The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the ANU's Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI) hosted a roundtable in March 2021 to examine the 2020 Retirement Income Review report and to consider its implications for further reform of the system. This paper draws heavily on the roundtable presentations and discussions.

APRA is supporting the Australian government in implementing the 'Your Future, Your Super' measures. The focus of this paper is on APRA’s approach to administering the performance test, where APRA has flexibility in administering the performance test, and APRA’s approach to providing investment performance data to the Australian Taxation Office for inclusion in the comparison...

A combination of greater levels of part-time work, employment in lower-paid industries, lower hourly rates of pay for women compared to men, and less time in the paid workforce during their working years results in pronounced gender pay, income and superannuation gaps. This paper looks at several options available to policy makers to help support...

This report shows the compelling body of evidence that it is in the best financial interests of all current and future workers in Australia, and the broader Australian economy, that the scheduled Superannuation Guarantee increases to 12 per cent, as planned.

The recent Retirement Income Review (RIR) implies policies that would reduce after-tax returns to super saving, encourage faster spending of life savings and of equity in the family home, and minimise bequests. This paper argues that the RIR relies on contested Treasury ‘tax expenditure’ estimates that use a hypothetical benchmark that is biased against all...