Great expectations: Retirement realities for older New Zealanders

This is the second of three 2017 commissioned pieces of research seeking to understand Kiwis’
attitudes to retirement savings.

The first report focussed on consumer attitudes to government po licy in relation to KiwiSaver and was designed to inform officials in the run-up to the 2017 election.

The next, and final, report will focus on the attitudes of younger New Zealanders to wealth and their financial future.

This report delves into the attitudes and expectations of older New Zealanders and sets out the results of research carried out in June 2017. Our aim is to help grow the wealth of New Zealanders by understanding what wealth
those aged 65 have accumulated, and how they intend to spend it. Given the increasing ages to which New Zealanders are living and that our population is ageing overall, this is an important and timely topic.

To achieve our aim, we commissioned Horizon Research to interview 2,199 adults, a representative sample of the national 18+ population and gathered more than 3900 comments from those interviewed.

Read the research report.

For all media enquiries, please contact:

Richard Klipin
Chief Executive Officer
Financial Services Council of New Zealand 021 0233 5414 or richard.klipin@fsc.org.nz