Associate Professor Benedict Koh, Co-Director of the Centre for Silver Security at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics commented that reasons for the low take-up rate for the CPF cited in the academic literature include the need for liquidity or cash flow; desire for control over savings; lack of financial knowledge or simply inertia.

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