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Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... on the average REST member. So it's lower cover addressing the overinsurance problem earlier in life, that builds through ages 20 and 30 and is [then] higher through the 40s and 50s - matching member needs at different life stages," said Damian Hill ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... any other bad news that has not been factored into the market -- short of speculating that we are headed back to the Middle Ages? While financial and economic downturns are painful - as we are all experiencing now, they are a healing process. When we ...

Less claims, more benefits: ANZ Super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... premium rates for death and TPD cover by 1 October. Premium rates for Section A members will reduce by 25 per cent at all ages for its Section A members, while staff between ages 45 and 60 under Section C will receive a 30 per cent discount. Meanwhile ...

AGEST quadruples cash option to $400m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
The $3 billion government superannuation fund AGEST Super is tightening its purse strings on new mandates and has quadrupled its cash option to $400 million in less than nine months. According to Michael Seton, AGEST Super chief executive, the fund's ...

AXA super tops league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Amid the worst super fund returns on record, AXA Australia has broken through the field as the surprise top performer with a stunning positive 4 per cent from its Tailored Super and Simple Super employer funds, almost 11 per cent ahead of the market ...

Record jobless rate not feeding a wage spiral

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... with 2.7 per cent for women. Workers aged 25 to 34 had the biggest wage rise expectations of 7.5 per cent, while across all ages people on individual contracts had wage rise expectations of 4.8 per cent. The survey compared indivual employees in May ...

Tax relief will drive insurance cover

... employee is in a fund by default, the fund is required to provide minimum death cover of a very modest $50,000 at younger ages while there is no requirement for disability cover at all. An adequate cover should be in the hundreds of thousands depending ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... respond to these pressures, SSC said governments will have to - in various combinations - lower benefits, raise retirement ages and possible even link member longevity to the value of their benefits. Illustrating the extent of looming public pension ...

Club Plus takes the reins

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... including an 80/20 high growth fund for members below 30 years of age, a growth/balanced 70/30 fund for those between the ages of 30 and 45 and 60/40 balanced option for members aged 45 and over. "We're trying to do the best by our members. Young people ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... released just prior to the federal election campaign. Despite the reaction, there is a global trend to raising retirement ages. Explaining why, Giles Archibald, Mercer's global head of international retirement service, said, "the twin pressure of increasing ...