14 July 2020 17:35

Part one on October 16, Deconstructing retirement income, featured Peter Chun, Aware Super (previously First State Super), David Carruthers, Frontier Advisors and Deborah Ralston, Monash University. The session was chaired by Jeremy Cooper from Challenger.

This session addressed:

· The role of superannuation;
· Defining retirement adequacy;
· Outcomes from the Retirement Income Review;
· Structural deficiencies with Account Based Pensions, and;
· What this means for trustees

Questions and answers

View questions and answers from the panel here

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Aleks Vickovich

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