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Pensions: The need for present action to prevent future problems

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Pensions: The need for present action to prevent future problems

Global pension plans collectively are estimated to sustain a multi-trillion dollar shortfall. Demographic changes, years of political standstill and the great recession have led to pension obligations being underfunded worldwide. If this retirement income crisis is not addressed adequately it will not only have serious economic consequences, but will lead

Editors' Picks - April 13 2014

Editors' Picks - April 13 2014

This week in Editors’ Picks, we take a look at the landmark Australia-Japan trade agreement, how smartphones are actually adding $33 billion to our GDP, raising the pension eligibility age as a fiscal policy option, the trajectory of the financial contract and the revolutionary work of Thomas Piketty. Trade deal

Are your parents about to rip you off?

Today I want to talk about superannuation. No! No! Don’t stop reading. Seriously, this is important. Yes, I know that many readers of this site are below thirty, so that an article on superannuation has about as much appeal as a discussing aged accommodation and colonoscopies. But it is