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February 2023

15Feb

Brechas de género en el sistema previsional argentino. Impacto de las desigualdades en el mercado de trabajo y en el sistema de cuidados.

Por  Natalia Guinsburg Este trabajo analiza las desigualdades de género entre las personas mayores como correlato de la acumulación de (des)ventajas a lo largo del curso de vida y de los diseños de los sistemas previsionales bajo distintos modelos de acumulación entre los años 1994 y 2019. Para ello, a partir de microdatos de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH) de INDEC y datos de registros administrativos de ANSES, se estimaron y analizaron los indicadores de tasa de cobertura previsional...

February 15, 2023
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08Feb

Pension Withdrawals Drain Savings in Chile and Peru

By Richard Francis, Kelli Bissett-Tom & Christopher Dychala Peru, Chile and Bolivia have allowed early withdrawals from their funds as a source of relief for households and to support recoveries during the pandemic and the global price shock. But these have had negative financial and confidence ramifications, contributing to downgrades of Peru in 2021 and Chile in 2020. Longstanding private pension funds have been important supports for sovereign creditworthiness where they exist in Latin America. Pension fund assets have supported sovereign...

February 8, 2023
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08Feb

Financial Inclusion: Annual Monitoring Report 2022

By Stephen McKay, Karen Rowlingson & Adele Atkinson  This report is the tenth, and final, in a series of annual monitoring reports supported by the Friends Provident Foundation and Barrow Cadbury Trust to monitor progress towards, or indeed, away from, financial inclusion in Britain. To aid comparisons and provide a comprehensive picture, it uses the same framework as the previous reports and updates figures, where available, to give the most recent data and trends. Read book "here"

February 8, 2023
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08Feb

New Evidence on the Demand for Advice within Retirement Plans

By Jonathan Reuter & David P. Richardson We study demand for advice by retirement plan participants using administrative records from defined contribution retirement plans offered by 23 institutions where TIAA is the sole recordkeeper. We distinguish advice on asset allocation from advice on retirement income levels, and between participants who are and are not eligible for TIAA’s wealth management services. We find that advice seeking increases with age, account balance and annual contribution level, and is highest among those eligible for wealth management services. However, we...

February 8, 2023
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01Feb

Enhancing Investors’ Trust

By CFA Institute Investor Trust Study Investors must have confidence in the financial system overall, and trust is especially important for investment management, since client outcomes manifest only over a future horizon. Industry leaders must understand the drivers of investor trust so they can deliver the most value. In the 2022 CFA Institute Investor Trust Study, the fifth in our biennial series, we found that trust levels in financial services among retail and institutional investors have increased significantly since 2020....

February 1, 2023
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01Feb

Healthcare Technology International Perspective Report

By Dr. Michael Twomey THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC is putting vast pressure on the worldwide health care sector’s labour force, infrastructure, and supply chain, and revealing social inequities in health and care. Moreover, COVID-19 is hastening transformation throughout the ecosystem, requiring public and private health systems to acclimatise and innovate swiftly. A number of key changes are appearing from and being worsened by COVID-19’s expanse. For instance, consumers’ growing participation in healthcare decision-making; the swift embracing of virtual health and other digital...

February 1, 2023
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January 2023

26Jan

Older Adults and Technology Use

By: Aaron Smith America’s seniors have historically been late adopters to the world of technology compared to their younger compatriots, but their movement into digital life continues to deepen, according to newly released data from the Pew Research Center. In this report, we take advantage of a particularly large survey to conduct a unique exploration not only of technology use between Americans ages 65 or older and the rest of the population, but within the senior population as well. Two different groups of older Americans...

January 26, 2023
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26Jan

World Migration Report 2022

By: IOM Since 2000, IOM has been producing its flagship world migration reports every two years. The World Migration Report 2022, the eleventh in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration and mobility throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration...

January 26, 2023
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18Jan

Choosing Pension Fund Investment Consultants

By Aleksandar Andonov, Matteo Bonetti & Irina Stefanescu Pension funds rely on the advisory services of investment consultants for asset allocation decisions, manager selection, and performance benchmarking. While prior research finds that consultants generally do not add value, pension funds have increased the number of consultants over time, particularly in alternative assets, such as real assets, private equity and hedge funds. We explore the factors underlying the hiring and firing of consultants and examine whether these decisions are made in the...

January 18, 2023
Articles, Pension Management,
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El envejecimiento en Colombia: un análisis desde la economía del cuidado 2000-2015
17Jan

El envejecimiento en Colombia: un análisis desde la economía del cuidado 2000-2015

Por: Botero Castro, Alexander Castellanos Morales, Viviana Guerrero Samudio, & Cindy La presente revisión de literatura aborda el problema del cuidado desde la perspectiva de la economía del cuidado; este término es utilizado para definir el conjunto de actividades requeridas para la reproducción social: entre estas la transformación de alimentos, limpieza del hogar, el cuidado de niños, ancianos y personas en condición de discapacidad. Otro aspecto a tener en cuenta es que la mayoría del trabajo doméstico es realizado por...

January 17, 2023
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