Retirement commissioner re appointed for second term

Wrightson says she is pleased to be reappointed and says there’ll be plenty to do, starting with her plan on recruiting a chief operating officer so she can reduce her executive hours to concentrate more on governance-level strategy and policy.

“I will also be creating an advisory board next year and want to work more on bedding in the National Strategy for Financial Capability – it needs to be the industry’s strategy as well as ours – and encouraging a principled and balanced discussion around NZ Super.

We’ll hopefully also be able to give Sorted a facelift. And I’ll be looking at the NZ Super settings, especially considering an increasing mobile population, to see if some aspects need to be updated.”

In her first term, Wrightson says it was a challenging time coming into the fincap sector with no prior experience but she is grateful for everyone who helped her navigate her way.