Superannuation



Large projected fiscal burdens due to rapid population ageing are driving governments around the world to evaluate their existing economic policies. A key reform area… Read More ›

Homeownership and Wealth: The Role of Tax and Pension Policies

The analysis of wealth distributions has gained more and more attention around the world over the last decade. A high concentration of wealth can negatively… Read More ›

Fair Crack of the Whip? The Distribution of Augmented Wealth in Australia From 2002 to 2018

The gender superannuation (or ‘super’) gap is a persistent problem that often receives less attention than the gender wage gap. The scale of this issue… Read More ›

Decomposing Australia’s Gender Superannuation Gap

‘The Australian retirement income system is effective, sound and its costs are broadly sustainable’ according to the Retirement Income Review chaired by Mike Callaghan. While… Read More ›

Is Australia’s Retirement Income System Delivering on Its Potential?

The government’s much-anticipated Retirement Incomes Review has found that increases in employer’s compulsory superannuation contributions are financed by reductions in workers’ wage growth. This isn’t… Read More ›

Workers Bear 71% to 100% of the Cost of Increases in Compulsory Super

In retirement many women find themselves financially dependent on their partner. The interaction between an unequal distribution of paid and unpaid work within many households… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Economic Security for Older Partnered Women and Widows: Fixing Gaps in Australia’s Superannuation System

Many economists think that earnings in super funds should be taxed at a relatively low rate, compared to labour earnings and other types of earnings… Read More ›

We Need Super, but We’re Taxing It the Wrong Way Round

Tax-driven off-market buybacks were first used in 1997 by the Commonwealth Bank. Since then, TOMBs (as we call them) have been used nearly 60 times,… Read More ›

Time to Kill Off Tax-Driven Off-Market Buybacks

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