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Individual cover through super, key to insurance recovery

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
The real opportunity for the insurance industry lies in encouraging consumers to enhance their default life risk cover within their superannuation, MetLife and Financial Services Council (FSC) research has concluded. "The real challenge for the industry ...

QSuper unveils 'industry first' lifecycle product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... date. QSuper chief executive Rosmary Vilgan said: "There has been little change to the 'one-size-fits-all' approach to default options in this country in the last 20 years, despite significant policy changes like the increase in contribution rate from ...

Instos lose chasing high hedge fund returns

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... European countries, including the UK. It is free to invest right across the capital structure including equity, debt, credit default swaps and options. It will soft-close shortly - a precautionary step fund managers take to prevent overheating - but ...

AustralianSuper insurance premiums to rise by 35%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... across the board," Schroder said. He added that Australia's largest super fund was also "thinking about the right level of default cover for new members" following the increase of claims and the losses suffered by insurers. AustralianSuper was working ...

FEATURE: Insuring against longevity risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Actuaries Institute have all been vocal proponents of developing a more sophisticated retirementA income space. So far the default answer to the problem of retirement income has been the allocated pension which is the accumulation phase in reverse. Superannuants ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... from 1% to 2% in the next 2-3 months. News over the weekend was that the PBOC did it again... it allowed a corporate bond default - the first since the Chinese central bank started supervising and regulating the bond market in 1997. The PBOC just watched ...

MySuper authorisations reaches 117

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... speculation that several major corporate master trusts are remaining in the employer super market as choice select rather than default funds as so require employees to actively choose them.

Instos bring ESG perspective to ASX companies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... risk because something's going to come up and fall apart five or 10 years down the track." She said that boards - and by default their big investors - need to get more involved issues such as environmental and social impact, which are currently more ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... highlighting the political differences between the two sides. Under the current awards regime, employers must choose a default superannuation fund from a limited list. For example, employers who fall under the 'Building and Construction General On-site ...

BT reveals post-awards strategy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... Westpac Group business banking clients with our superannuation offer," she said. Currently BT's "corporate" (i.e. employer default) super offering is not listed in any modern award, which Doyle put down to the complicated application process required. ...