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Retirement Commissioner Welcomes Commitment To Complete The Retirement Villages Act Review
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 4:50 pm | Retirement Commission
Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson says the three areas of focus align to the issues that she’s seen regularly raised over the years and part of what she’s been advocating to see updated in the legislation. More >>
New Research Shows More People Planning For Their Retirement Despite Cost-Of-Living Woes
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 1:42 pm | Retirement Commission
Latest insights on how New Zealanders are feeling financially has revealed that despite more than half describing their position as uncomfortable, they are still actively saving for retirement. More >>
Retirement Commissioner Calls For Changes To KiwiSaver
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 6:57 pm | Retirement Commission
Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission has today released a comprehensive analysis on how the current settings for joining, contributing, and withdrawing from KiwiSaver are working. KiwiSaver is a crucial component of the retirement income system. More >>
Sorted Teams Up With New Zealand’s #1 Podcast, The Morning Shift, To Help Shift The Conversation Around Money
Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 10:36 am | Retirement Commission
Sorted and New Zealand’s biggest podcast, The Morning Shift, are joining forces to redefine how New Zealanders talk about money. The Morning Shift is the brainchild of three Kiwi dads Jordan River and Brook Ruscoe, former breakfast radio hosts, and ... More >>
NZ Super Is A Taonga, Not A Burden: Retirement Commissioner Seeks Political Accord
Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 9:13 am | Retirement Commission
The Retirement Commissioner has (today) released a paper outlining various policy options and considerations for NZ Super – but maintains keeping the age of eligibility at 65 is the best one for now. The simplicity of NZ Super’s design is internationally ... More >>
New Research Reveals The Added Cost Of Growing Older
Friday, 15 December 2023, 10:08 am | Retirement Commission
Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission has released a new study looking at the often-unforeseen financial impacts of health conditions as people age. In-depth interviews were conducted with older people grappling with disabilities or experiencing difficulties ... More >>
Month-long Campaign Kicks Off Encouraging Kiwis To Take A Moment To Get Their Money Sorted
Monday, 31 July 2023, 2:21 pm | Retirement Commission
Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission’s Sorted Money Month kicks off today (1 August), putting the spotlight on improving our financial lives for the next four weeks. Money Month is an annual campaign run alongside organisations from across ... More >>
Commissioner Calls For More Flexibility After Study Highlights Failings In Experiences During Border Closures
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 9:05 am | Retirement Commission
New research has revealed the emotional strain of pensioners caught offshore due to COVID-19 border closures and the impact of having their NZ Super payments stopped, repayment demands issued, and the difficulties navigating government bureaucracy ... More >>
Financial Sector Urged To Drop Jargon, Make Money More Understandable
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 11:24 am | Retirement Commission
A new glossary has been launched aiming to strip away the overly complex language used in financial services to make money terms more accessible to New Zealanders. Over the past 18 months, Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission has worked with ... More >>
New Research Reveals Prevalence Of Employers Not Paying Kiwisaver On Top Of Earnings
Friday, 21 April 2023, 8:34 am | Retirement Commission
New research has revealed the prevalence of employers including KiwiSaver contributions as part of employees’ total remuneration rather than on top of their earnings. Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission surveyed more than 300 small, medium, and ... More >>
Research Reveals New Zealanders Are Willing To Make Trade-offs To Keep The Pension Age At 65
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 8:06 am | Retirement Commission
A University of Otago study commissioned by Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission has shown widespread opposition to means-testing superannuation and raising the age of eligibility but a willingness to increase taxes now rather than burden future ... More >>
Retirement Commission Joins Forces With Financial Sector To Get New Zealanders Saving
Thursday, 1 December 2022, 11:30 am | Retirement Commission
The financial services industry has come up with a set of recommendations to work together on to encourage more New Zealanders to save as part of the 2022 Review of Retirement Income Policies. This was the first time the Government has included a ... More >>
Research Highlights Widespread Disaparities In The Experiences Maori Have In Retirement
Friday, 21 October 2022, 10:01 am | Retirement Commission
Findings from the largest collation of research and analysis on what retirement looks like for Māori has highlighted the difficult situation many are facing now and into the future. Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission has released four papers ... More >>
Cracking Open The Nest Egg How To Spend Your Savings In Retirement
Monday, 3 October 2022, 3:04 pm | Retirement Commission
Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission has released a comprehensive report that considers how people draw down on the savings they have accumulated to support their retirement and has suggested a series of recommendations to better support the process. ... More >>
Will NZ Super Be Enough To Support A Nation Of People Paying Off Mortgages And Rent?
Tuesday, 30 August 2022, 9:12 am | Retirement Commission
A large-scale analysis of New Zealand’s Household Economic Survey (HES) has highlighted how the amount being spent on housing costs represents large proportions of people’s New Zealand Superannuation. Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission recently commissioned ... More >>
Get Answers With Sorted Money Week
Friday, 5 August 2022, 11:11 am | Retirement Commission
Struggling with money? Get answers with Sorted Money Week Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission’s Sorted Money Week is back for another year – kicking off Monday 8 August until Sunday 14 August. Sorted Money Week is an annual awareness campaign ... More >>
International Women’s Day: Mind The Gender Financial Capability Gap
Monday, 7 March 2022, 9:14 am | Retirement Commission
A deep dive into research on women’s financial capability has highlighted how gender gaps across the personal finance spectrum impact overall financial wellbeing. More than 1500 responses from women who participated in Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement ... More >>
20 Years Of Helping Kiwis Get Their Money Sorted
Thursday, 30 September 2021, 9:59 am | Retirement Commission
Latest consumer insights reveal that two decades on Sorted holds strong as a trusted and independent source for Kiwis to turn to for their personal money matters. Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission surveyed 3000 people from throughout New Zealand ... More >>
Something will have to change to keep NZ Super
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 4:54 pm | Retirement Commission
The Retirement Commissioner has recommended changes to New Zealand Superannuation to keep it affordable over the long term and to strengthen the principle of universal individual entitlement. More >>
Time for Kiwis to start talking about money
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 12:54 pm | Retirement Commission
Retirement Commissioner Diana Crossan says just as local and national authorities are making plans to cope with the needs of an ageing population, families need to make plans too. More >>
