Investing in Private Equity in Brazil by Antônio Marcos Duarte Junior, Luiz Carlos Barbosa Medeiros

“…Real data obtained from one of the largest pension funds in Brazil is used to illustrate a practical application of the methodology when selecting investments among eleven private equity funds available in the local financial market. …”
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Características sociodemográficas y condiciones de riesgo de la persona adulta mayor en situación de pobreza extrema frente a la pandemia por COVID-19 by Rosa María Pretell Aguilar, Rodolfo Amado Arevalo Marcos, Jeannette Giselle Avila Vargas-Machuca, Milagros Lizbeth Uturunco Vera

“… Objetivo: Identificar las características sociodemográficas y condiciones de riesgo de las personas adultas mayores, usuarios del Programa Pensión 65, frente a la COVID-19. Material y métodos: Diseño observacional, enfoque cuantitativo, descriptivo de corte transversal. …”
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Do the COVID-19 Crisis, Ageing and Climate Change Put Swiss Fiscal Sustainability at Risk? by Thomas Brändle, Pierre-Alain Bruchez, Carsten Colombier, Martin Baur, Lukas Hohl

“…As the analysis shows, the brunt of the demographic burden is borne by the old-age pension scheme, health and long-term care. This article also addresses the financial ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis and shows the need for economic policy action over the longer term to ensure the sustainability of public finances in Switzerland. …”
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Work loss in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with abatacept, rituximab, tocilizumab or TNF inhibitors: a nationwide direct drug-to-drug comparison by Ulf Lindström, Johan Askling, Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Lotta Ljung, Lars Klareskog, Martin Neovius, Nils Feltelius, Eva Baecklund, Christopher Sjöwall, Helena Forsblad-d’Elia, Carl Turesson, Elisabet Lindqvist, Thomas Frisell, Alf Kastbom, Helena Forsblad-d'Elia, Jonas Söderling, Ann Knight, Gerd-Marie Alenius, Gustaf Magnus Bruze

“…Data on work loss (0–365 days per year) from sick leave and disability pension were retrieved from linkage to the Social Insurance Agency. …”
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Usage de l’instruction au sosie pour la conception d’actions de formation en situation de travail (AFEST) : une illustration avec des liquidateurs/trices de retraite by Stéphane Balas, Solange Ciavaldini-Cartaut, Jean-François Métral

“…On the basis of empirical material collected from pension liquidators, we are studying how the instruction to the double makes it possible to identify the learning situations for an AFEST but also how this approach can constitute a training device for the actors. …”
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Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia by Janet McCalman

“…It has also preserved all service and pension data from both world wars. Through nominal linkage using volunteers and paid research staff, it has been possible over the past twenty years to build four cradle-to-grave datasets derived from administrative cohorts: poor white babies born in a charity hospital 1858–1900; Aboriginal Victorians from 1855 to 1988; convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1818-1853 and servicemen who embarked for World War I from the State of Victoria. …”
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Labour Market Participation of Older Workers: Drivers and Obstacles by Ulrich Walwei, Jürgen Deller

“…The cases also provde information on pension reforms and approaches to better manage ageing workforces, in some cases including a new balance of work and retirement. …”
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DOENÇAS SEM DOENTES: OCORRÊNCIA DE DISTÚRBIOS OSTEOMUSCULARES RELACIONADOS AO TRABALHO – DORT NOS OPERADORES DE CAIXA DE UM BANCO by Moizés Martins Junior, Maria Christine Werba Saldanha

“…The reasons that lead the company to evade information about the occurrence of WRMD are not admitting the existence in the workplace of the causal agent of diseases of the employee, ensure that the employee get the benefit of stability accident, do not deposit the contribution of 8% of FGTS, not to admit his guilt as a generator of occupational disease t and not to increase pension statistics.…”
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Sistema previsional y modelación de los derechos de la vejez en Argentina (2003-2017) by MAURO CRISTECHE, PABLO MUÑOZ

“…Luego se presenta una síntesis de las transformaciones en la estructura social argentina que motivaron las reformas previsionales, y finalmente se analizan específicamente los dos programas más importantes del período: el "Plan de Inclusión Previsional" y la "Pensión Universal para el Adulto Mayor". En las consideraciones finales se busca dar cuenta del impacto social y económico de las transformaciones en el sistema previsional en el período.…”
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Spain: socio-economic development in the context of the present demographic challenge by Galina N. Ponedelko

