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LGsuper expands options

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... half-yearly and annual payment options. Pension payment dates have also been changed to the 28th of each month. Meanwhile death benefit payments have undergone a revamp. Until March this year, LGsuper's trust deed required the fund's board of directors ...

NAB Super introduces binding death benefits

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Members of the $3.1 billion corporate fund NAB Group Superannuation Fund can now apply for binding death benefit nominations. The fund, which said in March that it was considering introducing the benefit, are now allowing members to provide the fund ...

AvSuper revamps death insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
The $1 billion aviation industry super fund AvSuper has introduced anti-detriment provisions to members' death benefits. Launched at the start of this year, AvSuper announced anti-detriment provisions will now apply to the death benefits paid to a spouse ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
AvSuper has sought to clarify the fund is not a government super fund after receiving phone calls from members regarding the government's move to merge three government super funds to form a single trustee board. This follows a government announcement ...

Zurich urges superannuation reform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... beneficiary groups. The report found people that aren't the member's spouse or child may not receive the member's death benefit. "The unfairness lies in the treatment of non-dependant who are subject to taxation, whereas those paid to certain dependants ...

Once lost, now found: super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
Australians still have a gigantic $12 billion in lost super but a concerted effort by the government, regulators and wealth management industry is slowly reducing the amount of misplaced retirement savings. AUSfund for one has returned nearly $40 million ...

New super book for indigenous mob

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
The federal government welcomed the new edition of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) indigenous superannuation booklet, Super and Us Mob. Created in 2006, the free booklet uses real life work examples of indigenous people to ...

Remarried war vet widows get pension

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
Widows and widowers of war veterans who might have had their pensions stopped after they remarried are now able to access their funds again under new government rules. According to the $3 billion Military Super, the Superannuation Act 1922, the Defence ...

ASFA supports same sex super bill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... backing the government's proposal to change the law and allow same sex couples to access a partner's superannuation death benefit easier and more tax effectively. In its submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs ...