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A Roadmap To A Better Retirement: Review Calls For Cross-Party Action
Friday, 14 November 2025, 9:05 am | Retirement Commission
Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission's 2025 Review of Retirement Income Policies has been launched, reflecting the voices of older New Zealanders, the insights of experts and the values that underpin the retirement income system. More >>
New Report Reveals Why Women Retire With Less – And How To Fix It
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 7:35 am | Retirement Commission
Suggestions include extending the Government’s KiwiSaver contributions for parental leave, including for those not contributing, and automating entitlement to a spouse’s KiwiSaver when a couple separate. More >>
New Sorted Retirement Navigator A One-Of-A-Kind Tool For Spending In Golden Years
Monday, 16 June 2025, 7:58 am | Retirement Commission
Based on extensive modelling and drawdown ‘rules of thumb’ created by the RIIG, the retirement navigator addresses a common dilemma – how not to spend too much and run out of money or spend too little and unnecessarily compromise quality of ... More >>
New Analysis Reveals New Zealanders’ KiwiSaver Funds Could Last 30% Longer Than Under Pre-Budget 2025 Settings
Friday, 23 May 2025, 10:36 am | Retirement Commission
For members currently earning less than $30,000 the government contribution is currently expected to accumulate, over a 40-year time-period, to 15-20% of total KiwiSaver balances at age 65. After the Budget 2024 changes, this reduces to 6-11%. More >>
Unifying The Financial Services Sector Through A New National Strategy For Financial Capability
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 8:47 am | Retirement Commission
Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson says there’s no other such mechanism which brings together such a breadth of organisations. More >>
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 >>
