December 2021

US. PennPSERS pushes $1.1 billion into alternatives

Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System, Harrisburg, announced $1.1 billion in new alternative fund commitments. The $72.5 billion pension fund's board at its Dec. 17 meeting approved commitments of $300 million to Brookfield Global Transition Fund, a real assets fund investing across sectors including industrials, renewable power and utilities, managed by Brookfield Asset Management; €200 million ($226 million) to ICG Europe Fund VIII SCSp, a mezzanine fund managed by Intermediate Capital Group; and $125 million to Bain Capital Special Situations...

UK. Pension dashboard project announces commercial partners

The Pensions Dashboards Programme has partnered with three commercial dashboard providers with which to work during its initial testing phase. The PDP has selected Aviva, Moneyhub and Bud to work alongside the Money and Pensions Service’s non-commercial dashboard in the initial test phase of the pensions dashboards ecosystem. The test phase will run for six months from December 2021 and see the chosen providers prepare to connect their dashboards to the central digital architecture. The three potential providers — an insurer, an...

Proposed changes to the U.S. retirement system are still on the table in Congress. Here’s where things stand

Two years after Congress passed a law that ushered in improvements to the U.S. retirement system, lawmakers’ efforts to make further enhancements are moving forward — albeit slowly. There’s bipartisan backing for measures in both the House and Senate that would build on the 2019 Secure Act, which aimed to increase both the ranks of savers and retirement security. While progress on the proposals has been slow, there’s hope for action in 2022, say supporters. “At the end of the first...

Chile. Boric reafirma eliminación de AFP y estatización de los fondos

Chile. Boric reafirma eliminación de AFP y estatización de los fondos

Tras convertirse en el nuevo presidente electo, el ahora ex candidato del Partido Comunista y el Frente Amplio, Gabriel Boric, realizó un emotivo discurso con su adherentes en el centro de Santiago. En el lugar, reafirmó que durante su Gobierno avanzará en la eliminación de las AFP y estatización de los fondos de pensiones. Leer también Chile. Ministerio de Hacienda ingresa Pensión Garantizada Universal al Congreso Según dijo el saliente diputado del Frente Amplio, existen muchos desafíos para los próximos años...

Fintech Regulation in Mexico Updated: March 31, 2021

By Catalyst Fund. BFA Global The CCAF and BFA Global have produced this deck to support fintech startups working in Mexico and those seeking to enter the Mexican fintech market. This deck provides an overview of Mexico’s regulatory regime as it relates to the fintech verticals of: ❏ Banking ❏ Credit ❏ Insurance ❏ Payments ❏ Investment The deck also offers recommendations on how startups can best engage with regulators and tools to help them do so. Get the book here 358 views  

Gabriel Boric es electo presidente de Chile. Estos son sus planes para las pensiones.

Un ambicioso programa de transformaciones es lo que busca poner en marcha durante los próximos cuatro años el Presidente electo, Gabriel Boric (Apruebo Dignidad). Cambios profundos al sistema tributario, previsional y de salud son algunos de los proyectos más conocidos del nuevo mandatario, junto con otras propuestas como la creación de una Banca Nacional de Desarrollo. Al plan de gobierno presentado para la primera vuelta se sumó, hace algunas semanas, el "Acuerdo de Implementación Programática", documento trabajado junto a los equipos...

Colombia. Corte hace un llamado a atender tramites de pensión con enfoque de género

La Corte Constitucional se pronunció luego de estudiar el caso en el que una señora de 61 años presentó una tutela contra la Administradora Colombiana de Pensiones, Colpensiones, debido a que esta entidad, le negó el reconocimiento de la pensión de sobrevivientes, a pesar, de haber estado casada por más de cuatro años, y cuidar de su esposo hasta la muerte. Colpensiones respaldó su decisión argumentando que un año antes, la mujer habría decidido dar por terminada su relación matrimonial...

UK. Demands to delay rises in the state pension age

Plans to raise the state pension age from 66 should be shelved because we are not living as long as previously expected, a new report has suggested. Current plans would see the age at which people are eligible for the state pension go up to 67 by 2028, and then eventually to 68. Consultant LCP says life expectancy has stalled and no changes should be made for 30 years. The government has just launched its latest review of the state pension age. At...

Leftist millennial Gabriel Boric, that vowed to reform pensions for the poor, is elected president of Chile.

Leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric, 35, on Sunday became Chile’s youngest-ever president on promises of installing a “welfare state” in one of the world’s most unequal countries. The former student activist only just met the required minimum age to run in the presidential race, seven years after being elected to his first political job as a member of Chile’s Chamber of Deputies. On Sunday, he prevailed over far-right rival Jose Antonio Kast, an ultra-conservative lawyer who had promised to cut taxes and...

PinBox pushes to bring more global workers into retirement savings tent

Gautam Bhardwaj is aiming to get 100 million workers in the informal sectors of India's economy — from Uber drivers to farmers to domestic servants — to start saving for retirement over the next five years. For the co-founder and director of Singapore-based pension-tech provider pinBox Solutions Pte. Ltd., that amounts to a quick pivot from an initial success in Rwanda — where in close collaboration with the government, pinBox helped 1.5 million informal sector workers, a quarter of that...