Breakfast series
2nd December 2008
"Behavioural Finance: choice overload in retirement savings - the paradox of plenty."
Hazel Bateman, Associate Professor of Economics, Director, Centre for Pensions and Superannuation. The University of New South Wales
Venue: The University of Auckland Business School, Decima Glenn Room, Level 3, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland
Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC) breakfast briefing
Presenter: Hazel Bateman
Cost: $35 per person, please use the form below.
Bateman Breakfast Invitation (108kB)
Abstract:
Retirement savers around the world are required to make more and more complex decisions over their lifecycle. Whether to participate? How much to contribute? Which superannuation (pension) fund? Which investment option? When to retire? Which type of retirement benefit? Whether and how to seek financial advice?
How well individuals make these choices affects their welfare before and after retirement and also determines the extent to which they depend on public income support after retirement. For industry, decisions made by retirement savers will affect market share, economies of scale and brand status.
This discussion will focus on how behavioural finance assists us better understand how these important retirement and financial planning decisions are made, how people use the information presented to them, and how decisions could be modified by changing the format or emphasis of the background information and choice menus.
For more information please contact:
Tressy Menezes
Postgraduate and Research Office
Tel: 923 2628
14th October 2008
The Top 100: "Digging into the numbers" Michael Littlewood discusses the results and implications of the RPRC top 100 company survey conducted earlier this year
16th April 2008 Superannuation Policy Symposium
Retirement income policies in New Zealand: looking back and looking forward
Hosted by the Retirement Policy and Research Centre Sponsored by the Business School and the Retirement Commission. All papers and background material at
http://www.symposium.ac.nz/
To support the work of the Retirement Policy and Research Centre and the April 2008 Symposium Retirement Income Policy in New Zealand: Looking back and looking forward the University of Auckland Library is pleased to make available digital copies (Pdf) of:
1. New Zealand. Government economic statement, 17 December 1987. Wellington, N.Z. : Government Printer, 1987
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/data/govt%20econ%20statement/
2. Consultative document on superannuation and life insurance. Volume 1. Wellington, N.Z. : Govt. Printer, [1988]
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/data/consult%20doc/
3.New Zealand. Consultative Committee on Superannuation, Life Insurance and Related Areas. Tax treatment of superannuation : report of the Consultative Committee. [Wellington, N.Z.] : Treasury, [1988].
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/data/tax%20treatment/
3rd February 2006 RPRC breakfast
In association with ASFONZ, Women in Super, and the University of Auckland’s Public Policy Group a Breakfast was hosted at Old Government House University of Auckland "The influence of the New Zealand model on the UK Pension Commission’s report of November 2005" A presentation by:
Alison O’Connell Director Pensions Policy Institute, London.
PPI Auckland Feb06 (155kB)
