With population aging on the rise, important challenges must be addressed to help people avoid outliving their savings and other assets in retirement, according to one of the world’s foremost pension economists.
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Next month CEPAR will host the 6th in its series of Policy Dialogues, jointly with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

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CEPAR Researcher Dr Tom Wilson suggests an alternative way of communicating population forecast uncertainty.

Fundamental to good policy analysis is good data. While national survey data take this requirement some distance, older cohorts in Australia do not enjoy the same survey attention as their younger counterparts, nor are older cohorts in Australia surveyed as comprehensively as in most other countries.
