In this research paper, ASFA recommends that the Australian government commission a comprehensive, independent review of housing affordability, similar in nature to the Retirement Income Review, to establish a fact base and assess all relevant policy options.

In this paper, the authors investigate the impact on retirement balances and retirement adequacy from various policy changes, such as the effects of changes to the Superannuation Guarantee and superannuation taxation policies.

This report examines the role of superannuation trustees, financial advisers and Australian financial services licensees in influencing the investment options that make up member superannuation portfolios, and reveals an often insufficient focus on performance as a measure of persistently underperforming investment options.

This paper is a further developed version of the author’s submission to the Treasury consultation on the federal government’s Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions proposal, lodged in April 2023. The proposal is to add to the existing superannuation tax system a total balance threshold of $3 million, beyond which individuals would be subject to an additional...

This report examines how extending the Superannuation Guarantee to all ordinary time earnings by workers under 18 years of age, not just for those who meet the 30 hour per week threshold, would improve members’ retirement outcomes and deliver broader social and economic benefits.