The battle over the future of Australia’s superannuation system is being fought on the same old ground of accumulation, leaving the real issue unattended – the welfare of millions of people entering retirement, writes Patricia Pascuzzo.
Super’s Final Leg Still Not Sorted
By Patricia Pascuzzo, Founder, CSRI Just before Christmas, a Treasury discussion paper suggested an approach on the regulation of superannuation retirement benefits – so called Comprehensive Income Products in Retirement (CIPRs) or ‘MyRetirement’ as Treasury preferred. You might well ask why – after 25 years of compulsory super and thousands of pages of legislation, regulation… Read More
A New Era for Super
The federal government’s recent deal on reforming superannuation tax concessions may have taken some political heat out of the issue, but the challenge of building a more sustainable retirement income system looms larger than ever, writes Patricia Pascuzzo.
