20 02, 2019

Foundations in RI

2019-02-20T09:40:34-08:00

Foundations in Responsible Investment is recognised as the international “gold standard for ESG training”. It was developed as the PRI Academy’s foundational course, focusing on the identification and implementation of ESG factors into investment decision making. The course, which takes 12 - 14 hours to complete, explores the key principles of responsible investment, uses real-life case studies to illustrate the materiality of ESG issues in business, introduces strategies for identifying and managing new approaches to ESG risk, and identifies [...]

Foundations in RI2019-02-20T09:40:34-08:00
20 02, 2019

Getting Started in RI

2019-02-20T09:37:34-08:00

Getting Started in Responsble Investment is a short, two to three hour training course designed for professionals across the business spectrum that want an insight into responsible investment. The course delivers the business case for RI and introduces new ideas to traditional investment approaches. The course explores the key principles of responsible investment, uses real-life case studies to illustrate the materiality of ESG issues in business, introduces strategies for identifying and managing new approaches to ESG, and identifies sustainability [...]

Getting Started in RI2019-02-20T09:37:34-08:00
19 02, 2019

How are defined benefit plans in the UK affecting southern European companies?

2019-02-19T12:00:02-08:00

Private sector defined benefit (DB) pension plans are uncommon in Spain and Italy. However, DB plans remain an important issue for companies in the United Kingdom. They can have a significant effect on the financial performance of multinational companies.MBW International, Milliman’s joint venture with Barnett Waddingham, recently analysed 20 multinational companies in Spain and Italy with around £51.7 billion of UK DB pension liabilities between them. The analysis by Isabel Coles and Andrew Vaughan considers the effect UK DB [...]

How are defined benefit plans in the UK affecting southern European companies?2019-02-19T12:00:02-08:00
13 02, 2019

DB pensions best option for Canadian employers, economy

2019-02-13T11:13:26-08:00

Defined benefit pension plans aren’t just better for Canadian workers, but for the country’s economy in general, according to a new study by the Canadian Public Pension Leadership Council. Statistics Canada data from 2018 showed 37.5 per cent of Canadian workers have some type of pension or retirement savings plan through their workplace, and 25.2 per cent have a DB plan. Far more (88 per cent) employees in the public sector participate in some form of retirement savings plan compared to the private sector [...]

DB pensions best option for Canadian employers, economy2019-02-13T11:13:26-08:00
7 02, 2019

Tell Congress to Save Multiemployer Pensions, Support the Butch Lewis Act

2019-02-07T15:09:09-08:00

The Machinists Union is fighting to save troubled multiemployer pension plans while fully protecting the earned and vested benefits of current and future retirees. While the IAM pension plan is financially sound, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) estimates that over 100 multiemployer pension plans, covering more than 1 million participants, are in “critical and declining status” and will become insolvent within the next 20 years. The best solution to accomplish this goal is to pass the Rehabilitation for [...]

Tell Congress to Save Multiemployer Pensions, Support the Butch Lewis Act2019-02-07T15:09:09-08:00
16 01, 2019

Pension legislation should balance DB sustainability with pension promise

2019-01-16T11:30:27-08:00

Any modifications to federal pension legislation should encourage plan sponsors to continue offering defined benefit pension plans, while helping them fulfil their pension promises to plan members, according to the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. “Fulfilling pension promises is especially important for those plan members who can least afford the risk of benefit reductions, such as those with a modest monthly pension and those who are at an age where pension losses cannot easily be made up with new savings,” wrote the CIA in [...]

Pension legislation should balance DB sustainability with pension promise2019-01-16T11:30:27-08:00
8 01, 2019

Retire at 55 and live to 80; work till you’re 65 and die at 67

2019-01-08T09:37:04-08:00

Imagine working as long as you possibly can, or until your maximum retirement age, to ensure you have sufficient funds for your Retirement, only to die within two years of retiring? An actuarial study conducted on some of the larger US Pension Funds including Boeing Aerospace, indicates that employees who retired at the age of 65, died within two years of retirement. Dr Ephrem (Siao Chung) Cheng provided the results from an Actuarial Study on the correlation between Retirement [...]

Retire at 55 and live to 80; work till you’re 65 and die at 672019-01-08T09:37:04-08:00
28 12, 2018

Some unions turning to variable benefit pension plan model

2018-12-28T08:22:02-08:00

As a special committee in Congress continues to grapple with ideas to help struggling multiemployer pension funds and to keep others from the same fate, an increasing number of trustees are forging ahead with shared-risk or variable benefit plan designs that can better match benefits to market returns. "If Congress does something creative with pension reform, that's great, but we weren't going to wait around for it. We wanted to take the initiative just in case something isn't worked [...]

Some unions turning to variable benefit pension plan model2018-12-28T08:22:02-08:00
4 12, 2018

Companies must address ESG issues to be deemed trustworthy by investors

2018-12-04T16:32:16-08:00

Most institutional investors demand public companies address environmental, social and governance issues to be regarded as trustworthy, said a survey released by Edelman. Results of the second annual Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Institutional Investors show that 89% of investors have changed their voting and/or engagement policy to be more attentive to ESG practices, with 63% reporting that this change has taken place in the past year. "It's plain as day that ESG is a major criteria for investors," [...]

Companies must address ESG issues to be deemed trustworthy by investors2018-12-04T16:32:16-08:00
4 12, 2018

Missing Deadline, Joint Committee Continues Work on Multiemployer Pension Crisis

2018-12-04T16:27:12-08:00

When the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans was created early this year, it was tasked with coming up with a solution by November 30. Senators and co-chairmen Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said they missed this deadline, but that the committee is making strong progress and will continue working on a package of potential solutions during the lame-duck session of the 115th Congress. Anyone who has listened in on the committee’s various [...]

Missing Deadline, Joint Committee Continues Work on Multiemployer Pension Crisis2018-12-04T16:27:12-08:00
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