Grattan: Don’t lift compulsory super rate
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The Grattan Institute has released a new report, entitled Money in retirement: more than enough, which challenges the conventional view that Australians don’t save enough for retirement, and explicitly recommends against lifting the compulsory superannuation guarantee from its current level of 9.5% to 12%:
The vast majority of retirees today and in future are likely to be financially comfortable.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.