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What can we expect from the Retirement Income Review?

  • On 24/07/2020
Today, the Treasurer will receive the 600+ page report of the Retirement Income Review (“Review”). The brief for the Panel is “to establish a fact base of the current retirement income system that will improve understanding of its operation and the outcomes it is delivering for Australians”.  The Panel has been asked to identify: how […]
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Spending in retirement and the taper rate

  • On 05/06/2020
The Dialogue is a series of papers written by actuaries and published by the Actuaries Institute. The papers aim to stimulate discussion on important, emerging issues. The latest Dialogue paper by Andrew Boal explores the effects of the taper rate on spending in retirement.
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Is reforming tax on super the way forward?

  • On 22/05/2020
The path to reform Last September, the government set up a review into the retirement income system, in response to a recommendation made by the Productivity Commission.  It will cover the progress of the system after 25 years of mandatory contributions (known as SG) deducted from wages, and how the system is expected to perform […]
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