question of long term retirement planning. In many cases this has included emphasising the need for individuals to take more … responsibility for their own retirement planning through tax incentives, compulsion and changes to the age at which state retirement … benefits become available. In the case of Australia, as is considered here, long term retirement planning has been focused …

approaching their retirement, the average person approaching retirement age is not likely to suffer a life changing financial loss … been greatly exaggerated. If there is any postponement of retirement due to stock market losses, on average it will be a … background information that corrects misperceptions about pension holdings of the retirement age population. Pension coverage is …

This article focuses on employment-based retirement plan participation for full-time, full-year wage and salary workers … and by employers and unions. The retirement plan total participation rates of these workers are investigated across … various worker demographic and employer characteristics. The article provides the latest retirement plan participation numbers …