Current seminars and events

6 March 2012  3.30pm- 5pm

Funding issues for social insurance have become a key concern in debates over pre-funding, and the roles of the Accident Compensation Corporation, the NZ Superannuation Fund, and the Earthquake Commission.  >>

9 February 2012  3pm- 4pm

One impact of the Global Financial Crisis has been the collapse of several financial products and services providers. This has resulted in many thousands of people in Australia and NZ losing their life savings, house ownership and financial security.  >>

8 December 2011  4.30pm- 6pm

A panel of speakers analyse the merits of promises about KiwiSaver in the 2011 election campaign and other related issues.  >>

26 August 2011  9:00 am- 5:00 pm

An ACC Forum will be held Friday 26 August 2011, co-hosted by The University of Auckland’s Retirement Policy and Research Centre and the ACC Group, the ACC Futures Coalition, and AUT’s Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research.  >>

27 May 2011  2pm- 5pm

The financial crisis has pushed all government budgets further into deficit. More recently, governments in New Zealand and Australia have faced new fiscal challenges arising out of natural disasters. The result is weakening budget positions.  >>

20 May 2011  7.15am- 8.45am

Join us for breakfast and an analysis of how the 2011 Budget affects children and young people.  >>

19 April 2011  7.15am- 8.45am

Professor Natalie Jackson will discuss New Zealand's complacency around longevity and structural ageing.  >>

3 November 2010  7:15 am- 8:45 am

Whether or not New Zealanders are saving "enough" is unresolved, yet there are calls for KiwiSaver to be made compulsory. Has KiwiSaver been a success? Is it well designed? What are the costs and benefits?  >>

10 September 2010  8:30 am- 5:15 pm

The aim of this Welfare Forum is to move beyond the narrow terms of reference of the Welfare Working Group, and make recommendations that recognise the current economic climate, and foreground the needs of children.  >>

25 August 2010  1:00 pm- 5:30 pm

With help from the HRC, the RPRC produced three Working Papers (WPs) documenting the historical and current legislative and policy framework surrounding entitlement to New Zealand Superannuation for immigrants and emigrants.  >>

13 April 2010  7:15 am- 8:45 am

Bernard Hickey has raised questions recently on, among other issues, the Tax Working Group’s exercise, and whether raising GST is justifiable.  >>

9 November 2009  7:15 am- 8:45 am

Over recent years we have had an intense debate on the issues of household saving and retirement. Yet it has proved very difficult to get a clear view of what households are actually doing.  >>

16 July 2009 - 16 June 2009  8:45 am- 5:30 pm

In the 1990s, the OECD described New Zealand as having the least distorting tax system in the OECD. Would it do that today?  >>

28 April 2009  7:15 am- 8:45 am

Professor Tim Hazledine’s guiding principle as an economist is that sustainability in the fullest sense is basically all that matters for economic policy.  >>

24 February 2009  7:15 am- 8:45 am

2008 will be seen in the future as “one of those years”. About $55 trillion (half their pre-crash value) was wiped off the value of world share markets.  >>

2 December 2008  7:15 am- 8:30 am

Retirement savers around the world are required to make more and more complex decisions over their lifecycle.  >>

16 April 2008  8:45 am- 5:30 pm

This symposium looks at both the last 20 years and the coming 20 years of New Zealand’s retirement income policies.  >>

13 December 2007  9:00 am- 4:30 pm

In 1974 New Zealand adopted the most revolutionary and innovative system for accident compensation in the Western world, known by the acronym ACC.  >>

3 February 2006  7:30 am- 8:45 am

This Breakfast Seminar will be held In association with ASFONZ, Women in Super, and the University of Auckland’s Public Policy Group.  >>

24 June 2005  3:00 pm- 4:30 pm

The proportion of people over 65 in Japan was 17.4 % in 2000. This is the proportion in New Zealand in 2020 according to prediction by OECD.  >>