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FPA advocates for reduced pension minimums

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... planner, such as through government fees and charges, cost-recovery levies and increases to professional indemnity insurance premiums, and the impact they have on the affordability of advice.

Group premiums rise 34%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
Members of Defence Bank Super and Crescent Wealth Super have been notified their insurance premiums will increase 34%, after TAL advised it would increase premium rates. The funds informed members the changes were as a result of recent legislative changes ...

Cbus overhauls insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
Cbus is changing the way it calculates insurance premiums, with members set to pay more for death and TPD insurance cover. From April 1, Cbus members' insurance premiums will be based on their age in a move designed to more closely reflect what it costs ...

Industry fund bumps up premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
Members of a $25 billion industry superannuation fund are set to pay higher insurance premiums from April 1, with some paying up to 20% more for death and TPD. VicSuper has notified members their insurance premiums are increasing as a result of the ...

AMP faces fresh class action

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... Litigation Funding. Woodsford has also bankrolled the class action against Colonial First State over "excessive" insurance premiums on super products, announced late last month. Shine Lawyers head of litigation and loss recovery, Jan Saddler, said AMP ...

Problems persist with PYSP communication: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... some concerning factors. "Overall the review was relatively positive, however, when call centre staff say that insurance premiums are not paid from your back pocket it shows a lack of understanding of the customer-value-proposition of super," Ross said. ...

SMSF data misleading: BGL

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... ascertained that ASIC's calculation of the average cost of running an SMSF includes Australian and overseas interest, insurance premiums, forestry managed scheme expenses, investment expenses and something called 'other amounts' - these expenses only ...

Class action accuses CFS of dodgy insurance fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... action against Colonial First State alleging that hundreds of thousands of Australians were charged excessive insurance premiums. The action alleges CFS, as Commonwealth Bank's superannuation provider, put members into policies with CommInsure and that ...

Free advice for bushfire victims

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... waiver form paying AMP life, total and permanent disability, trauma, income protection and business expenses insurance premiums. The package also includes the earl release of superannuation funds to help with expenses, but only for those whom the ATO ...

MLC Life Insurance under review

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... subsidiaries in its business, with the majority based in the US and Japan. MLC Life brings in around $1.9 billion in insurance premiums each year, with around $5.8 billion in total gross assets, as of 31 December 2018. In May, Financial Standard reported ...