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Website: Retirement Commission
Email: office@retirement.govt.nz
Last Publication Date: 1 Aug 2013
This report has been prepared in response to a request from the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income for a summary of what we know…
Last Publication Date: 13 Jun 2013
This report presents the results of the third national survey of financial knowledge levels of adult New Zealanders. The Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income,…
Last Publication Date: 1 May 2013
This paper is one of a number of background papers commissioned by the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income for the 2013 Review of Retirement…
Last Publication Date: 1 Apr 2013
The last few decades have seen a dramatic transformation in the arena of retirement security. This transformation is marked by two significant changes: individuals have become…
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund invests money, on behalf of the Government, to help pay for the increased cost of universal superannuation entitlements (New Zealand Superannuation)…
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2013
This report provides background for the 2013 Review of Retirement Income policy by the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income (CFLRI) on the role of…
For the financial system, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/9 has been the largest seismic event for at least 70 years. While the crisis is not…
There are two main differences between the retirement systems of Australia and New Zealand. First, Australia’s age pension is means tested while New Zealand’s is universal.…
This paper aims to provide background information for those conducting the 2013 review of New Zealand’s retirement income and for New Zealanders who wish to participate…
As elsewhere, New Zealand faces major challenges in successfully managing the trend known as ‘population ageing’ (Jackson, 2007), illustrated at Figures 1 and 2. Although structurally…