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Website: Retirement Commission
Email: office@retirement.govt.nz
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2013
This paper explores the connections between housing assets and retirement incomes. Older people’s high rates of home ownership today and rising house prices from about the…
Most industrialized countries have in recent decades seen their long-standing retirement income policies challenged by demographic challenges (longer life expectancy and lower fertility rates), accompanied…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2013
The 2013 review of retirement income policies considered the balance between eight separate objectives which overlap and sometimes even compete with each other. These position papers…
In New Zealand as in most modern economies the bulk of the cash income required to support the living standards of older people in retirement comes…
Last Publication Date: 12 Dec 2012
The New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001 requires the Retirement Commissioner to review the retirement income policies being implemented by the Government at three…
Last Publication Date: 1 Nov 2012
This paper relates to research that was commissioned to identify cultural and ethnic factors that might inhibit the ability of women to accumulate net worth. The…
Last Publication Date: 1 Aug 2012
This report was commissioned by the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income (the “Commission”) in November 2011. It is one part of a larger project…
Last Publication Date: 1 Apr 2012
This report summarises the findings from interviews with four women in their midfifties. The key purpose of the interviews was to find out about the women’s…
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2012
As the policy challenges of dealing simultaneously with an ageing population, increased costs of health care and welfare benefits, and economic and fiscal constraints, an increased…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2012
Women’s financial wellbeing and net worth in retirement are influenced by a variety of contextual factors and by decisions women make during their life cycle. New…
