A voluntary initiative by private sector financial interests to exchange higher yielding government debt instruments, for lower-yielding, but longer tenure instruments, to help the ailing Jamaican economy, may have backfired with the rating agency S&P interpreting this as a "distressed debt" call.
BPM Financial launched its IRA dubbed 'Personal Pension' on July 13, 2010. It was a natural fit for a company which has been in the retirement-planning business for over fifteen years.