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Level premiums to remain

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... Advisers Conference, MLC chief of life insurance Sean McCormack said he doesn't believe APRA's changes will represent the "death knell" of level premiums as Australians still have insurance needs over the long term. "The whole basis of level premium ...

Hostplus freezes premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... freeze for members. The $48 billion super fund has secured a three-year freeze, which will maintain the current rate of death and total and permanent disability premiums with its group insurer MetLife. A spokesperson for Hostplus confirmed the premium ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
The rise of a small handful of growth stocks is creating a distortion and obscuring the true performance of value investing in global markets, according to Realindex. In a research paper titled Value is dead, long live value, Realindex quantitative ...

ClearView pushes ahead with SFT

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... day-to-day adviser arrangements will continue as normal," ClearView wrote. LifeSolutions Super holds policies such as accidental death, total and permanent disability (TPD), accidental TPD, income protection and income protection plus, for ClearView ...

BT cuts fees, premiums for super members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... arrangements to ensure they continue to meet the needs of our members," BT said. BT Super members with essential cover for death and TPD will enjoy a premium decrease of 8.4%. Those with BT Super Lifetime Insurance death and TPD cover will have a decrease ...

REI Super ups insurance premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... Putting Members' Interest First legislation. Insurance premiums for REI Super members eligible for standard rates on death and total and permanent disability (TPD) will increase from $1.66 a week to $2.12 a week. Death only cover for those members ...

Calls for aged care overhaul

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... informed and supported choice control, universal access to reasonable supports, equity and dignity, including dignity in death. "A new system, based on the rights of older people, will look very different from the provider-centric system Australia has ...

Chief economist update: Winter of Europe's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... coming of the coronavirus hits the continent. There must be something to the claims that weather plays a part in the life, death and transmission of the virus. The Advisory Board published an article at the onset of the pandemic (26 March 2020) stating ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
Like the Energizer bunny, the price of iron ore keeps on going and going and going... up. And this, despite the coronavirus pandemic still doing the rounds on Earth - ongoing first wave or second wave - with worldometer.com's latest stats showing ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
For the fourth year in a row, Australia has ranked in the top 10 countries in the world for retirement outcomes but the impact of the pandemic will be felt for some time, new research from Natixis Investment Managers shows. Australia nabbed the seventh ...