April 2024
11Apr

Singapore. Redefining Retirement: Why it’s Time To Broaden Our Understanding Of What It Means To Retire

When someone says the word ‘retiree’, the image that comes to mind is a person with greying hair, perhaps wrinkling skin, and is ready to spend the rest of their days lounging at the kopitiam in the middle of the day with a newspaper and a hot cup of kopi. One would reasonably expect such a person to be in their sixties, well past the definition of a young person. But in the past two weeks, not one but two young men, clearly...

April 11, 2024
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March 2024
01Mar

Singapore faces shrinking population as total fertility rate falls below 1% for first time

Singapore, facing a dwindling population and a manpower shortage, has seen its resident total fertility rate (TFR) drop to an estimated 0.97 per cent in 2023, the first time it has dropped below one per cent in the country’s history. The TFR, which refers to the average number of babies each woman would have during her reproductive years, fell from 1.04 in 2022 and 1.12 in 2021, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Indranee Rajah told Parliament on Wednesday. The...

March 1, 2024
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November 2023
17Nov

Societal aging and its impact on Singapore

By Cynthia Chen, Julian Lim, Abhijit Visaria & Angelique Chan  Societal aging is arguably one of our most critical demographic challenges (World Bank, 2016). Singapore is aging at a much faster rate compared to other countries. It will take only 27 years to transition from an 'aging society' in 1999 (7% of the population aged 65+) to a 'super-aged society' in 2026 (with 20% of its population aged 65+) (Tan Teck Boon, 2015). Japan, China, Germany, and the United States took, or will take,...

November 17, 2023
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October 2022
20Oct

Global pension systems, including Singapore’s CPF, face issue of getting platform workers on board

While Singapore’s Central Provident Fund (CPF) is among the top-ranked retirement income systems in the world, there is room to nudge the informal workforce, such as platform workers, into contributing more to the national savings scheme. This issue was raised by panellists during a webinar on Tuesday to discuss the findings of the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, which ranked the Republic ninth out of 44 retirement systems reviewed. Into its 14th year, the index placed Singapore’s retirement system as...

October 20, 2022
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July 2022
28Jul

Trust and Retirement Preparedness: Evidence from Singapore

By Benedict S. Koh, Olivia S. Mitchell & Joelle H. Fong Trust is an essential component of the financial system, and distrust can undermine saving and economic growth. Accordingly, prior research has shown that survey responses to a question about ‘trust in people’ are associated with household willingness to invest in the stock market. Nevertheless, little is known about how trust shapes economic behaviors predictive of retirement preparedness. Our study draws on the Singapore Life Panel (SLP®), a high-frequency internet...

July 28, 2022
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November 2021
05Nov

The Skill-Specific Automatability of Aging Workers and Retirement Decisions

By Zeewan Lee Much of the discourse on the impact of automation on labor supply tends to assess the labor force as a whole, thereby disregarding the marginal effect on aging workers. In lights of the growing technological changes, we assess the linkage between the automatability of workers and retirement timing. Based on the theoretical model of task-based technological changes and drawing data from the Health and Retirement Study and O*NET, we create an Automatability Index based on workers’ primary...

November 5, 2021
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September 2021
21Sep

Singapore- Ministry of Manpower Sets up Advisory Committee to Protect GIG Economy Workers

Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower announced the formation of the Advisory Committee on Platform Workers. The Committee aims to strengthen protections for self-employed persons who work for online platforms, specifically delivery persons, private-hire car drivers, and taxi drivers. Read also Uber to pay pensions to all its UK drivers, backdated to 2017 At its first meeting last week, the Advisory Committee noted the lack of basic job protections due to the nature of platform work, and decided on three priority areas to...

September 21, 2021
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August 2021
12Aug

45% of Singaporeans surveyed have not started planning for retirement

This was more apparent in the younger demographic (aged below 35), a survey has noted. Reasons include: 20% of plan to rely on their spouse or family members for it, and 61% are confident they will have sufficient funds for it. More details here. One in three Singaporeans (39%) are worried they will not have enough funds for retirement, yet not many are acting on it, a recent report by Endowus has found. In particular, this was seen more in respondents...

August 12, 2021
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05Aug

1 in 3 Singaporeans are worried about retirement inadequacy and 45% have yet to start planning: Endowus Singapore Retirement Report 2021

39% of Singaporeans are worried about retirement inadequacy, with women being at higher risk of retirement inadequacy than men 72% of Singaporeans desire higher returns for their investments, but despite that, only 25% are currently investing their CPF 31% of Singaporeans have indicated that they would like assistance in the form of tools to help them understand the impact of financial decisions around CPF SINGAPORE, Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Endowus Singapore Retirement Report reveals that retirement inadequacy...

August 5, 2021
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January 2021

25Jan

Singapore. SGX Accelerates Sustainability Drive With Launch Of ESG Derivatives

Suite of four new derivatives a key thrust of SGX FIRST initiative Launch further broadens multi-asset partnership with FTSE Russell Singapore Exchange (SGX) is accelerating its SGX FIRST sustainability agenda with the launch of its pioneering suite of ESG derivatives today. SGX developed the new contracts in partnership with FTSE Russell to offer investors more choice in promoting the integration of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) factors into institutional investment portfolios on an award-winning market infrastructure. The SGX FIRST...

January 25, 2021
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