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• Putting Private Pension Funds to Work in Latin America

WASHINGTON, July 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (LASFRC) met at the Center for Global Development this week to work on the issue of private pension funds and to propose new financial instruments for increased investment opportunities. Currently, in Latin America, rapid growth in pension fund savings has outpaced the local market's capacity to supply financial instruments for investment. Among the group's proposals is the use of four classes of assets: securitized bonds, mortgage securities, infrastructure finance bonds and collateralized loan obligations. Additionally the group discussed changes to the regulatory framework and the financial risks of transitioning from pay-as-you-go to individual capital systems.

• U.S. Newswire
• July 15, 2005

• Capturing Benefits of Private Pensions

PENSION retirement benefits provided by private-sector employers are becoming an increasingly important source of retirement income in many countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Latin America and Western Europe. This has sparked interest in other countries to emulate this system, acknowledging the growing importance of private pensions and the privatisation of retirement income worldwide. Malaysia is hot on the heels of these countries and plans are being discussed to supplement the current pension system with the introduction of private pension funds. As approximately two million self-employed people are not part of Malaysia's formal pension system, private funds can play a part in complementing the present system, which is crucial in building a new high-income-based...

• Malaysian Business
• September 23, 2010

• Proxy season 2007: more smoke than fire; The 2007 proxy season saw a slew of challenges from activist shareholders, private equity funds, public pension funds and others. Many high-profile proxy contests did not materialize, as companies compromised to keep resolutions from being voted on.

Results of the 2007 proxy season are indicative of the changing landscape and drive for transparency and corporate accountability. [ILLUSTRATION OMI...

• Financial Executive
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 6, July 2007

• State Taking Risks to Boost Pension Pool

New Jersey has paved the way for its financially troubled pension system to put almost 40 percent of its funds into risky but potentially higher-yielding investments. The State Investment Council, which sets pension policy, recently raised the cap to 38 percent from 28 percent on how much pension money can be invested in hedge funds, private equity and other so- called alternative investments. The council plans to discuss how it will invest pension money over the next year at its Thursday meeting in Trenton, the first since the new cap took effect in April, state officials said.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• May 17, 2011

• SIC 6371 Pension, Health, and Welfare Funds

...Private Plans. Private plans that employ fund managers exi...

• Encyclopedia of American Industries
• Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

• Scrutiny of U.S. Forex Trading Shifts to Private Firms

NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - The scrutiny of foreign currency trading in the United States is shifting to whether private investment firms, not just public pension funds, were overcharged by the banks that handle these lucrative transactions. Money managers are handling more of these transactions in-house instead of relying on big custodial banks that traditionally took care of much of the business. The growing popularity of electronic trading tools, which have enhanced competition and transparency in the market, is hastening the shift away from custodian banks.

• Reuters Hedgeworld
• February 12, 2011

• Britain's Pension Problem: Government Failure

Booth observes that the system of contracting out has arguably enabled Britain to build up private pension funds that were the envy of the world only a few years ago, but the current problem with British pensions merely indicate that there is nothing so impressive and impregnable that government incompetence cannot destroy it. He emphasizes that it is important not to allow a pension system to become completely bound up in red tape, micro-meddling with people's incomes to achieve social objectives and obsessively restricting people's actions.

• Freeman
• Vol. 55 Nbr. 4, May 2005

• World Datelines

Argentina: State-run pensions BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina's Senate has approved a state takeover of $23 billion in private pension funds.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 21, 2008

• Dems Propose Pension System 'Blow Up'

Democratic leaders on Friday said they want to "blow up" the state's public employee pension system in order to save it. Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, D-Essex, called for a fundamental restructuring of the system, underfunded by almost $54 billion, to model it after private-sector pension funds. They would give public employee unions more say in how their pensions are administered but make workers give concessions. The changes would not apply to those who have already retired.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• January 10, 2011

• Efectos Económicos de Los Sistemas de Pensiones

by Roberto Ham Chande and Berenice Ramírez LópezMéxico, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte / Plaza, 2006, Spanish, Softcover, 410 pages REVIEWED BY JORRGE RAFAEL MANZANO Ten years after Mexico's shift to private pension funds, the country's private sector workers increasingly wonder if the new system is any more secure than the old, under-funded model.

• Americas Quarterly
• Vol. 1 Nbr. 2, October 2007