{"id":97654,"date":"2026-02-20T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murray.adv.br\/?p=97654"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:19:51","slug":"rate-cuts-raise-concern-over-r28bn-pension-fund-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murray.adv.br\/en\/rate-cuts-raise-concern-over-r28bn-pension-fund-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rate cuts raise concern over R$28bn pension fund deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content--header\">\n<div class=\"row content-head non-featured \">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h6 class=\"content-head__title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Nearly a fifth of employer-sponsored plans show shortfall as bond-heavy portfolios face test<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__signa-share\">\n<div class=\"content__signature\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data__text\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data__from\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-publication-data__updated\"><time datetime=\"2026-02-20T07:06:54.881-03:00\">02\/20\/2026\u00a0<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"mc-article-body\" class=\"mc-article-body \">\n<article>\n<div class=\"no-paywall\">\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"53\" data-block-id=\"2\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Billion-real deficits at Brazilian pension funds are drawing scrutiny and raising concern as interest rates are expected to decline this year. Data from the Ministry of Social Security show that 233 of the country\u2019s 1,129 pension plans had accumulated a combined deficit of R$28 billion as of September 2025, the latest available figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wall protected-content\">\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"57\" data-block-id=\"3\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The most problematic are defined benefit (DB) plans, the oldest and often structurally flawed. They account for 55% of the pension funds\u2019 total assets and posted a deficit of R$2.7 billion through September last year. However, cyclical issues in variable contribution (VC) and defined contribution (DC) plans have also fueled concern and weighed on overall sector results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"58\" data-block-id=\"4\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">A survey by the National Superintendence for Supplementary Pensions (Previc), requested by Valor, shows 199 deficit equalization plans are under way at 89 closed supplementary pension entities (EFPCs). These are entities sponsored by public or private companies, or with multiple sponsors, that have been charging additional contributions to rebalance assets and liabilities, most of them implemented through 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"32\" data-block-id=\"6\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Alcinei Rodrigues, Previc\u2019s director of regulation, said the concentration of 86% of pension funds\u2019 portfolios in fixed income, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/valorinternational.globo.com\/markets\/news\/2025\/07\/09\/pension-funds-hit-record-allocation-in-government-bonds.ghtml\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/valorinternational.globo.com\/markets\/news\/2025\/07\/09\/pension-funds-hit-record-allocation-in-government-bonds.ghtml\">almost entirely in federal government bonds<\/a>, \u201cis an aberration\u201d that worries the regulator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"42\" data-block-id=\"7\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">\u201cWith real interest rates over the next two years, it will still be comfortable to meet the actuarial target,\u201d he said. \u201cBut markets anticipate events, so the best investment opportunities arise early, and you have to move ahead with the correct diagnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"3\" data-block-id=\"8\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\"><strong>Slow portfolio shift<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"41\" data-block-id=\"9\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Rodrigues said the regulator\u2019s concern is that to remain solvent and secure in 2028 and 2029, funds must begin preparing this year. \u201cI am worried about this migration. Pension funds do not make U-turns. They are like ocean liners moving slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"116\" data-block-id=\"10\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">He added that pension funds have lost the expertise to manage risk assets and need to rebuild that capacity. In 2010, equities accounted for 33% of sector assets; by 2025, that share had fallen to 8%. Globally, he noted, pension fund portfolios tend to be roughly evenly split among equities, private fixed income and alternatives such as private equity, structured products and real estate. \u201cThere is no allocation to government bonds. But in Brazil, pension funds rushed into the easy returns of high interest rates, which mask performance by delivering high yields on risk-free assets such as sovereign bonds. Now, with the market expecting the start of monetary easing, we will return to normality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"54\" data-block-id=\"12\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">In 2025, high interest rates helped funds move from a R$9.8 billion deficit in December 2024 to a small surplus of R$10 million as of September, Ministry of Social Security data show. The R$2.7 billion deficit in DB plans, while still significant, marked a sharp improvement from the R$11.2 billion shortfall in December 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"24\" data-block-id=\"13\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Only variable contribution plans posted a surplus last year, totaling R$3.2 billion. Defined contribution plans posted a deficit of R$558 million through September 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"2\" data-block-id=\"14\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\"><strong>More