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Fifth pillar in retirement system considered

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The Retirement Income Review (RIR) has discussed the possibility of a fifth pillar in Australia's retirement income system based on a suggestion from the World Bank in 2008. The review noted that currently Australia has three pillars: the Age Pension ...

Homeowners given preferential treatment: RIR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The Retirement Income Review found the treatment of housing in the Age Pension assets test provides more support to homeowners compared to non-home owners. The review found the preferential treatment given to home ownership leads to inequities in the ...

Household capital remains key: RIR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The Retirement Income Review (RIR) has found home ownership is an important element in an adequate retirement, but not at the expense of all other income generating options. The potential fourth pillar of the Australian retirement income system, accessing ...

Frydenberg unveils Retirement Income Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... report this morning, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg presented "evidence-based, independent" findings of the Retirement Income Review with Minister for Superannuation, Financials Services and Financial Technology Jane Hume, that will form the foundations of ...

Treasury expected to release retirement review

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
Nearly four months after Treasury received the Retirement Income Review's final report, it is expected to be released to the public tomorrow. An independent three-person panel of Treasury veteran Mike Callaghan, former Future Fund board member and ...

Stapling equals accountability: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... underperforming or "not living up to its own standards," she said. Hume also hinted that the highly-anticipated Retirement Income Review is a comprehensive analysis of the three pillars of the retirement system and will not offer recommendations. She ...

Stephen Jones admits to anti-life insurance bias

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... Australia getting out of this." Again, Jones called for the government to release the findings of the retirement income review - which he said has been sitting with the government for two months unreleased.

Release the Retirement Income Review: Labor

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... joined ASFA and the Business Council of Australia in demanding the government release the long-awaited Retirement Income Review ahead of more changes to super. Jones, who was speaking at an online event for ASFA, criticised the government's latest raft ...

Hume clarifies survival of the fittest in MySuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... of board meetings for some of the biggest super funds and have spoken to them candidly." Hume said the Retirement Income Review is 650 pages long and addresses all aspects of retirement income, not just super. She did not specify when it would be rel ...

Super industry cautious on more reform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... role of superannuation," said ASFA chief executive Martin Fahy. "In the absence of the release of the Retirement Income Review and the lack of specificity in the Budget papers, it is unclear how the changes will work in practice or what the implications ...