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Key Retirement Income Seminar coming up, April 17, 2014 RPRC Forum 17 April Retirement Incomes Policy The Future Is Now … More Retirement Income forum April 17 Thursday →

The February 2014 Consumer magazine provides a very useful guide for comparing Kiwi Saver funds. This magazine is subscription based, … More Kiwi Saver 2014 Updates →

This article on Save as you go, or Pay as you go, has possible application for long term NZ Superannuation. … More Treasury working paper Superannuation funding by Andrew Coleman →

Martin Hawes provides his succinct thoughts . When a child is born – 16 February 2014 Posted on February 22, … More Kiwi Savers losing out in Kiwi Saver default funds →

Important dates for 2014. RPRC Update Vol 6 Issue 4 FINAL.PDF

This United Kingdom research paper adopts the view that population aging tend to exaggerate the trend’s scale, speed, and impact, … More Population aging is often exaggerated →

As some of you may know I have been pre-occupied for the last two months with an illness which turns … More Kaspanz Website reinvigoration →

Focusing on the future. Report to Government now available Read Report Here

A TRIBUTE TO A NEW ZEALAND TREASURE: NEW ZEALAND SUPERANNUATION

Two of New Zealand’s eminent commentators Martin Hawes and Michael Littlewood have recently strongly supported the New Zealand Superannuation Model. Littlewood in a 2013 paper said “New Zealand Superannuation (NZS) is one of the simplest, most effective, and most cost effective Tier 1 schemes in the developed world. We mess with it at our peril” and Hawes said “NZ Super is a system so simple and cheap that we need to give people certainty and stop playing football with it”

The cost of NZ universal public pension is currently 4% GDP, and over the next 20 years will gradually increase to about 5.5%. Not only is this very affordable, but projections out to 2060 or longer are not helpful due to the many variables involved, and what any historian knows, the poor outcomes of such assumptions. Two rules of forecasting. Rule 1. For each forecast, there is an equal and opposite forecast. Rule 2. Both of them are probably wrong. Continue reading A TRIBUTE TO A NEW ZEALAND TREASURE: NEW ZEALAND SUPERANNUATION →

WHAT HAS KASPANZ LEARNT SINCE LAUNCH DATE February 2013 1. New Zealand’s population is ageing and longevity is a huge … More WHAT HAS KASPANZ LEARNT SINCE LAUNCH DATE February 2013 →