Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Last week, John Mauldin published an important comment, Angst in America, Part 3: Retiring Broke: Today we continue looking at angst in America, the financial worries that so afflict us here in the world’s largest … Continue reading America’s Growing Retirement Angst?
Josephine Cumbo of the Financial times reports, Pensions review recommends later retirement age: Millions of people should have their state pension age pushed back a year to 68 to cut the UK’s £100bn a year pension costs, according to an independent review commissioned by the government. John Cridland was appointed to review the state pension … Continue reading All Hail The UK’s State Pension Reforms?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Jonathan Rochford, portfolio manager at Narrow Road Capital, wrote a guest comment for ValueWalk, The Dallas Pension Fiasco Is Just the Beginning (h/t, Jim Leech): The recent blow-up of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension … Continue reading All Roads Lead to Dallas?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Mary Williams Walsh of the New York Times reports, $1.6 Million Bill Tests Tiny Town and ‘Bulletproof’ Public Pensions: Until the certified letters from Sacramento started coming last month, Loyalton, Calif., was just another hole … Continue reading Are Public Pensions Bulletproof?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi, Espen Moen wrote a comment for Vox EU, CEPR’s policy portal, Increases in the retirement age and labour demand for youth (h/t, Suzanne Bishopric): Most European countries have experienced a dramatic … Continue reading Europe’s Lost Generation?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Keith Ambachtsheer, Director Emeritus, International Center for Pension Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and author of The Future of Pension Management, wrote an op-ed for the Financial Times, Pension solution lies in … Continue reading A Long-Term Solution For Pensions?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Nicole Bullock of the Financial Times reports, The crumbling assumptions of US public pension plans: The governor’s office for Illinois, a state with notoriously weak finances, this week issued a stark warning about what might … Continue reading Pension Pulse: Are US Public Pensions Crumbling?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Brett Shipp of WFAA reports, Dallas police, fire pension board facing disaster: The past month has been an emotional roller coaster for Dallas police and firemen. Thursday afternoon, the bad news continued. The Dallas Police … Continue reading Disaster Strikes Dallas Police & Fire Pension?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Reuters reports, Chicago mayor’s big plan to save its pension fund: Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled a plan on Wednesday that he called “an honest approach” to save the city’s biggest retirement system from insolvency with … Continue reading Chicago’s Pitchforks and Torches?
Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Herbert Lash and Marc Jones of Reuters report, World stocks tumble as Britain votes for EU exit: Global capital markets reeled on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union, with $2 trillion … Continue reading Europe’s Minsky Moment?