September 2024
25Sep

Edad, trabajo y salud ocupacional: retos y oportunidades para los trabajadores y las organizaciones en Iberoamérica

Por Carlos María Alcover de la Hera El envejecimiento de la fuerza de trabajo debido a los cambios sociodemográficos globales plantea un conjunto de retos y de oportunidades cuya gestión es compleja y cuyos resultados pueden traer consigo consecuencias muy diversas para las personas y para las organizaciones. El principal objetivo de este artículo es analizar los más importantes identificados por la investigación internacional aplicados al contexto iberoamericano. Tras una contextualización de esos cambios sociodemográficos y sus impactos en el...

September 25, 2024
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25Sep

El Sistema Nacional de Pensiones y la política de endeudamiento en el Perú: financiamiento de las reformas paramétricas en crisis pandémica

Por Luis Alberto Quintana García  En el presente trabajo se analiza el problema del financiamiento de las reformas paramétricas realizadas al Sistema Nacional de Pensiones (SNP) del Perú, en el periodo de la pandemia, para lo cual, se inicia con un estudio sobre el estado en el que se encuentra el SNP y cómo llega al contexto de la pandemia; posteriormente, se examina el proceso de implementación delas reformas paramétricas, a través de la revisión crítica del proceso de promulgación...

September 25, 2024
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25Sep

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance unveils milestone emissions cuts

Institutional investors holding a combined $9.5 trillion of assets say they’ve slashed portfolio emissions at a rate that aligns them with the goal of limiting global warming to the critical threshold of 1.5C. The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, whose signatories include Allianz and the $519.9 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System, Sacramento, said in a statement on Sept. 25 that reduction in greenhouse gas emissions registered by its 88 members was at least 6% on average, annually, since 2018. At...

September 25, 2024
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25Sep

EU. Who can expect the most healthy life years?

In 2022, the number of healthy life years at birth in the EU was 62.6 years on average, 62.8 years for women and 62.4 years for men. Life expectancy at birth for women in the EU was, on average, 5.4 years longer than that for men (83.3 years compared with 77.9 years). Healthy life years - free from activity limitations - represent 75% and 80% of the total life expectancy for women and men, respectively. Therefore, on average, men tend to spend a greater proportion...

September 25, 2024
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25Sep

US. 5 Ways a Kamala Harris Presidency Could Impact Retirees

Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t even a contender for the White House earlier this year, but she is now the Democratic nominee for the presidency and running neck and neck with her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump. If she wins, she is expected to promote policies that could affect the bottom line of millions of retirees. “There’s been nothing that she’s said that would lead me to believe she’s a negative to retirees,” says Chris Orestis, president of Retirement Genius,...

September 25, 2024
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25Sep

UK. TPR data shows improvements in DB pension funding

The statistics show that overall, 47% of schemes reported a surplus on the Technical Provision (TP) funding basis in tranche 17 – schemes with effective valuation dates from 22 September 2021 to and inclusive of 21 September 2022 – a significant increase on the 32% in surplus in their previous valuation cycle (tranche 14). The average funding level had increased by 5% (97% in tranche 17 (median: 99%), compared to 92% in tranche 14 (median: 93%)) and recovery plan lengths...

September 25, 2024
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20Sep

Optimising Bangladesh’s Universal Pension Framework: From Lessons to Actions

By Samiha Chowdhury Social protection for the elderly, in the form of the Old-age Allowance (OAA) Programme, has been operational in Bangladesh since 1998, offering monthly financial support to senior citizens from poor and vulnerable households. As of FY24, the programme has approximately 5.8 million elderly people as beneficiaries, each receiving Tk.600 per month distributed on a quarterly basis. Apart from this, retirement benefits for the government employees and their families can also be considered a social protection programme for...

September 20, 2024
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20Sep

The Rise of Alternatives

By Juliane Begenau, Pauline Liang & Emil Siriwardane Since the 2000s, U.S. public pensions have shifted their risky investments towards alternative assets like private equity and hedge funds, some more aggressively than others. We explore several explanations for these cross-sectional trends, focusing on those implied by the mean-variance models used by most pensions. Our evidence suggests that the rise of alternatives has been fueled by an increase in their perceived risk-adjusted returns relative to public equities. Pension beliefs are shaped...

September 20, 2024
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20Sep

When the Abundance Ends: Economic Transformation, Population Aging, and Shrinking Lifecycle Surplus in China

By Feng Wang, Ke Shen & Yong Cai China’s age of abundance, driven by rapid increases in labor income and a favorable population age profile, led to a sizable surplus at the society level. Using the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) approach, this study updates results published in this journal a decade ago. It traces changes in labor income and consumption patterns in China in the 2010s, and compares them with those in the decade prior. Our results report significant shifts...

September 20, 2024
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18Sep

Inversiones y rentabilidad de los Fondos de Pensiones: Marzo 2024

Por Superintendencia de Pensiones  El valor de los Fondos de Pensiones alcanzó a $ 176.662.246 millones al 31 de marzo de 2024. Con respecto al 31 de marzo del año anterior, éste aumentó en $ 25.573.699 millones, equivalente al 16,9% (real 12,1%). La rentabilidad del Fondo de Pensiones Tipo A se explica principalmente por el retorno positivo que presentaron las inversiones en instrumentos extranjeros y acciones locales. Al respecto, tómese como referencia la rentabilidad en dólares del índice MSCI mundial,...

September 18, 2024
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