News Articles and Other Interesting Research
- Life-cycle Design To and Thru Retirement, Rice Warner Dec. 2019. Better design can lift outcomes by 35%.
- Better-Retirement-Outcomes-a-snapshot-of-account-balances-in-Australia, ASFA July 2019
- How sub-optimal are age-based life-cycle investment products_July 2019, ANU. The main issue is not whether life-cycle or target date funds are inherently flawed, but rather how they can be designed to accord with the preferences of the investor.
- Investing_in_our_Future_report_2019 – World Economic Forum – June 2019. Consider risk from the perspective of an individual saving for retirement – more tailoring, better default outcomes.
- Retirees worldwide may run out of money 10 years before they die, The Age 16 June 2019
- Frontier Line 147 – Best in Show or Worst to Go – Frontier Line May 2019. The focus should be on improved outcomes for members, not just less funds for the sake of it.
- Member Outcomes Assessment – Guide how on cohorting and measuring outcomes
- Well-designed life-cycle products can produce benefits greater than or equivalent to single-strategy balanced products, while better addressing sequencing risk for members – Productivity Commission Finding 4.3 and Report and technical supplement ‘Analysis of Members’ needs
- The value proposition of life-cycle funds: opportunity cost or risk management tool? Actuaries Digital
- Innovation in Superannuation – Smart MySuper Default Report (Financial Services Council)
- Productivity Commission hearing – TSS 20 June 2018
- Upping the risk will pay off for younger super fund members (SMH Oct 2017)
- Tailored MySuper products would lift retirement balances by 35% (Super Review Sept 2017)
- ‘Next generation’ life-cycle funds needed (Investor Daily Sept 2017)
- Tailoring key to healthy retirement savings (Financial Observer Sept 2017)
- MySuper gets smarter (Shed Sept 2017)
- Assessing the Long Term Return of Australian Superannuation Funds (AIST, Monash Business School, Sept 2017)
- Press Release ( FSC Sept 2017)
- We’ll Live to 100 – How Can We Afford It? (World Economic Forum May 2017
- Smart Defaults: why trustees dumping MySuper members in one investment bucket is no longer good enough in this digital age. (Adviservoice 22 March 2017)
- How to assess the competitiveness and efficiency of the superannuation system Productivity Commission (Final report November 2016)
- CIFR submission to Productivity Commission on Default Model options recommending Smart Defaults (October 2016)
- Structure and Responsibilities in Default Superannuation Funds: Influences and Effectiveness (CIFR 2015)
- CIFR Project on Default Superannuation Funds: Summary of Main Findings and Implications August 2015
- MySuper Lifecycle Factors: Regulation 9.47, Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994.
- New Tax incentives for innovation from 1 July 2016
- Treasury Objective of Superannuation Discussion Paper – 2016
- HSBC Retirement Funding Shortfall
- Trustee Responsibilities and Covenants S52 SIS Act