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11NovNovember 11, 2021

UK. Huge increase in pension schemes with over £1bn

There has been a 90% increase in the number of UK pension schemes with over £1bn in assets since 2013, research by Barnett Waddingham has uncovered. In a report published today, the researchers also reveal how 55% of pensions schemes studied were closed to accrual this year, up from just 15% eight years ago. Expansion of pension scheme assets has meant more significant challenges for trustees and employers at a time when there’s about to be a step change in regulatory...

November 11, 2021

News, Slider2021, Occupational Pensions, Private Pensions, savings, UK

04OctOctober 4, 2021

Ireland. Call for measures to end pensions ‘discrimination’ against private sector

Small business lobby Isme and Brokers Ireland, which represents financial advisers, have called on the Government to increase financial support for private pensions. The groups have written to Ministers outlining measures that, it says, would remove “pensions discrimination against the self-employed and private sector workers”. “The gold-plated pensions available to our politicians and our public servants are simply not affordable for workers in the private sector,” Isme said as they presented what they call a pensions “white paper”, drawn up in...

October 4, 2021

News, SliderPensions, Pensions Discrimination, Private Pensions, Private Sector, Small Business

09SepSeptember 9, 2021

Private pension plans in Latin America and sustainable finance

The private pension plan (PPP) market in Latin America is the region’s largest institutional client segment, with more than USD 900 billion in assets under management (AUM) at the end of 2020. And with projections forecasting AUM to reach USD 1.4 trillion by 2023, the PPPs are a reference point for smaller investors. Along with sovereign wealth funds (SWF), Latin America’s PPPs control a significant share of assets relative to GDP and thus can be very influential in the...

September 9, 2021

News, Slider2021, ESG, Latin America, Private Pensions, Social Protection

04JunJune 4, 2021

Prefunded Pension Systems: Recent Developments

By Kristian Peter Niemietz From the mid-1990s to the onset of the financial crisis, prefunded pension systems, based on individual retirement savings accounts, were spreading around the world. The UK was initially a world leader in this, due to the system of contracting out, which had allowed people to opt out of part of the state pension scheme and save for their own pension instead. Since 2008, there has been a global U-turn. Private pension systems are now in retreat...

June 4, 2021

Articles, Pension design2021, Chile, DC Pensions, Private Pensions, UK

13MayMay 13, 2021

Turkey: The Regulation On The Private Pension System Has Been Amended

Amendments regarding the Regulation on the Private Pension System ("Regulation") were published in the Official Gazette No. 31476 dated 6 May 2021. With the changes introduced by the Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency ("Agency"), new regulations have been created regarding the use of electronic means of communication, the maximum number of changes allowed in a fund distribution and the purchase and sale of pension investment funds via a central electronic platform. You can read the amendments...

May 13, 2021

News, Slider2021, Private Pensions, Regulation, Turkey

08AprApril 8, 2021

Pension systems in east Africa a deep dive

By World Bank Group Although the populations of the countries in East Africa are still young, there is a growing awareness among policy makers that they too will face the interlocking challenges of demographics and urbanization. The lesson learned from other regions is that policies need to be put in place now to ensure that pension systems are robust and affordable. So too, pension savings should be used to fund economic growth and development. Otherwise, we risk the fate of...

April 8, 2021

Books, Pension design, System Sustainability2019, Africa, Private Pensions, Public Pensions

25MarMarch 25, 2021

Public Pensions and Private Savings

By Esteban García-Miralles, Jonathan Leganza How does the provision of public pension benefits impact private savings? We answer this question in the context of a reform in Denmark that altered old-age benefit payouts through a discontinuous increase in pension eligibility ages contingent on birthdate. Using detailed administrative data and a regression discontinuity design, we identify the causal effects of the policy, leveraging our setting to study essentially the entire financial portfolio. We document responses over two distinct time horizons. First,...

March 25, 2021

Articles, Pension design, System Sustainability2020, Private Pensions, Public Pensions, Public Policy, US

16MarMarch 16, 2021

Philippines. House panel pitches change in private retirement system

THE House Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries on Monday started deliberating the proposed Capital Market Development Act to establish a new private retirement and pension system in the country. However, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III quickly told the committee that while the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) lauded the intent of House Bill 8939, the costs to be shouldered by both employers and workers may not be generally welcomed, especially at a time when most people are still...

March 16, 2021

NewsPhilippines, Private Pensions, Regulation

05MarMarch 5, 2021

Vietnam gets its first private defined contribution plan

Dragon Capital VietFund Management, a Ho Chi Minh-based money management firm, has launched Vietnam's first private sector retirement savings vehicle. The defined contribution plan, with government tax incentives for employees and employers alike, offers savers three fund options — a relatively high-risk 50-50 split between equities and bonds, a 65% bond-35% stock mix and a conservative 80% bond-20% stock mix. Savings can be withdrawn tax-free upon reaching retirement age, currently 62 for men and 60 for woman. Life insurers in Vietnam have...

March 5, 2021

News, Slider2021, DC Pensions, Private Pensions, Vietnam

02FebFebruary 2, 2021

Puerto Rico Government Plan-to-Private Plan Rollovers Allowed

On January 20, 2021, the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury (Departamento de Hacienda, commonly known as “Hacienda”) issued Administrative Determination No. 21-01 (AD 21-01), which provides that lump-sum distributions from the retirement plan for Puerto Rico government employees are eligible for direct and indirect rollovers into Puerto Rico–qualified retirement plans maintained by private-sector employers. In practice, however, this determination is unlikely to have much of an impact on the operation of private-sector employer plans. Background Since the 1940s,...

February 2, 2021

News, Slider2021, Private Pensions, Puerto Rico

November 2021

UK. Huge increase in pension schemes with over £1bn

October 2021

Ireland. Call for measures to end pensions ‘discrimination’ against private sector

September 2021

June 2021

Prefunded Pension Systems: Recent Developments

May 2021

Turkey: The Regulation On The Private Pension System Has Been Amended

April 2021

Pension systems in east Africa a deep dive

March 2021

Public Pensions and Private Savings

Philippines. House panel pitches change in private retirement system

Vietnam gets its first private defined contribution plan

February 2021

Puerto Rico Government Plan-to-Private Plan Rollovers Allowed