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Rice Warner’s submission to Retirement Income Review

  • On 12/02/2020
Rice Warner’s latest report has been prepared in response to a call for submissions from the Retirement Income Review (Consultation Paper, November 2019). Given the many strengths of the system, it does not need major reform.  However, there are areas where the system could be modified to provide more efficient and effective outcomes.  The recent […]
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Lifecycle Design – To and Through Retirement

  • On 03/12/2019
This paper was written by Richard Dunn and Michael Berg and presented at the 27th Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research on December 2, 2019. This paper investigates the connection between investment horizon and growth allocation within superannuation to establish how funds might better design solutions for the approximately 80% of members who adopt the […]
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Options for an Improved and Integrated System of Retirement

  • On 22/08/2019
This Green Paper is an initiative of the Actuaries Institute’s Public Policy team and was written by Anthony Asher, David Knox and Michael Rice. It draws on three Papers presented at the Actuaries Financial Services Forum in May 2018, namely: The Age Pension means test: contorting Australian retirement (Dr Anthony Asher & John De Ravin) […]
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Submission – Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members’ Interests First) Bill 2019.

  • On 24/07/2019
This letter has been prepared in response to a call for submissions from the Senate Economic Legislation Committee regarding the Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members’ Interests First) Bill 2019. Rice Warner supports the objectives of the package, and the already implemented changes in Protecting Your Superannuation (PYS), due to the importance of designing insurance that […]
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What is the right level of SG?

  • On 05/06/2019
Mandatory superannuation contributions have grown from the original 3% Award contributions of the 1980s to 9.5% and are legislated to get to 12% in 2025.  Yet, there has been little comprehensive analysis of the right level of Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions, nor any strategic work on the impact on the economy and member retirement outcomes.  […]
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