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2012Dec
Elderly couple researching pension options

Hazel Bateman, Andy Lai, and Ralph Stevens

We assessed alternative presentations of investment risk using a discrete choice experiment which asked subjects to rank three investment portfolios for retirement savings across nine risk presentation formats and four underlying risk levels.

2012Dec
Financial prosperity

Julie R. Agnew, Hazel Bateman, and Susan Thorp

We implement a customised survey to a representative sample of 1,024 Australians to examine the relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning.

2012Nov
Elderly friends enjoying life

Julie R. Agnew, Hazel Bateman, and Susan Thorp

This study presents new insights into the retirement preparedness of Australians at the later stages of working life.

2012Nov
Young family at home

Julie R. Agnew, Hazel Bateman, and Susan Thorp

This paper presents new evidence from a national survey of non-retired individuals with superannuation accounts between the ages of 25 and 65.

2012Sep
Aged care

Joelle H. Fong, Benedict SK. Koh, and Olivia S. Mitchell

This paper examines how inability to perform activities of daily living relates to the risk of nursing home admission over older adults' life courses

2012Aug
Happy elderly couple

Bei Lu and John Piggott

This paper proposes a Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) mechanism to ensure pension mobility for migrating workers, in both the accumulation and drawdown phases.

2012Jul
Male researcher on his laptop

Ermanno Pitacco

Many modern insurance products are designed as packages, whose items may be either included or not in the product actually purchased by the client.

2012Jun
Constellations

Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott and Ola Vestad

The relationship between retirement and mortality is studied with a unique administrative data set covering the full population of Norway

2012May
Aged care support

Joelle H. Fong, John Piggott, and Michael Sherris

This paper assesses the cost and risk faced by public sector, defined benefit plan providers arising from uncertain mortality, including longevity selection, mortality improvements, and unexpected systematic shocks.