Topic: Chile

Mandating Annuities in Retirement

Dan Ariely had an interesting column in the latest issue of HBR, talking about how Chile forces its citizens to save money and annuitize their pensions: But a Chilean technocrat, Axel Christensen, responded on the HBR website, saying that Ariely misunderstood what ...

Want People to Save? Force Them.

In Chile last June, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Felipe Kast, the new government s minister of planning, and a few of his compadres. So investment choices are left to the individual, with limits on too-risky behavior, especially ...
The great Financial Panic of 2008 and mini stock market crash is over and we can all breathe again. Here is a key reason why a sell rule is important for your portfolio. Suppose you were a value investor holding FNM and ...

Your Summer Portfolio

It's summer time, and while rising unemployment may undermine the cliche that the living's easy, the investing world does, generally, take somewhat of a breather during these more torpid times. Carol Pepper, the head of family investment firm Pepper International, has a ...
There are three main methods you can use to transfer money overseas. money orders, bank transfers and cash transfers. By far the most convenient way to transfer money these days is to do a cash transfer through a specialist money transfer company. ...