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Renters Beware: how the pension and super could leave you behind

  • Written by Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW
Renters Beware: how the pension and super could leave you behindSuper and the pension treat most retirees well, but not renters.Shutterstock

How we fund retirement in an ageing century ought to worry all of us.

But one group of us should be much more worried than the rest.

In a new set of research briefs published by the Centre of Excellence of Population Ageing Research, we report that most people do well out...

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