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Research house launches direct ratings system

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... products that offer better value for money, including maximum premium guarantees, premium caps and the accidental death benefit available, among other criteria," the company said. Products are given star ratings from one to five based on an assessment ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... because they look at the yield and they see it's too low; it's not that they don't want to buy because there's no death benefit; it's bloody expensive. Make it cheaper. "How do you make it cheaper? By putting in a contingency that says it only pays out ...

NGS Super lifts premiums for older members

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... death and TPD premium will increase threefold, from $2.16 to $6.86. However, the same 40-year-old will receive a death benefit of $550,000, a significant improvement on the current $240,000. Laura Wright, NGS Super's general manager, said that, while ...

Young clients also looking for aged care advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... something happens, they can call us and that we will have everything under control," she added. Brown set up binding death benefit nominations as part of the holistic advice she gave to the couple. Brown is the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) ...

Death and TPD dominate Super Complaints Tribunal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal in the December quarter related to death and disability insurance claims. Death benefit disputes made up 32.2% of complaints, while disability related disputes, including those over total and permanent disability ...

Bad estate planning advice is getting clients in trouble

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... good estate planning can save a lot of money." Stoddart explained that the most common problems are invalid binding death benefit nominations because they are undated or not witnessed properly. "The nomination has to be in writing, appropriately signed ...

MetLife poised to enter DLA market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... said deferred income annuities (DIAs) that provide more flexibility in when they commence, as well as some sort of death benefit, have proved more popular over the last two years in the US. Regarding the Australian market, Arora said there needs to be ...

Govt to index military age pensions

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
The government has announced it will 'triple index' age pensions for retired non-veteran military personnel. The reform follows several Senate inquiries and already implemented reforms to retirement benefits for combat and disabled veterans. The Minister ...

Avoid estate planning mistakes

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... have been made for superannuation to become part of the estate. This can be done, though, by making a valid binding death benefit nomination naming the legal personal representative as beneficiary, she said. Hacker also said that it is worth keeping ...

Make sure the right people inherit your super

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
With death benefit disputes accounting for the lion's-share of complaints received by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, Topdocs has now incorporated a death benefit guardian provision in its SMSF trust deeds. The specialist self-managed superannuation ...