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Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
The Actuaries Institute's annual summit has seen a fiery debate between the chief executive of the Grattan Institute and Mercer's David Knox over ideal retirement incomes. Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley and Mercer senior partner ...

Life expectancy declining: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... according to Willis Towers Watson. Such schemes are also popular in Japan (96%), Canada (95%) and the Netherlands (94%). The Grattan Institute believes Australians can expect to live 82.5 years on average - a life expectancy longer than most countries ...

Labor proposal targets low income earners: Association

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... to full-time workers not taking into account the 46.3% of women working part-time.There is disagreement on this figure. Grattan Institute research from April this year said the average wage for all workers is $67,243, for all taxpayers that number drops ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Grattan Institute has renewed calls to scrap the Superannuation Guarantee increase as its updated projections show most Australian workers will only cop - at worst - an 11% fall in their income after retiring. The think tank updated its retirement income ...

IFM Investors chair lays out priorities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... stuck by the plan to increase superannuation guarantee to 12% from the current 9.5% which has contested been contested by Grattan Institute in the past. He reiterated that industry funds were beating retail funds in performance, as published in the Productivity ...

Labor franking credit changes fair but not the best: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
Grattan Institute has called Labor's plan to end refunds of excess franking credits a "fair way" to improve the Federal Budget but it is still "second-best" as there are better solutions. Grattan's budget policy director Danielle Wood and fellow ...

We must do better: ASFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... ASFA will recommence advocacy for increasing the superannuation guarantee to 12%. In doing so, Easson hit back at the Grattan Institute's recent claims that an increase is unnecessary. "We need to put 12% back on the agenda... These misinterpretations ...

Grattan says Aussies retiring comfortably, ISA responds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
Australians are retiring with more than enough, according to new research from Grattan Institute but ISA and ASFA don't agree. Grattan Institute modelling found that most workers can expect retirement income of at least 91% of their pre-retirement ...

Super fund welcomes industry veteran to trustee board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... has over 30 years experience in the industry. She is currently a non-executive director at HSBC Bank Australia and the Grattan Institute. She chairs the ACT Government's investment advisory board and is a member of the General Sir John Monash Foundation's ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... structural policy reforms for women, 80% of whom don't have enough upon retirement. ASFA has condemned Melbourne-based Grattan Institute's research that argues lifting SG will "hurt living standards" of low-income earners - majority of whom are women ...