“…Predicted for 2050 the shifts in the age structure of the population and a reduction in it the share of the most working-age group (from 16 to 45 years) with a simultaneous sharp increase (up to 30%) in the oldest age group of the population (over 65 years) will lead to further depopulation of a significant part of the country’s territory, a reduction in the number and the share of the employed population, an increase in the burden on the pension and health care systems and a weakening of the potential of the welfare state. …”
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INFLUENCIA DE LOS INVERSIONISTAS INSTITUCIONALES EN LAS DECISIONES DE ESTRUCTURA DE CAPITAL DE LA EMPRESA. Evidencia para un mercado emergente by Felipe Araya Sepúlveda, Mauricio Jara Bertin, Carlos Maquieira Villanueva, Pablo San Martín Mosqueira

“…Este artículo analiza empíricamente la influencia de las Administradoras de Fondos de Pensión (AFP) como principales accionistas institucionales, sobre las decisiones de estructura de capital de la empresa chilena. …”
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Digital platforms as the dominant vector of the global labor market development by N. E. Petrovskaya

“…Employment does not always save millions of workers from extreme poverty.The author highlights the lack of social guarantees, including hospital, medical and other types of insurance, including pension plans as one of the key problems of employment on digital labor platforms. …”
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Adieu, de Balzac : « Une absence au monde qui vient de se déclarer au cœur de l’histoire » by France Vernier

“…The fate of many “forgotten” victims of the Napoleonic campagnes was never far from Balzac’s literary concerns, and in addition to Le Colonel Chabert, one can find throughout his work various examples of soldiers of the old guard, either maimed or barely surviving on a meagre pension. There is, however, a less known short story, Adieu, which subject displays an astonishingly modern preoccupation, quite unusual for the period, obliging the author to invent a strange new narrative device, which I believe Balzac borrowed from the then recently discovered psychiatric practice implemented by Esquirol. …”
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Long-Run Savings and Investment Strategy Optimization by Russell Gerrard, Montserrat Guillén, Jens Perch Nielsen, Ana M. Pérez-Marín

“…This result is fundamental to prove that if risk aversion and the maximum possible loss are both high, then holding a constant amount invested in the risky asset is optimal for a standard lifetime saving/pension process and outperforms some other simple strategies. …”
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A Vision of the Policy Concerning the Financing and Management of Physical Infrastructure in Network Industries in Slovenia by Dejan Makovšek, Klavdij Logožar

“…However, these issues are not at the forefront of the public debate despite being as relevant today as the pension reform, if not even more. Until now, no government in Slovenia has adopted a systemic approach to infrastructure-related issues; instead, they have let partial interests prevail. …”
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Assets Liability Management: A bibliometric analysis and topic modeling by Orlando Joaqui-Barandica, Diego Fernando Manotas-Duque

“…Los resultados permiten concluir que la investigación cuantitativa ha sido ampliamente explotada a través de las 6 temáticas: Financial risk management, Stochastic modeling, Pension funds, Capital markets and the insurance industry, Mean-variance models, General optimization models. …”
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Improving the management of public spending on social support for families with children in the context of ensuring the strategic development of the Russian Federation by I. V. Balynin

“…Promising areas of research are issues related to assessment of the implementation impact of budgetary policy in field of social support for families with children on labor market and pension system (and vice versa). According to the results of the study, it is concluded that ensuring the strategic development of the Russian Federation requires solving the problems of population reproduction through the development of social support measures for families with children that do not form an increase in the expenditure obligations of the Russian Federation. …”
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The impact of socioeconomic status on the health of elderly individuals in China by Qu Meixia, Rajendra Baikady, Isahaque Ali, Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh, Azlinda Azman, Muhammed Kabir Uddin

“…Urban elderly populations particularly benefit from higher education and social class, while the effects of medical and pension insurance are mixed, suggesting that insured individuals often have pre-existing health issues. …”
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The family as an object of protection and a subject of law by Wojciech Lis

“…We can just point to the negative fertility rate, which affects the organisation of the pension system, the functioning of the labour market, the education system, the level of innovation and, consequently – GDP – which is one of the basic determinants of wealth.…”
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“Atendiendo a los meritos y servicio del Capn. Dn. Mariano Maicá”. Armas indígenas y orden político en la frontera sur de Buenos Aires durante la década de 1850 by María Sol Lanteri, Victoria Pedrotta

“…Por último, lo sucedido luego con la solicitud de pensión militar que efectuara su viuda. Se destaca la complejidad de las relaciones interétnicas, la necesidad del auxilio armado indígena ante los enfrentamientos políticos y el funcionamiento del orden estatal en la frontera, signado por prácticas consuetudinarias y el peso de condicionamientos y contingencias locales.…”
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