February 2021
09Feb

Debt for Climate: Green Bonds and Other Instruments

By Paul Rose This chapter, prepared for the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Climate Finance and Investment Law (2020, Michael Mehling and Harro van Asselt (eds.)), examines the rise of green bonds, climate bonds, and other green financial instruments. Although climate finance has enjoyed positive momentum in recent years, this momentum is at risk—with the possibility of reversal—if climate markets fail to provide competitive risk-adjusted returns. For climate finance to compete effectively, governments, issuers, and investors must resolve a...

February 9, 2021
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09Feb

Counter-Hegemonic Finance: The Gamestop Short Squeeze

By Usman W. Chohan The events that surrounded the short squeeze of various downtrodden stocks such as Gamestop (GME) allude to a counter-hegemonic financial effort, with small-scale investors pooling in to sabotage the short-positions of large Wall Street players such as hedge funds. This paper frames these events in terms of public reprisal for the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and public contempt for insular financial private interest. The discussion suggests that such people-power initiatives, abetted by powerful elite...

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09Feb

Portfolio Management for Insurers and Pension Funds and COVID-19: Targeting Volatility for Equity, Balanced and Target-Date Funds with Leverage Constraints 2

By Bao Huy Doan , Jonathan J. Reeves , Michael Sherris Insurers and pension funds face the challenges of historically low interest rates and volatility in equity markets, that have been accentuated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent advances in equity portfolio management with a target volatility have been shown to deliver improved on average risk adjusted return, after transaction costs. This paper studies these targeted volatility portfolios in applications to equity, balanced and target-date funds with varying constraints...

February 9, 2021
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09Feb

Chile. Pese a la pandemia todos los multifondos de pensión rentaron positivo en enero

De acuerdo al boletín de Ciedess -centro de estudio ligado a la Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC), entidad que también es controlador de Habitat- , elaborado en base a datos de la Superintendencia de Pensiones, en enero de 2021 se observaron resultados positivos para todos los multifondos. Los fondos más riesgosos, Tipos A y B, registraron ganancias de 5,41% y 4,88% respectivamente, mientras que el fondo de riesgo moderado, Tipo C, presentó una variación de 3,59%. Por su...

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09Feb

Perú. AFP: 1.9 millones de afiliados tienen saldo cero en su cuenta tras retiros

La Asociación de AFP informó que aproximadamente 1′900,000 afiliados ya no cuentan con dinero en su fondo de jubilación, es decir, que en su cuenta de capitalización individual tiene cero soles. Este debido a que se han acogido a las seis opciones de retiro de fondo de pensiones que se han introducido desde abril del 2016 hasta diciembre del 2020. Cuatro de estas fueron aplicadas en el marco de la pandemia del COVID. Los afiliados de las AFP retiraron...

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09Feb

OCDE ve una oportunidad para reducir la desigualdad en Chile

Chile debe impulsar la creación de empleo y reducir la brecha de la desigualdad para promover la recuperación de su economía duramente golpeada por la crisis del covid-19, indicó este jueves la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE). La crisis del coronavirus y el estallido social de octubre de 2019, han sido "dos grandes shocks" para Chile, que experimenta una recesión con una contracción económica del 6% en 2020 y un aumento del desempleo en niveles...

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09Feb

Gana fuerza en el Congreso una propuesta para que el Gobierno abra una cuenta con $1,000 a todos los recién nacidos y la vaya enriqueciendo

Un proyecto de ley impulsado por el demócrata Cory Brooker en el Senado y la demócrata Ayanna Pressley en la Cámara de Representantes propone que el Gobierno federal cree una cuenta de ahorros con 1,000 dólares para toda persona que nazca en Estados Unidos. Los llamados baby bonds buscan disminuir la desigualdad económica y racial, y están ganando apoyo entre la mayoría demócrata en ambas cámaras del Congreso. Dependiendo de los ingresos de la familia, el Gobierno añadiría...

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09Feb

Kenya. Public servants take salary cut in new pension plan

Civil servants, teachers and security forces are having to re-organise their budgets after taking a two per cent cut on their January payslips. The deductions will go towards financing the State workers’ newly introduced mandatory retirement savings plan, known as the Public Service Superannuation Scheme (PSSS). Retired public servants have been receiving lifetime pensions paid directly from the exchequer, but the new scheme will see them now shoulder a portion of the ballooning pension burden that hit Sh109 billion last...

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09Feb

U.K.’s Sunak to Protect Pensioners With Triple Lock Pledge

U.K. finance minister Rishi Sunak is planning to keep the government’s promise to increase the state pensions of millions of elderly people by at least 2.5% every year, saving a flagship policy despite the costs. According to a person familiar with the matter, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will retain the “triple lock” guarantee to raise the state pension by the highest of three measures: annual growth in average earnings, inflation, or 2.5%. Around 12.5 million people receive the pension. The...

February 9, 2021
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09Feb

Ontario teachers pension fund gains $500 million by cashing in on GameStop stock rebellion

Wall Street's hedge funds are set to lose tens of billions of dollars after a mob of traders on Reddit's WallStreetBets page sent GameStop, AMC Entertainment, and other stocks skyrocketing in recent days. However, some Canadian entities are cashing in on what is being touted as the "biggest short squeeze in 25 years." Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan—the largest shareholder in U.S. mall owner Macerich Co.—reportedly sold its entire holding for nearly $500 million when the stock soared. According to...

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