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Chile debt drought pushes pension fund foreign assets to record levels

Global Pensions | 26 Aug 2010 | 10:08

CHILE - Chilean pension funds are boosting holdings of foreign bonds to record levels after a dearth of local corporate sales pushed yields to a two-year low.

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Argentina’s lawmakers approve pensions increase

ARGENTINA - Argentina’s lower house approved an opposition-backed bill to boost the country’s minimum monthly pension payments and link them to the minimum wage, a move the government said would bankrupt the current system.

Global Pensions | 19 Aug 2010

Oklahoma Firefighters fund sues Southern Copper over merger

US/MEXICO/PERU - Southern Copper, the largest producer of copper in Mexico and Peru, has been was sued by the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension & Retirement System over fears investors will be shortchanged in a proposed merger.

Global Pensions | 18 Aug 2010

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Peru’s private pension funds

Rodrigo Amaral speaks to Pedro Flecha Zalba, head of the AFP Association about the private pension industry’s ambitious growth plans

Chilean schemes investing abroad

Chile’s regulator has made it easier for the country to invest its US$114bn in pension assets outside its home country. Rodrigo Amaral reports

Conservative investments, strong local markets help Brazilian funds boom

A conservative investment approach meant Brazilian pensions suffered only minor scrapes during the crisis, but too-strong funding levels bring problems of their own, as Dorothee Gnaedinger reports

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NEST urged to look to Chilean structure as model for default funds

Global Pensions | 07 Jul 2010 | secure | screening image

UK,CHILE - The UK should look at the Chilean retirement system’s multi-fund structure as it develops the default fund set-up for NEST, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development principal economist Pablo Antolin-Nicolas has said.

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