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November 2024

Canadian sustainability investment standards to launch in December

The Canadian edition of an international set of sustainability investment disclosure standards will be officially released in December, according to the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board. The organization was tasked with creating a set of sustainability investment standards in Canada based on those created by the International Sustainability Standards Board. The two new disclosure metrics — CSDS 1 and CSDS 2 — will be voluntary and are designed to offer consistency, comparability and transparency to sustainability reporting for institutional investors to...

October 2022

First-of-its-kind Golden Pension Scheme launched in UAE

By Gulf Today, Staff Reporter National Bonds, the UAE’s leading Shari’a-compliant savings and investment company owned by the Investment Corporation of Dubai, has launched the first-of-its-kind Golden Pension Scheme in the UAE in a move to ramp up its suite of financial planning solutions for nationals and residents. Developed in line with increasing demand from employers and employees, the unique initiative aims to help corporates registered with National Bonds support their employees’ financial goals. The scheme, which is targeted towards 89 per...

September 2022

México. Reflexiones sobre el movimiento “Fire” (I)

La semana pasada decidí probar algo nuevo y preguntar en twitter qué temas les gustaría que abordara en mi columna. Recibí un par de propuestas muy interesantes. Esta es una de ellas. Lo seguiré haciendo: no hay nada mejor que escribir sobre lo que a mis lectores les interesa. Hace aproximadamente un año expliqué en este espacio lo que es el movimiento “FIRE”, que es el acrónimo de “Financial Independence, Retire Early”, en español “Independencia Financiera, Retiro Temprano”. Como su nombre...

Retiro parcial de pensiones llega a Colombia: Congreso presenta proyecto para hacer uso del 10%

El proyecto busca un retiro parcial ante la crisis del COVID-19, que aplicaría única y exclusivamente para unos 8,6 millones de afiliados de los fondos de pensiones privados que se encuentren desempleadas o sean independientes. Legisladores colombianos presentaron un proyecto de ley para permitir a las personas sin trabajo retirar hasta un 10% del ahorro pensional que tengan en los fondos privados, en medio de la crisis económica ocasionada por la pandemia de coronavirus que ha dejado millones de desempleados...

September 2020

COVID-19 and pensions in Latin America

By Ernesto Brodersohn In the last 2020 edition of “G7 Pensions LT Investment Summit. Modern Asset Allocation, ESG & Inclusive Growth” I was invited to deliver some remarks on the current situation of Pension Systems in Latin America in the juncture with the health and economic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. This sparked a quick updated stocktaking over the latest responses that different jurisdictions have been applying to pension schemes throughout the region. Over the past couple of months pension systems...