February 2020

07Feb

CDPQ Goes Local for Private Credit in India

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which manages funds primarily for Canadian public and parapublic pension and insurance plans, has formed a partnership with Piramal Asset Management Private Limited to invest in illiquid credit opportunities in India. The two organizations will invest US$300 million, with 75 percent of the money coming from CDPQ and the remainder from Piramal. CDPQ oversees C$326.7 billion (US$246 billion) in net assets. CDPQ’s partnership with Piramal, an India-based manager that is part...

February 7, 2020
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January 2020

08Jan

India. Bank retirees demand basic pension update

Finance Ministry urged to improve family pension too The All Kerala Bank Retirees Forum has urged the Ministry of Finance to update basic pension and substantially increase family pension in accordance with the Bank Employees Pension Regulation. Whenever a demand for updating pension and improving family pension was raised , the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) and the Ministry of Finance argued that any tilt in the pension scheme would adversely affect the pension corpus fund. However, figures collected relating to retirements from...

January 8, 2020
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December 2019

27Dec

Indians Fear Running Out of Funds in Retirement

It is said that money can’t buy happiness but Indian earners beg to differ. Recently released Standard Chartered Wealth Expectancy Report 2019 shows that as much as 77 per cent of the 1,000 Indian respondents consider money essential to their happiness. In fact, wealth is so important that many Indian earners or wealth creators, as the report calls them, are anxious about their financial future. The survey was conducted in 10 countries across Asia, Africa and Middle East, among...

December 27, 2019
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September 2019

27Sep

Women and Labour Market Dynamics: New Insights and Evidences

By Balwant Singh Mehta, Ishwar Chandra Awasthi This book addresses women’s changing role in and contributions to the Indian labour market. It explores how feminist theories and frameworks have changed over time and gradually been supplanted by new ones. The book explores the structural shift in women’s employment from farm to non-farm jobs in services and industries, both theoretically and empirically. Further, it examines the steady rise of women in high skilled or ‘new economy’ sectors like information and...

September 27, 2019
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24Sep

India. Government Issues Notification Announcing Amendments In Pension Rules

The families of government employees dying after serving less than seven years will get enhanced pension now with the Centre amending rules. The move is likely to benefit the widows of Central Armed Police Forces personnel. Earlier, the government employees should have rendered at least seven years of service in case of death so that the family could get the enhanced family pension at 50 per cent of the last pay drawn. Now, even with less than seven years...

September 24, 2019
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11Sep

India. PM to launch farmers’ pension scheme in Ranchi on Sept 12

"The Prime Minister will launch three national and two state level schemes here on September 12. The first scheme is Kisan Mandhan Yojna, under which farmers will get Rs 3,000 pension; the second is laying the foundation stone for 462 Eklavya schools exclusively for quality education; the third is a pension scheme for small shopkeepers," the Chief Minister said in a press conference here on Tuesday. Das said that under the farmer's scheme, more than one lakh farmers have...

September 11, 2019
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August 2019

21Aug

Indian regulator clears Canadian pension fund stake in Delhivery

An Indian government regulator cleared the way for the investment arm of Canada’s public pension fund to acquire up to 8 percent of the logistics firm Delhivery. The Competition Commission of India announced the decision in a tweet on August 20. The deal, reportedly worth about $150 million, gives the e-commerce fulfillment company the backing of one of the world’s largest private equity investors, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). CPPIB will purchase shares from existing investors, according...

August 21, 2019
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July 2019

30Jul

¿Qué podría aprender México del sistema de ahorro voluntario de pensiones de India?

En 1997 México introdujo su nuevo sistema de contribución definida de cuentas individuales orientado a trabajadores del sector privado y una década más tarde entró en vigor el correspondiente a trabajadores del sector público. La Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) destaca el éxito de la iniciativa al aumentar la capacidad de la economía mexicana en cuanto a financiamiento de pensiones. Sin embargo, señala este organismo internacional, se requieren significativas mejoras. ¿Qué podría aprender México de...

July 30, 2019
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16Jul

India. Congress submits adjournment motion notice in LS over ‘pension of disabled Army personnel’

An adjournment motion is an extraordinary procedure which, if admitted, leads to setting aside the normal business of the House for discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance. The disability pension till now was not taxed by the government but recently, the government decided to tax it leading to opposition from the veterans community. On July 2, the Army headquarters clarified that though it is concerned for all personnel who are invalidated out of service in combat conditions...

July 16, 2019
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10Jul

India. State to develop social protection delivery platform

To make delivery of G2C services (government to citizen) more accurate and quicker, the state government has initiated the development of Social Registry and Integrated Social Protection Delivery Platform (SPDP). A national level workshop to this effect was held here Tuesday wherein experts from World Bank, Central government and various states shared their expertise and best practices in the field. Inaugurating the workshop, Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said, “SPDP is based on 5Ts (Teamwork, Technology, Transparency, Transformation and...

July 10, 2019
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