Australia - Pension System Overview

 

• IOPS Country Profile: Australia 2024 (pdf)

• Australia: Pension system in 2018 and Country specific findings (Pensions at a Glance 2019. OECD and G20 indicators)
  
  
• Australia Mandatory funded pension profile, 2017 (ISSA/OECD/IOPS complementary and private pensions database)

Other resources

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA):

• Superannuation heatmaps - APRA
• The Annual Superannuation Performance Test 2024 - APRA
• Superannuation product performance - APRA
• APRA Prudential Handbook
• Letters, Notes and Advice - APRA
• APRA's Supervision Philosophy - 2020
  
• APRA's Supervision Risk and Intensity (SRI) Model Guide - 2020
  
• APRA's MySuper Product Heatmap Information Paper - 2019
  
• Access the most recent Heatmap publications: APRA's MySuper Product Heatmap - 2020

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC):

• Disclosure: Why it shouldn't be the default - 2019 - A joint publication by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM).
• Review of ASIC Regulatory Guide 97: Disclosing fees and costs in PDSs and periodic statements - 2018
• Consumer testing of the fees and costs tools for superannuation and managed investment schemes - 2019
• Advice in Superannuation - 2020

 

Key regulatory and Supervisory Authorities

• Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA): www.apra.gov.au

• Australian Taxation Office: www.ato.gov.au

• Australian Securities and Investment Commission: www.asic.gov.au

 

Key official statistical reference and sources on private pensions

• OECD, Global Pension Statistics project: www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/globalpensionstatistics.htm