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Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... why this was. SuperFriend chief executive Margo Lydon said: "The SuperMIND research reinforces the reality that mental health and wellbeing is a risk management issue not just for super funds and their insurers but for government employers and the broader ...

Simplify your products, life insurers told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... underwriting decisions. However, Laughlin conceded the current crisis wasn't all the fault of life companies. "The issue of mental health impacting disablement claims for example is a factor that the industry can't necessarily have a great influence ...

FSC Conference: Follow the biopsychosocial model, life companies told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... behind initiatives to prevent health problems and encourage employees back into work, particularly those relating to mental health, such as SuperFriend. The FSC today announced it had signed up to Health Benefits of Work position paper. Read all Financial ...

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... directors, those involving manipulation such as oral surgeons or professions based on social perception such as mental health workers, clergy or nurses. Loan officers top the list, with a 98% probability of being computerised, followed by receptionists ...

Life insurers need more 'wise old heads': APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... Laughlin explored a number causes, including competition driving premiums too low, changing social attitudes toward mental health, and the role of lawyers. But he also said super fund trustees have a role to play in ensuring their members don't get bad ...

MLC GM to chair community foundation, focuses on mental health

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... Australian communities by investing in key areas of need and employee interest and, in particular, improving the mental health of Australians. Bourguignon, who is general manager of MLC Group Insurance and managing director of Plum, joined MLC in 1999. ...

Industry bodies clash over pension age

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... are either unable to work at all, or can no longer perform the roles they have been working in, due to physical or mental health-related concerns," ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said. Vamos added that an increase could also potentially push people ...

AIA tackles spike in mental illness-related claims

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... the life insurance industry. The paper was produced with SuperFriend, a not-for-profit foundation that promotes mental health in the industry superannuation sector. While the paper focuses on employee wellbeing, the timing of the launch tells a different ...

MediaSuper makes moves on mental health, joins SuperFriend

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Industry super fund Media Super has become the 18th fund to join SuperFriend, the Industry Funds Forum Mental Health Foundation. SuperFriend is a national initiative aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of industry superannuation fund ...

Insurers and super funds tackle costs of mental illness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
Insurers are forking out millions every year on mental health-related claims but it needn't be that way, according to Margo Lydon, chief executive of SuperFriend. SuperFriend, a mental health promotion foundation started by industry superannuation funds ...