vulnerable<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"56\" data-block-id=\"15\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Rodrigues said smaller pension funds with DC plans require closer monitoring, as their exposure to government bonds is even higher. DB plans, by contrast, are larger, have greater allocations to risk assets and maintain bigger, more qualified teams. \u201cConventional wisdom says DC plans outperform DB plans, but in terms of returns the reality is the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"53\" data-block-id=\"16\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">He cited data showing that over the past 15 years, cumulative returns reached 397% for DB plans, compared with 337% for DC plans and 370% for VC plans. Of the 4.1 million participants in pension funds today, 887,000 are in DB plans, 1.9 million in DC plans and 1.3 million in VC plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"34\" data-block-id=\"17\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Rodrigues said the concentration of actuarial deficits in DB plans often stems from rising liabilities triggered by decisions beyond plan management, such as changes in career and salary structures or increases in life expectancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"2\" data-block-id=\"18\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\"><strong>Governance disputes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"53\" data-block-id=\"19\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">One example is Fapes, the pension fund for employees of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). In 2002 and 2004, BNDES, its investment arm BNDESPar and its financing unit Finame signed debt acknowledgment agreements and later injected R$5.8 billion, in updated values, into Fapes\u2019 defined benefit Basic Benefits Plan (PBB) in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"38\" data-block-id=\"20\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The amount unilaterally covered actuarial deficits caused, among other factors, by a 1989 reduction in the contribution ceiling for Brazil\u2019s National Social Security Institute (INSS), which increased supplementary benefit payments, as well as job reclassifications and position unifications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"45\" data-block-id=\"22\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">In addition, a change in employees\u2019 contracts increased the daily work schedule by one hour, which, a Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) report said, \u201crequired the establishment of an actuarial counterpart corresponding to the increase in Fapes\u2019 mathematical reserves, in the total amount of R$337,833,460.58.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"66\" data-block-id=\"23\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The Secretariat for Coordination and Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (Sest), formerly known as Dest, opposed the injections and said \u201cwhat exists in the PBB [Basic Benefits Plan] is an actuarial deficit, originating from insufficient funding of the plan and from recent negative investment results that failed to meet the actuarial target, and which must be funded by the sponsor and participants in proportion to their contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"17\" data-block-id=\"24\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The TCU also ruled the injections were irregular because they were unilateral, without matching contributions from employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"30\" data-block-id=\"25\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">After a decade-long legal dispute, a 2024 agreement between Fapes and the BNDES set the terms for reimbursement. The pension fund will repay up to R$1.55 billion over 30 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"25\" data-block-id=\"26\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Plan participants may migrate to a defined contribution plan. Those who switch will have their share deducted from the R$1.55 billion established in the agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"2\" data-block-id=\"27\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\"><strong>Migration deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"56\" data-block-id=\"28\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Fapes declined to comment, but on a dedicated website created for the issue it says that \u201cafter the migration, the final amount to be repaid by the PBB to the sponsors will be determined and a specific Deficit Equalization Plan (PED) will be implemented for that repayment.\u201d Participants have until midyear to decide whether to migrate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"31\" data-block-id=\"29\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Another high-profile case is Petros, the pension fund for employees of state-owned oil giant Petrobras. Its defined benefit Petrobras System Plans (PPSP), which cover 52,000 participants, have a R$42 billion deficit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"36\" data-block-id=\"30\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Sponsors, participants and retirees already receiving benefits are currently paying additional contributions ranging from 17% to 20% of their gross monthly income and 30% of their 13th salary to cover deficits from 2018, 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"43\" data-block-id=\"32\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The company, the pension fund and participants are negotiating a migration to a defined contribution plan, in talks mediated by Previc and Sest and monitored by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU). Discussions now center on ending lawsuits seeking coverage of the deficit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"41\" data-block-id=\"33\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Petrobras said it \u201cvalues open dialogue with labor unions\u201d regarding the PEDs (Deficit Equalization Plans). \u201cThe search for a solution to the issue remains under study by a multidisciplinary group, which includes representative entities of participants, and the work is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"49\" data-block-id=\"34\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Petros said it \u201cis sensitive to the impact of equalizing the PPSP-R [Petrobras System Plan] and PPSP-NR plans for participants and treats the matter as a priority. The search for a solution is being conducted within the Quadripartite Commission, which includes representatives of participants, the sponsor and supervisory bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"24\" data-block-id=\"35\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The pension fund added that it has adopted an investment management approach with \u201cgreater predictability of returns and consistently contributes to delivering solid results.