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Kinetic Super improves insurance offering

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
Industry super fund Kinetic super is upgrading its insurance offering to maximise members' insurance protection at times when they can afford it and reduce it or switch it off when they can't. The upgrades, aimed at the recruitment industry and Australia's ...

BGL partners with Link for automation

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
BGL Corporate Solutions is partnering with Link Market Services to release the first SMSF administration software that automatically reconciles listed security holding balances with share registries. The Simple Fund 360 software will use registry data ...

Super reforms hit parliament

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
A Bill containing key amendments to the 2016 Federal Budget including changes to transition to retirement pensions and pooled super trusts has been tabled in parliament. According to IOOF's head of technical services Martin Breckon, the amendments are ...

Super insurance must be standardised: ISWG

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
The Insurance in Superannuation Working Group is pushing to standardise how super funds communicate life insurance information to members. In its third discussion paper released today, the working group highlights three in ten Australians have no clue ...

Asteron Life rewards healthy lifestyles

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... entertainment and travel purchases, and discounts on eligible insurance premiums. TAL Health Sense: Fit for Life provides an automatic discount of 7.5% for clients who fit within a specific BMI range and up to 15% with bundled products. "We believe TAL ...

CGT top of adviser minds

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... changes to the tax treatment of transition to retirement (TTR) pensions. It's important to keep in mind CGT relief is not automatic and the client must choose, where eligible, the investments on which to apply the relief, Howard said. "Advisers are looking ...

ASIC cancels suspended AFSL

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Parramatta-based company Rural & General Insurance Broking for failing to comply with legal obligations and licence conditions. The regulator found the company failed to lodge annual financial ...

ANZ trials voice biometrics

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
ANZ will be the first Australian bank to introduce voice biometrics for higher value transactions on mobile devices. From the middle of this year, customers transferring more than $1000 through ANZ's mobile apps will be able to use their voice to automatically ...

Barclays fined following ASIC investigation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... "Entities that fail to self-report a breach of their obligations to ASIC within the required time will be subject to automatic and indefinite exclusion from the licensing exemption provided by these instruments."

ATO payroll system tracking unpaid super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
The Australian Taxation Office is tackling the growing $3.6 billion unpaid super problem with its Single Touch Payroll (STP) system that closely monitors employers' inability to pay superannuation entitlements, with the first phase due to roll out on ...