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Longevity driving interest in risk pooled products

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
A combination of longer life expectancy and poor returns from volatile markets is driving more investors to reassess their retirement and life insurance products, according to Milliman. Milliman, a global provider of actuarial products and services ...

Federation Alliance launches Federation Super

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... retirement objectives. "Federation Super's estate planning features include reversionary and non-lapsing binding death benefit nominations, and it provides access to a selection of insurers for retail individual life insurance policies." David Bryant ...

Government releases draft life insurance regulations

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
The Government has released an exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment (Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements) Regulation 2016 bill. The amended regulation allows temporary inclusion of stamp duty in commissions for death benefits while the ...

HLB Mann Judd launches estate planning

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... estate planning was an entirely different area to managing superannuation. "I would assume just keeping up with the death benefit nominations for super funds and dealing with members - by getting a copy of the will and writing to every single beneficiary ...

SMSFs impacted by power of attorney rule changes

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... are not uncommon in the SMSF context but are likely to involve such a conflict are: the attorney making a binding death benefit nomination for the principal (as member of a super fund) in favour of the attorney;A the attorney amending the nomination ...

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... husband and wife who had been separated for a short period of time but not altered their wills, superannuation binding death benefit nominations, or legal title to non-estate assets. The couple owned their home as joint tenants and had binding death ...

Mercer unveils longevity insurance product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... death or withdrawal will slowly diminish. Once they have received 95% of their original investment, they receive no death benefit. However, they continue to receive an income until they die. Mercer estimated that a member with a super balance of $400,000 ...

Insurance through super saves $403 million

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... of the total size of insurance cover across the community, group insurance within super represents 71% of total death benefit sums insured, 88% of overall total and permanent disablement (TPD) sums insured and 59% of income protection monthly benefits. ...

Tribunal sees rise in super admin complaints

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Complaints Tribunal (SCT) for the June 2014 quarter. Of the complaints received 38.6% related to administration with death benefit complaints making up the second-largest category at 34%. This quarter also saw an increase in complaints to the SCT, with ...

Govt begins long-awaited retirement income review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
The government has launched its much-anticipated review of Australia's underdeveloped retirement income industry with the release of a comprehensive discussion paper. The 21-page paper discusses measures to overhaul the entire regulatory regime of the ...