Subject: RPRC Forum 23 September: Does the UK’s reform of pensions have lessons for New Zealand?

The Retirement Policy and Research Centre is hosting the forum:

Does the UK’s reform of pensions have lessons for New Zealand?

When: 3pm to 5.30pm, 23 September 2013
Where: Decima Glenn, level 3 of the University of Auckland Business School
Who: Keynote speakers:Dr Alison O’Connell, Consultant and policy adviser, and Ms Diane Maxwell, Retirement Commissioner.

Abstract: The UK’s pension system, once the most complicated in the world, is about to become surprisingly like New Zealand’s single tier of public age pension and auto-enrolment into private pensions. The UK reforms include increases to the qualifying age for the age pension and major efforts to raise the quality of workplace pensions.

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