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Peru's Cabinet Unveils Changes To Private Pension Funds

Wall Street Journal -
A long debate has raged in Peru over how best to reform the private pension system that first started in 1993, based on the Chilean model. Most workers in the formal labor sector now are obliged to make contributions to the private pension funds, ...

Turn to mutual funds for retirement planning and savings

Business Recorder (blog) -
The Pension Reforms involved funded schemes under private sector management and shifting of responsibility from state to individual citizen.

Peter Foster: Last tango in Argentina?

Financial Post -
Just as with Greece and the euro, however, Argentina failed to impose structural reforms on the Big Labour-dominated Peronista economy, and went on a spending spree, which led to default in 2001.

Explainer: LGBT Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

AS/COA Online -
In May 2011, Brazil's Supreme Court ruled that same-sex unions were legal and that gay couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples, including health, pension, and inheritance benefits. Brazil does not have laws prohibiting same-sex ...

Rethinking emerging markets

Benefits Canada -
Meanwhile, at the Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute conference in Montreal yesterday, the talk was also focused on emerging markets.

Retirement system deters savers, says Treasury

Business Day -
But large occupational funds (employer pension funds) compared well with those in countries like Poland, Peru and Chile. Retirement annuities and umbrella funds were more costly relative to international benchmarks. Mr Gordhan said only 10% of South ...

Australia eyes Israeli super system

Financial Standard -
Both lifecycling and annuities are hallmarks of the Chilean pension system, where approximately two-third of retirees purchase annuity products, according to 2009 research from the University of Pennsylvania.

House Financial Services Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community ...

Insurance News Net (press release) -
Congress has already demonstrated a commitment towards this streamlining goal when it passed the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA) as part of the Dodd-Frank legislation. The NRRA takes the first step towards streamlining state regulation of ...

Solar's Saudi saviour?

Climate Spectator -
The biggest was Parque Eolico El Arrayan securing $245 million in financing for a 115MW offshore wind project, Chile's largest.

Exclusive look at Walker's cross-country cultivation of high-level backers

Capital Times (blog) -
Before the event, Walker met with Kate Doner, a conservative, Austin, Texas,-based fundraiser and development director for the Texas Civil Justice League, a tort reform group. She apparently earned the $61344 the Walker campaign paid her on Dec. 18.

The experience of building DS and the PT, from 1979 to the first Lula government

International Viewpoint -
As well as making a very severe judgement of the government, the article also takes a stand against the offensive launched by the PT leadership to demand “discipline” from the party's members of parliament in the vote on pension reform: The meaning of ...

Newspaper Briefing, including 'Shareholders set to give RBS Chief Hester a ...

Proactive Investors UK -
CBI in call for pension funds to be given credit subsidies: The Government should offer credit subsidies to pension funds and other institutional investors in order to unlock billions of pounds for infrastructure spending, the CBI argues.

InOut, The Copenhagen Post's entertainment section, May 25-31

The Copenhagen Post -
Among the highlights are: Remisen (Soup Kitchen), where one of New York City's most popular DJs, the Chilean-born Dinky, will hit the sports hall with a mix of house, techno and funk and soul; Skateparken (Distortion), where the godfather of Danish ...

Stocks Bear Market Focus Point: Bull Trap confirmed – Following the leaders

The Market Oracle -
When you talk about Apple, you are talking about a true “big stock,” and this much money moving into and out of Apple, mainly as a result of the activity of institutional investors - mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, etc.

The crisis in Europe: a decisive turn in the situation

In Defense of Marxism (blog) -
It includes another €11.5 billion of spending cuts, along with unpopular structural measures: pensions will shrink again and thousands of public-sector workers will become sackable.
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