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Theme: New Developments in Pensions and Retirement
2-3 December 2019
Colombo Theatres, UNSW Sydney
The 27th Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research, co-hosted by CEPAR and the School of Risk & Actuarial Studies in the UNSW Business School, is a unique annual event, bringing together academe, government and industry to discuss the latest research on pensions, superannuation and retirement.
The theme for 2019 is ‘New Developments in Pensions and Retirement’.
Academic Committee:
Professor Hazel Bateman, CEPAR Deputy Director, UNSW Sydney
David Bell, CEPAR, UNSW Sydney
Inka Eberhardt, CEPAR Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
Scientia Professor John Piggott, CEPAR Director, UNSW Sydney
Direct event or media enquiries to: Silke Weiss
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PROGRAM: MONDAY, 2 DECEMBER |
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8:30 – 8:50 |
Arrival and Registration
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8:50 – 9:00 |
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS John Piggott, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney |
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9:00 – 10:30 |
SESSION 1: PLENARY Chair: John Piggott (CEPAR, UNSW Sydney) |
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Australia's Ageing Population - Understanding the Fiscal Impacts over the Next Decade |
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Impact of Defaults in Retirement Saving Plans: Public Employee Plans |
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Individualization and De-risking |
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10:30 –11:00 |
Morning Tea
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11:00 – 13:00 |
SESSION 2
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Session 2A Retirement Income Products Chair: Héloïse Labit Hardy (CEPAR, UNSW)
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Session 2B Retirement Income Adequacy Chair: George Kudrna (CEPAR, UNSW) |
Session 2C Investments I Chair: Akshay Shanker (UNSW, CEPAR) |
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What Features of a Retirement Income Product do Seniors Value?: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment |
Treasury’s Model of Australian Retirement Incomes and Assets (MARIA)
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Utility Functions and Design of Retirement Option Menus
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An Experimental Study of the Demand for Hybrid Longevity and Health Insurance Products
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Australian Retirement Income Adequacy – A Distributional Approach to Lifecycle Impacts of the Superannuation Guarantee |
How Sub-Optimal are Age-Based Life-Cycle Investment Products?
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Model Risk for Pricing Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits
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The Impact of Financial Literacy on the Consumption and Investment Decisions of Older New Zealanders |
Lifecycle Design – To and Through Retirement
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A Structured Investigation of Retirement Income Products |
Why do Low Superannuation Balances Persist? |
Growth / Defensive Asset Categorisation in Superannuation |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00 – 15:30 |
SESSION 3: PLENARY Chair: Katja Hanewald (UNSW, CEPAR) |
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Health-linked Life Annuities: Combining Protection and Retirement Income |
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Program Substitution – Old Age Pension or Disability Benefit |
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Housing in Retirement: The Emerging Challenge to Retirement Incomes Policy |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Afternoon Tea
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16:00 – 18:00 |
SESSION 4
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Session 4A Drawdown Strategies & Behaviour Chair: Inka Eberhardt (CEPAR, UNSW) |
Session 4B Retirement Systems Chair: Mengyi Xu (CEPAR, UNSW) |
Session 4C Investments II Chair: David Bell (UNSW) |
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Latent Behavioural Groups in Phased Withdrawal Retirement Income Products |
Intergenerational Impacts: The Sustainability of New Zealand Superannuation |
Fund Manager Risk and Return Projections: Are they Realistic? |
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Behavioural Responses to High-Low, Low-High and Flat-Rate Annuities after Retirement: A Stated Preference Analysis |
Exploring Merged Means Test Options
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The Utility of Reserving in Retirement Investing
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Spend your Decennial Age: A Rule of Thumb for Retirement
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Automatic Enrolment in an European Perspective
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The Exercise of Investment Power by Superannuation Fund Trustees
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Drawing Down or Draining the Well: What is an Optimal Strategy for Consumers
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Why is Inequality Higher Among the Old? Evidence from China
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Financial Engineering: A New Longevity Bond to Manage Individual Longevity Risk
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18:30 – 21:30 |
CONFERENCE DINNER The Lounge (Level 11, UNSW Library Building, Library walk) |
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PROGRAM: TUESDAY, 3 DECEMBER |
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9:00 – 10:30 |
SESSION 5: PANEL– Retirement Income Review Chair: Marc de Cure, Advisory Board Chair, CEPAR; Adjunct Professor and Advisory Board member, UNSW Business School; Independent Non-Executive Director, Zurich Financial Services Australia
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10:30 –11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 – 13:00 |
SESSION 6 |
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Session 6A Retirement Incomes Chair: Andrés Villegas (CEPAR, UNSW) |
Session 6B Health and Aged Care Chair: Bei Lu (CEPAR, UNSW) |
Session 6C Behaviour and Engagement Chair: Sophie Yan (CEPAR, UNSW) |
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Public Annuities: Buyers’ Behaviour and Policy Design
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Ageing and Caring – The Socioeconomic Contributions and Implications of Caring when Aged 65 Years or Older
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A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives Improve Retirement Information Search |
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Longevity Risk: Retirement Product Innovation and Risk Management Strategies |
Retirement Planning with Systematic Disability and Mortality Risk |
Life Insurance: Decision States, Financial Literacy and the Role of Personal Values |
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Tax Progressivity in Australia: A Dynamic General
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Friends, Family and Framing: A Cross-country Study of Subjective Survival Expectations |
Pensions and Participation: Evidence from WWII Veterans in Australia
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UBER Retirement
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Long-term Care Insurance Financing using Home Equity Release: Evidence from an Experimental Study
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Can a Non-Linear Taper Rate on the Age Pension be Welfare Improving?
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00 – 15:30 |
SESSION 7: PLENARY Chair: Hazel Bateman, CEPAR, UNSW Sydney |
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High-Performance DC Pension Plans: Design, Technology and the Role of Public Policy |
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Defaults, Disclosures, Advice and Calculators: One size does not fit all |
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Longevity Products in Australia |
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15:30 – 15:40 |
CLOSING REMARKS |
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Registration has now closed.