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Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Australia's pension system is the second best in the world, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. With a score of 79.9%, Australia outperformed the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden in the index, and was just behind Denmark ...

US private sector super coverage just 50pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... financial services industry to realise that while employer plans are important they not the only component of the US retirement system. Nevertheless, as is the case in Australia, for workers with low lifetime income Social Security provides the bulk ...

Mercer expands infrastructure team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... for the Pacific arm of the investment business. Billimoria joins Mercer from the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), where he was a portfolio manager specialising in infrastructure and forestland. Prior to that he held roles at ...

More super changes inevitable: EY report

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Further changes to superannuation regulations are inevitable and more work is needed to improve confidence in the system, according to EY's Australia-based global pension leader Graeme McKenzie. Releasing EY's new report, 'Building a better retirement ...

FSC bids to lead retirement income debate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... opportunity and lead the debate on taking superannuation from a world class accumulation scheme to the world's best retirement system. He said superannuation and retirement income policy must be seen in the overall context of short, medium and long-term ...

Hastings sell US natural gas terminal for huge profit

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... able to originate, manage and maximise the value in Freeport for one of our North American clients the Teacher Retirement System of Texas invested via ZHIP, and our Australian clients, Utilities Trust of Australia and The Infrastructure Fund. This investment ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... they really do is build up savings and give them to you at the end. Now we're trying to convert that into a retirement system. Most defined contribution (DC) countries - the US, us, the UK - are struggling with this back end. It's not a fatal problem ...

Larry Fink pays tribute to Australian super system

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... a policy model the US should examine in an op-ed in the weekend New York Times notwithstanding a compulsory retirement system would struggle to gain Congressional support.

Think tank calls to end super tax concessions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... universal pension would create a level playing field amongst income groups and reduce the inequality in Australia's retirement system. Superannuation could then act as a top-up for those who can afford it," the report's authors, David Ingles and Richard ...

Women need 7% more super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... widely held view that the extent of the superannuation gap between men and women, and show that a private-sector retirement system pegged to income significantly favours men. It also shows that raising women's wages would not be enough in itself to solve ...