Superannuation & retirement

Our insights are designed to help you manage regulatory change, navigate complex investment strategies, plan for disruptive technologies and evolve with changing members’ expectations. We’re here to help you create brighter futures for your members.

Latest Superannuation and Retirement insights

  • Superannuation insights ​

    Our superannuation insights are designed to help you manage regulatory change, navigate complex investment strategies, plan for disruptive technologies and evolve with changing members’ expectations. We’re here to help you create brighter futures for your members.
  • Retirement insights

    As Australia’s retirement sector continues to grow and mature, Mercer remains committed in helping our clients secure better retirement outcomes for members. Learn more about our solutions below and how we're helping members thrive in retirement.
  • Measuring Retirement Strategy Outcomes

    As super fund trustees progress the development and delivery of their retirement income strategies, they must also measure the effectiveness of their retirement strategy in improving members’ outcomes.
  • Retirement Income Strategies – one year on

    Hear from Mercer’s super and retirement consultants as they unpack the thematic Review from APRA and ASIC on how superannuation fund trustees (RSE licensees) have implemented the requirements of the Retirement Income Covenant one year on. Find out why there has been a lack of progress and what action is required to improve the retirement outcomes of members.
  • Saving the whales and serving the members

    Across the superannuation system, the notion that “bigger is invariably better”. In this paper we explore an alternative view that emphasizes that smaller funds, when managed effectively, can potentially deliver outcomes for their members that are equal to, or better than, their larger counterparts.
  • Making retirement better for Australians

    By: Dr David Knox BA PhD FIAA, Senior Actuarial Consultant
    Superannuation is compulsory in Australia. But is this enough to ensure all Australians can enjoy a dignified retirement through a good retirement system? How can we make our super system among the world’s best?
  • Recalculating Australia's ageing population

    We need to stop categorising age into over 65 and under 65 (the old-age dependency ration) which is overstating Australia’s ‘ageing population crisis’. Old age should no longer be defined as 65.
  • Rethinking superannuation tax concessions

    By: Dr David Knox BA PhD FIAA, Senior Actuarial Consultant
    Mercer’s latest paper explains that for median and average income earners, the cost of the super tax concessions is less than the future saving in Age Pension costs arising from superannuation.
  • Super tax reform leading to fairer outcomes

    By: Dr David Knox BA PhD FIAA, Senior Actuarial Consultant
    The taxation of superannuation in Australia is complex, inequitable and subject to regular changes. These features reduce the long-term confidence of Australians in their superannuation system. Learn more about how we can and should do better.
  • Retirement Income Covenant

    The proposed Retirement Income Covenant will require all super funds to have a documented strategy to identify the retirement income needs of fund members.

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