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Australian retirement system weakens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... economically sustainable is diminishing. Australia has slipped down the ranks of the annual Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index to fourth place. With a score of 72.6, Australia has been bumped from third place by Finland (74.5) and just managed to ...

Retirement spending declines faster than believed: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... earnings, which is used by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, does not reflect the experience of individual retirees as they age, though it is useful for comparable system-wide view ...

Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... world-class but maintaining its global top-three status is proving ever more difficult. The 2017 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, released today, shows that for the second consecutive year the strength of Australia's pension system has slipped ...

Access to super for housing is still bad policy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... success of the superannuation system, which is ranked as the third best in the world by the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index," SMSF Association managing director and chief executive Andrea Slattery added. Anthony hopes the housing affordability ...

Pension systems and ageing populations at crossroads

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... adapt to ageing populations and declining birth rates. Knox fired the warning as the 2016 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index was launched this morning. Research prepared for the index has found life expectancies at birth have increased by seven to ...

PROFILE: Mercer senior partner David Knox

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... his contribution to retirement outcomes and innovative work through projects such as the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index and products such as Mercer Lifetime Plus. Although Knox is reluctant to point to one project or product that he favours, Lifetime ...

Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... but it doesn't necessarily guarantee it being the most sustainable. Rankings for the 2015 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI) were released last night and Australia has slipped from second to third overall as a result of the nation slowly reforming ...

ACFS director steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... as the CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Research Cluster, Funding Australia's Future, and the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. "The linkages she has forged between industry, academia and government is probably her strongest legacy," ACFS chairman Jeremy ...

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 ...

Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The 2012 Mercer Global Pension Index has shown that Australia has come in third place out of 18 countries, beating the likes of Switzerland, Canada and the UK. The index which covers over half of the world's population has found that Australia's retirement ...