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Public servants caught in SG bungle

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
A government agency has botched superannuation benefit payments spanning a decade, affecting more than 56,000 employees who are owed tens and millions of dollars. The Northern Territory government owes about $39.5 million in superannuation contributions ...

Rest increases admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Members of the $54 billion industry super fund will see their administration fees go up next month and will no longer see the benefit of tax deductions related to insurance premiums. Rest has notified members their admin fees will rise from November ...

Super SA hires former Elders manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Government fund Super SA has appointed a former Elders regional manager to head up its financial advice offering. Allan Ward has been appointed as senior manager financial advice at the fund. He was previously the regional manager for Elders Financial ...

Chant West head of client development to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Chant West's head of client development will retire from the role after about four and a half years at the company. Geoff Peck was responsible for sales and service of new and existing clients at Chant West. He also worked on developing new tools ...

Legacy AMP Life policyholders take premium hit

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
Some retail AMP Life customers received a steep premium increase on their income protection policies recently. Customers in a legacy product from the life insurer were notified by letter or email that following a review of premiums, they would be paying ...

OnePath takes over group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
OnePath has won a group insurance mandate for a well-known football association, replacing Resolution Life. The AFL Players Association (AFLPA), which represents male, female and past player members, has appointed Zurich-owned OnePath to take over from ...

Societe Generale fined over client breaches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
The French bank's Sydney operation has become the second company in Australia in as many months to be criminally prosecuted over breaching client money obligations. Societe Generale pleaded guilty to four counts of client money obligation breaches in ...

Industry fund hikes income protection premiums

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
Ahead of its proposed merger with Cbus, Media Super has announced an increase in insurance premiums for default and non-default income protection. The premiums will increase from 1 December 2020 and will apply to members who receive automatic default ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
The numbers may be better than market expectations but they still don't diminish the fact that Australia's labour market remains weak. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's unemployment rate increased to 6.9% in ...

Chief economist update: Money buys happiness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
Happy consumer makes the economy grow stronger. The result of the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey disproves the aged-old adage that "money doesn't buy happiness". Australian consumer sentiment surged by 11.9% to a reading ...