Kaspanz Chair’s (Alec Waugh’s) Report on Meeting An audience at the Auckland Business School on 23 September 2013 were enthralled listening to Dr Alison “Connell talking about the evolving United Kingdom Pension system and the transformation from a messy and complicated system to a much more simplistic one, a change adopting similarities to the New…
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Consumer Price index records changes in the price of consumer goods, brought by New Zealand households, giving a measure of inflation An independent advisory committee has endorsed the practices used to compile the consumers price index (CPI) and has recommended ways the CPI can be further enhanced. On July 10 Statistics NZ published the Report…
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OUR PRESIDENT’S (Alec Waugh) VIEW How much is enough? An Australian group “Association of Superannuation funds” said a comfortable retirement for Australians, was $A56.296 for a couple, and A$41,090 for a single person. Tom Thompson writing in World Investor a New Zealand publication, said a common rule of thumb is retirees need enough to replace…
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Subject: RPRC Forum 23 September: Does the UK’s reform of pensions have lessons for New Zealand? The Retirement Policy and Research Centre is hosting the forum: Does the UK’s reform of pensions have lessons for New Zealand? When: 3pm to 5.30pm, 23 September 2013
This thoughtful article passed on by Alec Waugh but which requires a bit of reading read article here
Those who can work longer would enjoy a higher rate of super than those who could not, deepening class lines among pensioners. Peter Dunne has dunne it again. Like his floundering Income Sharing Bill, Flexi-Super looks like a solution to something – but to what? Associate Professor Susan St John is co-director of the Retirement Policy…
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If the New Zealand Herald editorial supports the Flexible NZ Superannuation plan, perhaps be wary? The New Zealand Herald has consistently resorted to crisis rhetoric headlines and comment re retirement income issues, including a call for all workers to retire at 70, a reliance on long term projections which are nearly worthless in their accuracy,…
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On 9 August Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully announced improved pension portability for those looking to retire to the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau from New Zealand. People who are entitled to NZ Super will be able to depart New Zealand to live in one of these three countries after the age of 55 and…
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Read Peter Dunne’s controversial proposal here
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