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ASIC explores value for money in default group insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... found to be partly due to different levels of cover, but also other factors including the average risk level of the membership and the generosity of terms and conditions. The regulator also identified that different cohorts of members seem to be receiving ...

UniSuper wins in court judgement on board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... come from about 11 unions, of CPSU and NETU are two of these 11, representing 0.35% and 5.9% of UniSuper's total membership of 472,785 Australians. CPSU represents "non-teaching and non-academic staff" while NTEU represents "academic staff and general/professional ...

Advice associations join forces

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... Tax & Super Australia (TSA) in a bid to have a louder voice when lobbying for the industry. The alliance will have a membership base of 10,000 with 4000 tax and superannuation members from TSA and 6000 adviser members from AIOFP. In a note to members ...

ASIC to improve default insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... assessed what assumptions trustees made about members and how they determined that the default was appropriate for their membership. There was "significant variation in the sophistication of trustees' assumptions" and factors into consideration when ...

ASIC cancels two AFSLs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... Selectinvest. ASIC said it cancelled the licence because Selectinvest failed to maintain its external dispute resolution membership with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), and had failed to lodge its annual financial and audit reports ...

FPA announces 2020 award winners

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... impact on his clients and work in the community through the charity, Leading Youth Forward. "Zacary exemplifies our FPA membership as a modern professional financial planner who is client dedicated, university educated and an experienced CFP professional. ...

AFCA pivots to member experience

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... Financial Complains Authority (AFCA) is placing a higher emphasis on member experience following an increase in its membership base, two years on from its launch. In its first two years, AFCA's membership has grown to 40,000 members across the financial ...

WA Super provides merger update

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... with Aware Super, confirming its solutions will transfer on December 3. Members of WA Super have been notified their membership with Aware Super will commence from December 4, with their accounts to transfer on the day prior. The two super funds first ...

Retail super offerings in successor fund transfer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... associated with administering superannuation funds," Diversa said. "... the outcome of this would be your inclusion and membership in a stronger, larger fund structure that will be better placed to help provide economies of scale into the future." The ...

Super reforms modest negative for AMP, IOOF: Credit Suisse

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... which tend to have very small balances which is the key driver of IFL and AMP's revenues (unlike LNK where it is membership). This means that the impact of the reforms will likely be minimal in the next few years with any negative impacts quite long ...