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Insurance in super is confusing: Consumers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... upset they cannot get guidance specific to their circumstances, an ASIC report shows. A third of unadvised superannuation fund members participating in ASIC's research into member experience when making changes to insurance arrangements reported feeling ...

Underinsurance gap worsens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The underinsurance gap has broadened compared to three years ago, new Rice Warner research finds. Over the last 18 months, a slew of government regulation as well as unforeseen circumstances have contributed to more Australians being underinsured. This ...

Give the people advisers: Retirement Income Review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The first comprehensive review of Australia's retirement system has acknowledged that affordable financial advice is what people need to navigate the retirement system. After the Royal Commission exposed deep flaws in Australia's financial advice ...

Treasury expected to release retirement review

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
Nearly four months after Treasury received the Retirement Income Review's final report, it is expected to be released to the public tomorrow. An independent three-person panel of Treasury veteran Mike Callaghan, former Future Fund board member and ...

New trustee for Spaceship

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... members. Spaceship is currently administered under the Tidswell Master Superannuation Plan, a public offer superannuation fund. Diversa is part of the same group as Tidswell. Tidswell, Diversa and CCSL were previously owned by the now-defunct Sargon ...

Aussies reunited with $1bn in lost super

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
Around $1 billion worth of lost and unclaimed superannuation has been reunited with its rightful owners. The Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA) estimates 700,000 Australians will receive lost super after super funds have sent ATO's latest consolidating ...

Spaceship launches new managed fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... is the third fund in Spaceship Voyager, its $225 million managed funds offering outside of the $350 million superannuation fund. Spaceship Earth Portfolio will invest in stocks that advance one or more UN Sustainable Development Goals agenda, and will ...

Super fund increases premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
A $117 billion superannuation fund is changing the cost of insurance across the board at the turn of the New Year. Most QSuper members will see income protection cover go up 31%, while death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover will increase ...

Former adviser pleads guilty to stealing client funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
A former financial adviser has pleaded guilty to misappropriating $2.9 million of client funds by transferring the money to his own accounts for personal use. Ross Hopkins from NSW, appeared at the Downing Centre Local Court, where he pleaded guilty ...

Successor fund transfer finalised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... concluded that member interests will be better served by transitioning to Sunsuper, a large multi-industry superannuation fund, rather than continuing the plan in its current form," IAG & NRMA Superannuation Plan told members. Current insurance for IAG ...