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AIA renews commitment with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
AIA Australia has renewed its partnership with Mental Health Foundation SuperFriend for five more years. SuperFriend is a national initiative that aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of "all profit to member" superannuation fund members ...

Australian Unity expands healthcare property trust

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... $45.85 million. These are a Kent Town (SA) healthcare property, a building in Townsville (QLD) to be converted to a mental health facility and the Brisbane Waters Private Hospital on the Central Coast (NSW). "The HPT's development pipeline is as active ...

Equip Super partners with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
Equip Super has partnered with SuperFriend to offer workplace mental health and wellbeing programs. The industry super fund has added the programs to its range of employer and member services, which focuses on forging alliances that can broaden the ...

Australian Unity adds Townsville property to healthcare fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... its Healthcare Property Trust. The property is an office building that AUREI is proposing to convert into a 60 bed mental health hospital. Health Care Australia is intending to then lease the property for 22.5 years and the development of the brownfields ...

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. ...