Retirement Survey

Retirement Survey

What is your age?

  18 - 25
  26 - 50
  51 - 80
  81 - 100

What is your gender?

Male
Female

What best describes your current employment status:

  Full-time employment
  Part-time employment
  Unemployed (including voluntarily, e.g. stay-at-home mothers)
  Retired

What percentage of your potential working life (after 18 years old) have you worked?

  0% - 30%
  31% - 60%
  61% - 100%

If you haven't already, at what age do you plan to retire?

  30 - 50
  51 - 60
  61 - 70
  71 - 80
  81+

In today's dollars, how much income per annum would you like to retire on?

What would you like to spend your retirement funds on when you retire?

How would you prefer to access your retirement funds?

Access your entire fund whenever you please (with the risk of it running out before you die)
Be paid a regular income which is guaranteed to last your lifetime (cannot access entire fund)

Rate your knowledge of the available options for financial provision in retirement.

  None
  Some
  Average
  Better than average
  Very high

What is the primary source of your knowledge about the process of retirement?

In your own words, describe what a "lifetime annuity" is.

In your own words, describe what an "allocated pension" is.

List any other retirement options that you are aware of.

Are you aware the the Australian government is discussing the possibility of making it compulsory to purchase an annuity with some of your retirement funds (as is the case in the UK)?

Yes
No

Would you prefer to

Invest during retirement (with risk of either gaining or losing large amounts of money)
Not invest during retirement (money is secure, content with your funds)

Are you concerned that you will have insufficient funds in retirement?

Yes
No

Do you believe we should be putting more into our superannuation funds (whether voluntarily or by force)?

Yes
No

Do you think Australians need to start thinking about and/or saving for retirement earlier than they currently do?

Yes
No

At what age do you think it is appropriate to start thinking about your retirement funds?

  18-30
  31-40
  41-50
  51-60
  61+

Any other comments?