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Financial literacy and retirement planning in Australia

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.

Overall we find aggregate levels of financial literacy similar to comparable countries with the young, least educated, unemployed and those not in the labor force most at risk. However, unlike the international norm, we find that financial skills increase with age.

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