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"3\" data-block-id=\"36\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\"><strong>Stable despite deficits<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"33\" data-block-id=\"37\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Devanir Silva, president of the Brazilian Association of Closed Supplementary Pension Entities (Abrapp), stressed the distinction between structural and cyclical deficits in the sector, the latter caused, for example, by declines in equities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"65\" data-block-id=\"38\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">In his view, roughly R$28 billion in both types of deficits does not endanger the system, which has total net assets of R$1.4 trillion. \u201cThere is no alternative but to equalize, and a solution cannot be postponed when it exceeds the limits set by CNPC Resolution 30\/2018 [which establishes criteria for calculating and allocating results], but it is not something that undermines the system\u2019s stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"17\" data-block-id=\"39\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Brazil currently has 264 closed supplementary pension entities and 1,129 plans, Ministry of Social Security data show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"34\" data-block-id=\"40\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Last year, Previc proposed to the National Supplementary Pension Council (CNPC) changes to the current model for calculating results to determine whether deficit equalization plans should be implemented and how surpluses should be allocated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"62\" data-block-id=\"42\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The proposal creates a tolerance period of up to three years for pension funds to resolve problems and return to target without charging extra contributions to participants. The idea is to give pension entities time to absorb temporary fluctuations in their solvency ratio. It also recommends that the combined normal and extraordinary contributions be capped at 35% of salary or pension benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"26\" data-block-id=\"43\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">In addition, the regulator revised the parameters of its Annual Supervision and Monitoring Program (PAF) and, since 2024, has expanded oversight of funds to prevent problems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"2\" data-block-id=\"44\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\"><strong>Longevity risk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"31\" data-block-id=\"45\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Giancarlo Germany, president of the Brazilian Institute of Actuaries (IBA), also said the system is balanced and benefits from predictable returns due to the large share invested in government bonds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"35\" data-block-id=\"46\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">He noted that rising life expectancy is a risk not yet fully priced into pension fund accounts and will require measures to avoid future deficits. The pace at which longevity will increase, however, remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"40\" data-block-id=\"47\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">\u201cIn the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was a migration from DB plans to individual plans, DCs and VCs, which were not well designed,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThose participants are now reaching retirement without sufficient savings, lacking adequate pension coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"37\" data-block-id=\"48\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Germany said other countries are seeking a new sustainable model, but few have reached firm conclusions. The idea is to find a middle ground between DB and DC plans, with risk shared between companies and employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"26\" data-block-id=\"49\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">In Brazil, there is also debate over hiring reinsurers, with risk premiums paid collectively to provide coverage in the event of deficits caused by increased longevity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"48\" data-block-id=\"50\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Another option would be to use surpluses to build reserves for future shortfalls instead of returning money to participants. \u201cIt is a challenge to be faced, but the new models are still being tested around the world and we do not know whether they will succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">*By\u00a0Liane Thedim\u00a0\u2014 Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n<p data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Source: Valor International<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/valorinternational.globo.com\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a fifth of employer-sponsored plans show shortfall as bond-heavy portfolios face test &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 02\/20\/2026\u00a0 Billion-real deficits at Brazilian pension funds are drawing scrutiny and raising concern as interest rates are expected to decline this year. 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