Counting on your super to fund your retirement? Don't.

By Satyajit Das
Updated October 31 2017 - 9:43am, first published October 13 2017 - 9:43pm
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 07:  generic, retirement, seniors , pension, old age, superannuation, nest egg on January 7, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia.  (Photo by Glenn Hunt/Fairfax Media)
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 07: generic, retirement, seniors , pension, old age, superannuation, nest egg on January 7, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Glenn Hunt/Fairfax Media)

Australians make up barely 0.3 per cent of the world's population and yet hold $2.1 trillion in pension savings -- the world's fourth-largest such pool. Those assets are viewed as a measure of the country's wealth and economic resilience, and seem to guarantee a high standard of living for Australians well into the future.