populations is rolling out special loans to encourage couples to marry and have babies, as the rapidly-aging country tries to reverse a slump in births. Jilin province in northeast China will support banks to provide up to 200,000 yuan ($31,400) of “marriage and birth consumer loans” to married couples, according to an official blueprint on policies to promote population growth. There were no details on how the government would offer support, but the...

EE.UU. Nueva York y su giro verde: adiós de los fondos de pensiones a empresas de combustibles fósiles

Nueva York ha decidido dar un paso más en su lucha por una economía más verde. La ciudad más grande de Estados Unidos anunció este miércoles que retira la inversión de sus fondos de pensiones en activos por valor 3.000 millones de dólares procedentes de compañías relacionadas con combustibles fósiles. Esta acción, considerada "una de las más importantes del mundo", pretende encarar los riesgos financieros y medioambientales que estas reservas de combustibles fósiles representan para los fondos y para...

Colombia. Reforma pensional que se espera en 2022 deberá transformar los regímenes actuales

Desde hace varios años se habla de la necesidad de una reforma pensional. Con la llegada de la pandemia, la agenda cambió y las prioridades fueron otras. Ya que este fue el año de la recuperación económica, el tema vuelve a estar sobre la mesa. Protección destacó los puntos que espera el sector de este documento. “Los objetivos de la reforma deberían ser: aumentar la cobertura, los subsidios deben asignarse únicamente a las personas que los necesitan y poder lograr...

UK. Experts predict busy 2022 for pensions industry

Pension professionals have predicted a busy and challenging year for the pensions sector in 2022, with many issues continuing into the New Year alongside new initiatives for the industry to contend with. With hope that the pandemic will subside, many commentators pointed to the increased focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in 2022. “2022 will see the continued rise in the incorporation of key ESG issues, including but not limited to climate change, into defined contribution (DC) investment design,”...

Spain. The IMF warns of the ‘Escrivá plan’ for pensions: the reform will raise spending by 42,000 million

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns the Government of Spain about the pension reform, which will make the System more unsustainable if complementary measures are not taken on spending and income. In this way, it disfigures the cabinet led by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, that “the pension reform has prioritized social acceptability and sufficiency, but concerns remain about sustainability in the event that no additional measures are implemented “. The agency assures...

US. News and analysis for those planning for or living in retirement

I’ll have $5 million for retirement when I sell my dental practice next year – but my wife and kids don’t want me to retire: Retiring can be emotional, and not just for the individual. When should I claim Social Security? The dilemma and the strategy: So many factors go into deciding when to begin Social Security benefits, and the wrong choice can have dire consequences on how much someone ultimately receives. A plan for aging in place: How we’re turning...

Aging, Retirement and Economic Growth

By Chao Ma & Xiangbo Liu This paper aims at examining the effects of an increase in life expectancy on long-run growth boosted through endogenous human capital accumulation. We first justify the negative growth effects of population aging by developing a three-period overlapping generation (OLG) model with private and public education systems and a social security scheme of a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) nature. In our model, government expenditure structure is allowed to adapt to demographic shifts for the purpose of maintaining...