Private Pensions in OECD Countries - Australia
As most other OECD Member countries had already done, Australia has, since 1991, supplemented an existing flat-rate universal (but means-tested) residence-based old-age pension by a compulsory...
Decentralised Portfolio Management: Analysis of Australian Accumulation Funds
In Australia, pension fund trustees choose investment managers on behalf of members. We investigate the structure and performance of delegated investment choice in the Australian retirement incomes...
New evidence on pension plan design and administrative expenses: the Australian experience
BATEMAN, HAZEL, MITCHELL, OLIVIA S.
Policymakers seeking to design efficient and smoothly functioning pension systems for their aging workforces are beginning to acknowledge the key importance of administrative expenses when...
Decentralized investment management: an analysis of non-profit pension funds
We investigate delegated investment management in private pension accounts using data from Australian accumulation (superannuation) funds. In Australian non-profit pension funds, trustees choose...
Taxes, Retirement Transfers, and Annuities.
Bateman, Hazel, Kingston, Geoffrey, Piggott, John
In most countries, retirement benefits from pension saving must be taken as an annuity. By contrast, Australia allows benefits to be taken as a lump sum and instead has recently introduced various...
Choices and Constraints over Retirement Income Streams: Comparing Rules and Regulations
The new Simplified Superannuation regulations for Australian superannuation provide tax concessions to retirement income streams which comply with legislated minimum drawdown rules. We evaluate these...
Choices and constraints over retirement income streams: comparing rules and regulations
The new Simplified Superannuation regulations for Australian superannuation provide tax concessions to retirement income streams which comply with legislated minimum drawdown rules. We evaluate these...
Choices and Constraints over Retirement Income Streams: Comparing Rules and Regulations
The new Simplified Superannuation regulations for Australian superannuation provide tax concessions to retirement income streams which comply with legislated minimum drawdown rules. We evaluate these...
Compulsory Superannuation and Australian Generational Accounts
This paper investigates the potential effects of compulsory superannuation (saving for retirement) and related policies on the relative fiscal burdens to be borne by different generations of...
Bateman,Hazel, Kingston,Geoffrey, Piggott,John
Forced Saving offers an analysis of pension policy from an economic perspective. It begins with an overview of the problem of population ageing around the world, and then provides a framework within...
Bateman,Hazel, Kingston,Geoffrey, Piggott,John
Forced Saving offers an analysis of pension policy from an economic perspective. It begins with an overview of the problem of population ageing around the world, and then provides a framework within...